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determined by the civilized, not by the savage communities." He seems, thus, to take it for granted that the Supreme Court had, in the case of Johnson & McIntosh, left the question open as to the extent of sovreignty acquired by the right of discovery over the Indians. But the Supreme Court did not leave it open; on the contrary, so far as the present controversy is concerned, it was completely closed by the principles established in that hitherto uncontroverted case. They say (page 573-4) "Those relations which were to exist between the discoverers & the natives, were to be regulated by themselves. The rights thus acquired being exclusive, no other power could interpose."