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thither. The executioners were early on the alert. They sought everywhere. They were presently joined by a party demanding revenge upon Doublehead for having shot a Cherokee on his way thither, in a political quarrel, during which the former had resented a taunt upon his treachery. At length the place of Doublehead's concealment was discovered. Sanders; the colleague of Major Ridge, rushed, with the rest, slily and suddenly into the room where he was in a slumber. Their approach startled him. He sprang up, drew a dirk, caught at a pistol. Rising, the sheet clung to his limbs and clogged his heels. Sanders planted a tomahawk in his skull. The others fell on him and chopped his head to pieces. The death of Doublehead passed without a question and he was buried without a tear, because, observed the Indians, the act of Major Ridge and Sanders was considered by the best men of the nation as just retribution by patriots upon a traitor. John Ridge, in the account given by him of his father to the historian of "The Indian Tribes of North America" represents that "a decree having been privately made that Doublehead should be put to death, Major Ridge