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Federal Government, as to its power & obligation. And thus "the Government of the United States." "thwarted its own ends, and lost its influence over the Cherokee tribe, by the indifference manifested towards its engagements." I have purposely in this extract transposed to this place the mention of another law passed by Georgia, at the same session with those strikeout just spoken of. This was a law, "forbidding the holding of any legislative councils, or Judicial Courts, among the Indians; & the exercise of any official authority on the part of the native chieftains was prohibited, under the penalty of imprisonment; while, with a marked inconsistency, the last section of that law authorized the chieftains to hold communication with the Commissioners of the United States, in order to enable the Federal Government to go on & purchase the Indian territory by treaty."* The period of the Annual Council of 1831 as now approaching x Vol 6. p. 28.