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McIntosh, having somewhat regained his self [unclear], arose, to stammer out a lame reply. It was broken and agitated; but the substance of it was that he did not wish to force any thing when this nation; that the course they would puruse was entirely at their own option;- that he had proposed nothing from himself, but had only acted, as he had been desired, for others and as this medium of their communications

Major Ridge, as Speaker of the Council, after some little whispered consultation, arose in the name of the assembly, he uttered a most withering denunciation. He told William McIntosh that he had stained himself with eternal infamy and disgrace. he [unclear] him never again to raise his voice in the councils of their nation. He told him he was deposed as a Cherokee Chief and bade him quit the White Bench forever. McIntosh left the council ground without delay.