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The principles of our system of jurisprudence, are peculiarly well adapted to the [animalous] condition, in which the nation is placed. The whole is well suited, the tribe the improvement, already made, and to stimulate them to further advances in civilization. But the adoption of a Constitution, and especially one of such a characterisitc; and the firm and judicious advanced [bear] of the [chewkec] nation toward a permanent and independent government, alarmed the state of [Ecusia]. Complaints were forthwith made by the [Geuyia] representative, in [Congrefs] to John Quincy Adams, then President of the United Sates; and a resolution was introduced before [Concrefs] and a [reput] [prefented] (say in 1828). On the 20th of December, 1828, the state of Georgia [pafred] an act to add to her counties such part of the Cherokee territory as was only entitled to this as property, should the Cherokees part with it, which they were not disposed to do; and among other provisions, the act in question entended the laws of Georgia over the territory so [usurped]. The ground was thus [hihen]