Georgia was engaged in oppressing and robbing the Creek Indians, in open contempt of the treaties and obligations of the United States.

Mr.Adams sent in a message reciting the facts and hinting pretty plainly that he intended to carry out the laws by force unless Georgia desisted.

The message was received with great wrath by the Southern members.

They objected to any reference to a committee, and Mr.Forsyth of Georgia declared the whole business to be "base and infamous," while a gentleman from Mississippi announced that Georgia would act as she pleased.

Mr.Webster, having said that she would do so at her peril, was savagely attacked as the organ of the administration, daring to menace and insult a sovereign State.