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that he had proposed nothing from himself, but had only acted, as he had been defined, for others, and as the medium of their communication.

Major Ridge, as Speaker of the Council, after some little whispered consultation, arose. In the name of the assembly he uttered a most withering denunciation. He told William Macintosh that he had stained himself with eternal infamy and disgrace. He bade him never again to raise his voice in the councils of this nation. He told him he was deposed as a Cherokee Chief and bade him quit the white bench forever.

Macintosh left the Council Ground with out delay. He seemed anxious and uneasy. He ordered his horse at once. He rose twenty five miles that night, to his father-in-law's, at Etowa. The following day he rode his horse sixty miles on his way homeward, and killed it with the fatigue. A memorandum on the back of one of the Cherokee national documents, says of this retreat "Macintosh, with a deep sense of guilt and disgrace, in the utmost dejection of spirit and confusion of mind, with all speed, made a very sudden departure for his country."