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pretention of any right on the part of any state to interfere in the slightest manner with these regulations. That Congress had been continually passing laws for the regulation of this intercourse, and that the State of Georgia herself had acknowledged this power, not only in her capacity of a member of the federal union, by concurring in these treaties & laws, but by repeated acts of her own separate legislature. They then shew that the law of Georgia, under which Messr Worcester & Butter had been arrested & sentenced, was in direct conflict with all these treaties and laws, made under the authority of the Constitution, since it obliterates the boundary established by these treaties, and consolidates the territory guaranteed to the Cherokees, with the terrotory with the State of Georgia, calling & treating the Cherokee Territory as part of the ungranted territory of the State, it breaks down all the fences & guards, placed around the Cherokees, by all these treaties & laws of the United States, to defend them against the intrusion of the Whites, and opens the whole territory to the licentious intrusion of the civil & military officers of Georgia, in direct contravention of these treaties and laws; and, finally, it abolishes entirely the separate political existence of these people, acknowledged & sanctioned as it has been by the uniform current of all these treaties & laws, it tears them from the protection of the United States, it converts the Cherokees, by force, into citizens of Georgia, disfranchised, however, of some of the most valuable rights of citizenship, and subjects them, on that very territory which these treaties & laws had declared to be their own separate property and guaranteed to them as such, to the arbitrary legislation of the State of Georgia, in whose legislature they are not even represented. From this simple sketch of the course of argument maintained by the Supreme Court, the reader will be able to judge whether that tribunal had not reason in declaring the law of Georgia repugnant to the Constitution, treaties and laws of the United States, and, therefore, null and void. Now