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24 - crossed out 4 Neither the intercourse law, nor the laws of the nation could be executed with regard to gambling and the introduction and sale of ardent spirits, and the state laws were not. So that in one sense the doors of morality and good order were closed, and the flood gates of iniquity set wide open by state authorities, and the most daring wickedness perpetrated with impunity.

    The desire of the Cherokees to become farmers, in accordance with the advice of the President of the United States, and to live here, at least till they could make some advances in husbanding, was deemed stubbornness and an insufferable affront to those who desired their land. On this account every exertion was made to get the  whole nation away to early as AD 1818, the governor of Tennessee adopted a method by which he supposed the entire limits of that state would be cleared. He encouraged the citizens of the state to come into this part of the nation, and buy improvements of such Cherokees as were willing to go to the west. Thus when an Indian could be found willing to emigrate, the place he hired on was purchased, as individual property. Having once consented to be a rogue, by selling his improvement to white men, in violation of the laws of his country, the Indian could more easily take another step, and being encouraged by the whites to do whatever would best accommodate them, he would sometimes, it was said, look up places where he had fallen a tree, at some previous period, and sell for improvements. Thus one man would introduce many white families, and in a short time the whole time, almost, became peopled with whites. The nation was alarmed at this unlawful and wicked procedure, and sent a delegation to Washington city, who obtained redress, and