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unclear Neither the intercourse law, nor the laws of the nation could be executed with regard to gambling and the introduction and sale of ardent spirits, and the state laws were not. So that in one sense the doors of morality and good order were closed, and the flood gates of iniquity set wide open by state authorities, and the most daring wickedness perpetrated with impunity.

    The desire of the Cherokees to become farmers, in accordance with the advice of the President of the United States, and to live here, at least till they could make some advances in husbanding, was deemed stubbornness and an insufferable affront to those who desired their land. On this account every exertion was made to get the  whole nation away to early as AD 1818, the governor of Tennessee adopted a method by which he supposed the entire limits of that state would be cleaned. He encouraged the citizens of the state to come into this part of the nation