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=selves and country a most ruinious [sic: ruinous]) course ; yet you may have been sincerely deceived as to your duty in the very peculiar state of thing you were placed .You say ,you have told me the simple facts, of the case ,which will one day appear to an indisputable evidence and then you ask me "if christian caution will not lead me to reflect that I may condemn the guiltless". this I would most sincerely deprecate .But my dear sir. This is not possible in your case, Since you acknowledge fact,with which I charge you Resistance to the laws of Georgia .You considered yourself under paramount obligation to the Gov't of these United States and therefore say "you and not take the oath required by the

State of Georgia, without violating your previous engagements to the 

United States" And to these you "Submitted as the powers that be" Here my dear Sir ,was your great mistake as I take it .No man is so ameanable to the U.S.Had as to inculpate him in disobeying the laws of the State or teretory in whose bounds he resides .When you entered the Cherokee Nation-It was with the full approbation of both the U.S. and the Cherokee Authorities .And you could have entered in no other way because the U.S. had the general Superintendence of the Teretory and the Indians had the Special or local government in their hands .These were the powers that be, to which you had in seeking your desire among that people to submit.You know the U.S. ? not exercise civil power within the chartered limits of any of the States. While the Indian potity? remained you were bound to submit to it ;but as soon as Geogia put down the indian government and set up her own jurisdiction in its place (within her chartered limits) Then you became subject to the laws of Georgia as a matter of course , and were bound as much to obtain a licence from her authority; as of the indians at your first en