Author: Granger, Amos P.
Title: Remarks of Hon. A.P. Granger of New York, in the House of Representatives, January 21, 1859, on the Bill for the Payment for Indian Depredations on the People of Georgia and Alabama.
Description: (Washington, DC: Buell & Blanchard, Printers, 1859). 1859). - Octavo, pamphlet bound with gray cloth tape between gray boards backed with blue cloth tape with a typed paper label on the front board. The homemade binding is stained & soiled with a piece out of the top corner of the front board. The label is soiled with a piece out of the top right corner. 7 pages plus colophon. 1 signature is detached. The pages are darkened & chipped with some staining to the inner edges. The binding very slightly overlaps the first page of text with loss on the left side of a few letters. Ex-library with a handwritten sticker on the front board & a library pocket partially removed from the inside rear board. Good working copy.

Amos Phelps Granger [1789-1866] was a U.S. Representative from New York and a cousin of Francis Granger. He served as captain in the War of 1812 at Sackets Harbor and on the Canadian border. He was Trustee of the city of Syracuse from 1825 to 1830, and delivered the address of welcome to General Lafayette when he visited Syracuse in 1825.

Granger opposes the payment of compensation to the people of Georgia and Alabama, partly because he says it will lead to many more claims which the Government cannot afford to pay, but also because "..It was the white people, and not the Indians, that were the aggressors..These Indians had a clear and undoubted right to these lands when these depredations commenced. They had held them from time immemorial, long before Columbus was born; and they claimed their title was from God.. Good .

Keywords: AMERICANA; SPEECH; AMOS PHELPS GRANGER; NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE; NATIVE AMERICANS; AMERICAN INDIANS; GEORGIA; ALABAMA; REMARKS OF HON. A. P. GRANGER OF NEW YORK On the bill for the payment for Indian depredations on the people of Georgia and Alabama; NINE

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