Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
Tuesday April 27, 1830

In the Circuit Court of Montgomery (Alabama,) recently a verdict was returned against Opothyoholo and Jim Boy, two chiefs of the Creek nation, by whose authority the plaintiff, James B. Reed, a white citizen of Alabama, had been taken up under the Indian laws, and whipped. The evidence proved the plaintiff to have been tied to a tree by the defendants, and on his naked back received forty lashes with hickories five feet long, and that he swooned under it. The defendants attempted to offer, in mitigation, an order from the sub-agent to commit the act. Verdict, $4,500 damages. – Savannah Georgian.

Submitted by Nancy Piper


Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
March 2 1830

The Southern Indians

We learn by an official dispatch received at the department, that the principal chief of the upper town arrested the mail stage near Montgomery, in Alabama; that he declared that the land was the property of his tribe, and that the stage should not pass over it. He attempted the life of the driver and also of one of the passengers. It is believed that he acted under the advice of some evil disposed white men. We learn that the civil authority of the state has been called to the aid of the contractor, and that the offender is in all probability now in custody. Such, however, is the fruit of the misguided political philanthropy of those who are endeavoring to enlist these poor people in opposition to the administration. U. S. Telegraph.

Submitted by Nancy Piper

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