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Major Ridge was chosen to perform the office of executioner, which he boldly discharged, by going with a few followers to Doublehead's house, and killing him in the midst of his family; after which he addressed the crowd who were drawn together by this act of violence, and explained his authority and his reasons." I have good grounds for believing that my own narrative is the more correct of the two; though, from the Cherokee character I doubt if any among them would dissent from the opinion which John Ridge adds to his account, that "the act was justified by the demerits of the victim and the patriotic motives of him who was the avenger."

8. The Cherokee veneration for the law against those who made arrangements in the name of the nation without being duly authorised, did not rest exclusively with such Cherokees as continued in their ancient possessions. It extended to the west. There it still exists. There it was seen on record within a very short time, by one of the old settlers who himself told me of it. There, in 1828, it was very near producing serious troubles to a party who had negotiated terms with the United States government, which the