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and their country, he proceeds next to discuss the question, whether this general controlling authority over the Indians is vested in the federal government, or in the government of the States, and conducts himself with equal self-complacency, to the conclusion that it belongs to the State governments. Finally, he comes to the treaties, and at this staggering point, the argument which had manifestly faltered at the Constitution, becomes dark and unintelligible to us, though, no doubt, extremely luminous and satisfactory to the State of Georgia and to the President of the United States. From a chaos of ideas, in which we have found it extremely difficult to keep even a dim sight of the writer, he emerges at length, to the conclusions, first, that if these treaties are incompatible with the right of Georgia to govern the Cherokees, the treaties themselves are unconstitutional; but, secondly, that these treaties may be maintained with perfect good faith, and yet leave to the State of Georgia all the rights which she asserted over the Cherokees; than which we will venture to affirm that a more intrepid proposition was never attempted to be maintained by Gorgias of Leontium, or any other of his tribe, in any age of the world. We have thought it proper to lay before the reader this general outline of the author's argument, in order that he may have the entire scheme before him at once, and may understand our own 'whereabout', in the course of the comments which we are about to submit in the several parts of it. Indeed, we feel in some danger of being, ourselves, lost in this extensive Cimmerian forest of ideas