This stirred Mr.Webster, although slow to anger, to a determination to carry through the reference at all hazards.

He said:-- "He would tell the gentleman from Georgia that if there were rights of the Indians which the United States were bound to protect, that there were those in the House and in the country who would take their part.

If we have bound ourselves by any treaty to do certain things, we must fulfil such obligation.

High words will not terrify us, loud declamation will not deter us from the discharge of that duty.

In my own course in this matter I shall not be dictated to by any State or the representative of any State on this floor.