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contention, which have been sown in the ground of jurisdiction and thereby all causes which have ever been fruitful in creating irritating excitements, would be eradicated. As to the interest of the claimants of Georgia, in the lands proposed to be reserved to the Cherokees, it can be extinguished on far more reasonable terms, than the Cherokee title to the same: there can be no difficulty as to this point, the largest portion of these lands, are in reality, so very poor, that the drawers will never take grants out of the office for them, even if the Cherokees were to surrender their title to them. Now, Sir, it is confidently hoped that there can be no objection raised to an adjustment based on so reasonable a proposition as this. From the earliest existence of this government, General Washington, whose sagacity was ever equal to his benevolence & magnanimity, foresaw the practicability of civilizing & christianizing the aborigines of this country. He laid the foundation for it, and HE, under the authority of the United States, patronized it: and his footsteps have been followed by his illustrious successors: and, although the sceptic's voice within a late period has been heard proclaiming against the practicability of its accomplishment, yet the day has arrived when this point has been given up. Adopt the proposition herein submitted; let peace & tranquility be restored, and academies & colleges established & churches be reared, amongst the Cherokees, and in the train of the herdsman, the farmer, the mechanic, the merchant & the clergy, will soon follow, the statesman, in a word, the Spectacle of a civilized & christianized community of Cherokees will be exhibited before the world, that will bear a comparison with any other community. Would not such a community of the aboriginal descendants of this continent, then, be worthy of that common privilege which has ever been graciously conferred on the outcasts of the European shores, whose lot it has been to seek an asylum under the tree of liberty, of becoming free citizens of the United States? Would they not be worthy a place in the martial ranks of the bulwark of your country when arrayed in the defense of