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But if we look at this extraordinary affair in another point of view, it will appear still more strange! It is well known that the poor, unfortunate & suffering Cherokees, being worn out by seven years' cruel oppression, have been compelled to consent to an adjustment of their tormenting and increasing difficulties by treaty with the United States; that Commissioners have been appointed by the President and sent into the nation, to bring the matter to a point at some suitable time & place, and that the Cherokees had been notified of the same by the President himself, as well as by the Commissioners. Now, in order that the Cherokees might be enabled to meet the Hon. commissioners on fair grounds, it was indispensably necessary that they should know something of the nature & amount of their claims against the General Government. Accordingly, the necessary preliminary arrangements, preparatory to a final settlement of our affairs, were in progress, when, behold! - to our great surprise, we were suddenly interrupted by the Military of Georgia!! - What! Has Georgia become unwilling to have this galling matter settled by Treaty? Strange, indeed! Well, this reminds me of Lorenzo Dow's poetry: 'You shall & you sha'n't You can & you ca'n't You will & you won't You'll be damn'd if you do And be damn'd if you don't' And while we are on the poetic strain we may, with great propriety, add, 'Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.' From the signs of the times it would seem that there was a secret combination of the powers that be, and those that wish to be, to face the dictations of the few upon the many, or, to displace the great & overwhelming majority & to place at the helm of affairs a very insignificant minority as to numbers. And what are the secret springs by which this great & mighty machinery is