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2. Worthington Chauncey Ford, ed., Writings of John Quincy Adams, vol. 6 (New York: Macmillan, 1916), 384.
3. Adams, Memoirs, vol. 4, 108–10, 115.
4. Ford, Writings, vol. 6, 346.
5. Ibid., 306.
6. William Graham Sumner, American Statesmen: Andrew Jackson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899), 104.
7. Adams, Memoirs, vol. 8, 484.
Sequoyah
1. Two notable critics of Sequoyah historiography are John B. Davis, “The Life and Work of Sequoyah,” Chronicles of Oklahoma 8, no. 2 (June 1930): 49–180, and Traveller Bird, Tell Them They Lie: The Sequoyah Myth (Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1971).
2. Samuel C. Williams, “The Father of Sequoyah: Nathaniel Gist,” Chronicles of Oklahoma 15, no. 1 (March 1937): 3–20.
3. Traveller Bird, Tell Them They Lie, 45–46, 113.
4. S. Charles Bolton, “Jeffersonian Indian Removal and the Emergence of Arkansas Territory,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 62, no. 3 (Autumn 2003): 253–71.
5. Thomas Valentine Parker, The Cherokee Indians (New York: Grafton, 1907), 13.
6. American State Papers: Indian Affairs, vol. 2 (Washington, DC: Gales and Seaton, 1834), 145.
7. George E. Foster, Se-quo-yah, the American Cadmus and Modern Moses (Philadelphia: Indian Rights Association, 1885), 106.
8. Daily National Journal (Washington, DC), May 5, 1828; Harold D. Moser et al., The Papers of Andrew Jackson, vol. 3 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991), 52–53.
9. Charles Russell Logan, The Promised Land: The Cherokees, Arkansas, and Removal, 1794–1839 (Little Rock: Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, n.d.), 21.
Stevens T. Mason
1. Quite possibly John Quincy Adams did make this statement, or something much like it. The bill was highly controversial and strongly opposed by Adams, who had returned to Congress after his presidency. Adams’s statement of outrage at the beginning of this chapter has previously been cited in Thomas M. Cooley, Michigan: A History of Governments (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905), 219; Henry M. Utley and Byron M. Cutcheon, Michigan as a Province, Territory, and State, vol. 2 (New York: Publishing Society of Michigan, 1906), 358; Willis F. Dunbar and George S. May, Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdman, 1980), 257; and other sources. None of these sources, however, is a history of Ohio. Ohio historians may be censoring Adams, or they may have excluded the statement because there is no evidence that he said it. Adams did say, “The report of the committee of the Senate simply declares that the committee had no doubt of the right of Congress to settle the disputed boundary conformably to the claim of Ohio. That report, I think I have seen qualified in one of the official documents from the State of Ohio, as a very able report. Yes sir, and this great ability consisted in a simple declaration … of the power of Congress to settle the boundary—but not one iota of argument, nor one single allusion, to any question of right between the parties.” See Congressional Globe, 24th Cong., 1st sess., 2095.
2. The map used was by John Mitchell, Amérique septentrionale avec les routes, distances en miles, villages, et etablissements françois et anglois (Paris: M. Hawkins, Brigardier des armées du roi, 1776).
3. Don Faber, The Toledo War: The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008), 25.
4. Report of the Committee on the Business of the State of Ohio (Feb. 4, 1803), in the Scioto Gazette (Ohio), February 2, 1804.
5. Lewis Cass to Howard Tiffin, November 1, 1817, in T. C. Mendenhall and A. A. Graham, “Boundary Line between Ohio and Indiana, and between Ohio and Michigan,” Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications, vol. 4 (Columbus: Ohio Historical Society, 1895), 161.
6. Over a century later, it was discovered that Congress had never voted specifically on an act to admit Ohio into the Union. In 1953 Congress retroactively admitted Ohio to the Union as of March 1803.
7. Lawton T. Hemans, The Life and Times of Stevens Thomson Mason (Lansing: