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provided for draining the east, by all sorts of artful enticements, of its Cherokee populations. Collaterally with this decoy, arose the prospective law of Georgia, extending her jurisdiction over the Cherokee lands in her vicinage; and the attempt thus to drown the Cherokee government and constitution in a deluge of encroaching power, naturally increased a thousandfold the nation's jealousy of the disaffected within her borders. The Cherokees of the east now began to talk about the ancient law, at which those who had offended among the emigrants were already trembling in the west. Elias Boudinot was then editor of the Cherokee Phoenix and John Ridge was a stirring politician. They were both strenous for the re-proclamation of the law. They demanded that it should be put in writing, which it never yet had been. John Ridge did put it in writing. In the Cherokee Phoenix of October 28, 1829, Elias Boudinot announces the fact as having occurred on "Saturday, Oct: 24." "On motion" says he "of Choonughee of Chickamauga District, an old law, making death the penalty for selling any lands in treaty, without the authority of the nation, was committed to writing. The bill was