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17. The Cherokees

settled in towns over this territory, before a white man ever appeared on these shores and when he did appear and made a Discovery, he only discovered the Cherokees in peaceable possession of a country, given them from the Almighty.

"There is an other question to which the discovery of at the new world has given rise. It is asked if a nation may lawfully take the possession of a part of a vast country in which there are none found but erratic nations incapable by the smallness of their numbers to people the whole?" view Vattel p.158

Our author is of the opinion that such wandering tribes were never designed by nature to exclude other nations from a participation of the benefits of a vast extent of Country, appropriated by the Creator for the subsistence of the human species. He admires the New England puritans who notwithstanding their being furnished with a Charter from their sovereign, purchased of the