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corner stone of the writer's argument. If this fabric falls. Such sentiments, we are persuaded, can find no countenance, at the bar of your august assemblies. The writer having avowed his principles proceeds to describe the doings of his party. He says, "we sounded the alarm, we called in the authorities of the nation, -- we asked, we entreated, we implored. But, we were met at the very threshold, as the enemies of our country: and the same system of opposition, has been waged against us to this day". -- Now, with submission we would ask, what does all this prove? Assuredly, that the current of public opinion was against them: that they were, indeed, a small minority; opposed to the will of the people. That "a vast majority were opposed to them:" that the sentiments of the people are unchanged to this day: and that they were not empowered to act on our behalf. The writer labors to mark a distinction between the views of the people and the views of those whom, with supercilious contempt, he quotes as "the constituted authorities of the nation." The latter he charges with "closing the avenues by which the people could be reached." -- with "acting under cover of the will of the people:" stigmatizing them as "Mr Ross & his friends," and similar epithets. But it is a failure. The people well know who faithfully represent their views & sustain their interests. The truth is, the opinions expressed by these same contemned authorities, are identical with the sense of the whole Cherokee community. It would be well for the world, if the rules & people of all nations, were bound to each other, by ties as cordial and confidence as reciprocal and sincere, as those which bind together the authorities and people of the Cherokee nation. The writer complains of the continuance of the Cherokee Phoenix, after he had pronounced it of no further use: -- Also, that his successor refused to insert a communication