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Cherokees, that such a law would be held even in more honor with them than all other red men. So it ever was. There are very impressive proofs of this, which I will name.

7. The zeal of the elder Ridge in once defeating the intrigues to warp his people from their patriotism, has been already mentioned. There occurs in his early history a second instance of the acts of his more Roman days. It is described with strong panegyric in the account supplied by his son for the work already quoted, on "The Indian Tribes of North America." The anecdote I mean is of the death of Doublehead, a great Cherokee orator, who, in 1806, when attended by a regular delegation, made a Treaty which the bulk of the Cherokees considered as contravening their instructions. In this Treaty Doublehead had secured a reservation for himself & a few friends of about ten miles square, in the region now including the Alabama town of Florence. He had proceeded, with the rest, to parcel out the reservation & sell it to the whites. This aggravated the public exasperation. His offence was not punished, but it was not forgotten. When a new encroachment was sought soon afterwards, the people believed that Doublehead meant to favor it. He had gone to the neighborhood of the site where Calhoun now stands, to meet the United States Commissioners on the subject. The elder Ridge and