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280 is propelled? - Ah! If I were to guess a thousand times, I would say, shining? arguments, every time, - for these are more potent these times than all the logic Watts & Duncan ever wrote. Is it possible that Gen: Jackson, at whose side the Cherokees fought & bled & died in the field of battle, - & Gov: Lumpkin, who professes to be a disciple of the humane & benevolent Jesus, can glory in the tears & groans & agonies of the unfortunate Cherokees? If not, why keep up such a torturing policy among them? Is it not enough that their government should be demolished & they driven unto the wilderness to perish? - Must they be pursued even unto death? - But it may be that these great men are imposed? upon by designing unclear & aspiring ambitious demagogues,who are hard hearted enough to keep the agonising Cherokees on the rack, for the purpose of lining their own pockets with filthy lucre. I know enough of the Cherokees to know that all they ask of the General Government is to meet them on fair & honorable grounds & settle the matter in a high minded & gentlemanly manner. But if our Father, the President, - his Excellency the Governor, - Mr John Ridge, Major Curry, & the Rev. Hon. Mr Schermerhorn, have undertaken the Herculean task of making the Hon: Mr Ridge, the prophet, priest & King of the Cherokee Nation, in opposition to the almost unanimous wish of the Cherokee people, the present incumbents may have to retire from office, without realising the great desideratum of their reign. We do most solemnly protest against prolonging this vexatious matter for any party or political purposes. - One of the Oppressed .