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in the least facilitate the accomplishment of the object aimed at by the state. The Cherokees, [confious] of their rights, and string in [wppirt] of public [opiuion], reprefused to remove from their territory or even to treat for its [cefrion]. Excitedly or conviction of their having been unjustly treated, they [refurded] the Environment of the United States, itself in an unfriendly light, and communicated with its agent [evily] in the shape of complaint and [temonshame]. In the meantime, the state of Georgia pursued its course regardless of the public opinion of the country. "Convinced that a judicial inquiry into its pretensions would result in their complete refutation and [everthrow], the State Government studiously sought to bring the Federal Court into contempt. "Their authority over the subject was constantly denied, and the legal constitutional mode provided for the peaceable execution of the laws and treaties of the United States, war thus defeated by the [seef] will of a State, permitted and even encouraged to pursue its reckless career, by the novel views adopted by those entrusted with the administration of the Federal