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18 -lined out 34 once annulled, and every one left to follow his own inclination with regard to those destructive practices. The country was soon filled with liquor to overflowing, and groceries almost every where established. Here Cherokees could obtain liquor, and cards, and whatever was necessary to secure their destruction, upon credit; and at the same time gamblers were strolling through the country, seeking whom they might devour. Many of the white men who established these whiskey shops, got in with such Cherokees as were engaged in carrying the plans of or Georgia, and afterwards the treaty into effect. Thus these flood gates of iniquity became so connected with governmental purposes, that to oppose them was almost like opposing the designs of the agents of Government. Thus gambling shared like