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which the people in general did not consider as justified by their instructions. The delegates had exchanged away the nation's first territory in the west, for the less acceptable one where they now are, and had made other conditions equally unsatisfactory. Dutch and John Smith, who have recently espoused the petty faction of agitators against the people, then made themselves the soul of the offended majority. They pursued the delegates, one of whom was John Rogers, now one of their co-adjutors. A western Cherokee at present in the delegation opposed to Rogers, screened him from becoming a victim to the ancient law, by threatening retaliation, if he were harmed, upon the National Committee under whose secret authorization his friends said he had acted. Dutch, in disgust at the whole affair, withdrew with forty followers to Red River; and others whom it had equally annoyed, went into Texas.

9. Perhaps not the least offensive clause of the disliked treaty of the Western Cherokees; -- a clause as disagreable to the Eastern as to the Western citizens; -- was the passage which insidiously provided