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2 of the alleged stipulations of the pretended treaty of New Ehota, are in justice and equity chargeable to the amount of the United States. --

  And whereas the Cherokee people have existed as a distinct national community, in the possession and exercise of the appropriate and essential attributes of sovereignty, for a period extending into antiquity, beyond the dates and records and memory of man.
  And whereas then attributes, with the rights and franchises which they involve, have never been relinquished by the Cherokee people, but are now in full force and virtue.
  And whereas the natural political and moral relations subsisting among the citizens of the Cherokee nation towards each other and towards the body politic cannot in reason and justice, be dissolved by the expulsion of the nation from its own word lined out, territory, by the power of the United States government. 
  Resolved, therefore, by the national committee and council and people of the Cherokee nation, in general council assembled, that the inherent sovereignty of the Cherokee nation, together with the constitution, laws and usages of the same, are hereby unknown to be in full force and virtue, and shall continue so to be in perpetuity, subject to such modifications as the general welfare may under expedient