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With these views, therefore, Georgia commenced her grinding measures. Setting aside the laws of God and man, and all the principles of eternal Justice, she took for her motto, "Power gives right." In accordance with this principle she disannulled the laws of the nation, stripped the chiefs of their authority, grabbed the notion of civil liberty, i.e. all living in the chartered limits of Georgia Alabama did nearly the same. These measures were supported by what was called the Georgia Guard. The character of this guard has been sufficiently made known, in the history of missionaries whom they dragged to prison.

The legislature of Georgia soon ordered a survey of the country, in direct violation of the intercourse law, and existing treaties with the Cherokees, After this the land was disposed of by lot, and though the Cherokees were not to be dispossessed immediately, yet they were limited to their present improvements, and forbid clearing or occupying any new land, and also forbid employing any white man to assist them in any business whatever. By violating this law, they forfeited their whole improvements, to be taken by the fortunate drawer. Now, as the Cherokees had long been in the habit of showing kindness to white people, and especially to strangers, they could not at once overcome the current of their own feelings so that when a white man came along with his family, and plead necessity, and wished to labour only a few days to get something to carry them farther, the Cherokees could not readily turn him away. And after being un