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"This law required all white persons residing in the Cherokee country, to provide themselves with a permit from the Governor, and to take an oath of allegiance to the State, and declared al white persons residing there, without having complied with these requisites, to be punishable with imprisonment in the penitentiary for four years. "Under that law, Samuel Worcester, and five other white persons, who had long ben residents in the Cherokee territory, were arrested by their guard in the month of March and with a serverity entirely uncalled for, were dragged before the Superior Court of [Gwinnett?] county, for refusing to comply with this extraordinary law. "An objection was made to the Constitutionality of the law, but Judge Clayton, before whom they were arranged, decided it to be in conformity with the constitution, and ordered four of the defendants to be bound over to another at the next term of the Court. Mr. Worchester and John Thompson, being missionaries, were discharged on the ground that they were exempted from the operation of the statute, as agents of the