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in the least facilitate the accomplishment of the object aimed at by the State. The Cherokees, conscious of their rights, and strong in the support of public opinion, refused to removed from their territory, or even to treat for its cession. Excited by a conviction of their having been unjustly treated, they regarded the Government of the United States, itself in an unfriendly light, and communicated with its agents only in the shape of complaint & remonstrance. 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 & overthrow, the State Government studiously sought to bring the federal courts 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, was thus defeated by the self-will of strikeout: the a State, permitted & even encouraged to pursue its reckless career, by the novel views adopted by these entrusted with the administration of the Federal