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strikeout: 4 lines McIntosh, having somewhat regained his self possession, arose, to stammer out a lame reply, but It was broken and agitated; but the substance of it was, that he did not wish to force any thing upon the nation; that the course they would pursue was entirely at their own option; -- that he had proposed nothing from himself, but had only acted, as he had been desired, for others and as the medium of their communications. Major Ridge, as Speaker of the Council, after some little whispered consultation, arose. In the name of the assembly, he strikeout: He uttered a most withering denunciation. He told William McIntosh that he had stained himself with eternal infamy and disgrace. He bade him never again to raise his voice in the Councils of the Nation. He told him he was deposed as a Cherokee Chief and bade him quit the White Bench forever. McIntosh left the council ground without delay.