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the evidence of your attachment to the country is proved by the bill now before your consideration. I am, indeed, told, that the government of the United States will spoil their treaties with us and sink our National Council under their feet. It may be so, but it shall not be with our consent, nor by the misconduct of our people. We hold them by the golden chain of friendship, made when our friendship was worth a price, and if they act the tyrant and kill us for our lands, we shall, in a state of unoffending innocence, sleep with the thousands of our departed people. My feeble limbs will not allow me to stand longer. I can say no more, but, before I sit, allow me to tell you that I am in favor of the bill".

10. This striking speech was carefully translated by John ridge and published in the Cherokee Phoenix by Elias Boudinot. The law itself was also published there soon afterwards. As circumstances have made it a subject of peculiar interest, I transcribe it here. It runs as follows and may be found in the Cherokee Phoenix of January 20, 1830.-- "Whereas a Law has been in existence for many years, but not committed to writing, that if