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Congress to interpose for our protection were presented, and that the friends of the Indian cause both in Congress & out of it, appear to be increasing. - It will be remembered that in the course of the last Winter I served a notice upon the Governer & Attorney General of the State of Georgia, that a motion unclear be made by the Cherokee Nation thro’ their Counsil before the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ of injunction to restrain that State from the enforcement of her laws within our territorial limits.- The motion was accordingly made and the arguments heard, and upon the simple question whether the Indian Tribes within the limits of the United States are to be viewed as a foreign State in the sense of the constitution, or not, - and a majority of the judges entertaining an opinion in the negative, the injunction has been denied. - Not - withstanding, the Court has admitted the Cherokees to be “a managing its own affairs and governing itself; - and that the acts of the United States Government plainly recognize the Cherokee Nation as a State & the courts are bound by those acts.” - Thus it will be perceived that the denial of the injunction has no bearing whatever upon the true merits of our cause, but owing to the limited powers of the Supreme Court; insofar as the opinion has been expressed in regards to the rights recognised & secured to the Cherokee Nation by the acts of the General Government, they are maintained by the Court & will be sustained whenever a case between proper parties may be brought before it. Moreover the Court unclearthe features of Bill presented, as calling upon it to exercise an authority rather of a political character, which more properly belongs to another tribunal. It now falls upon our political Father to exercise his authority & afford us the protection solemnly guaranteed by Treaties with the United States; and whether the opinion of the Court will influence him or not on this occasion, it is our duty & our interest still to hold him fast by the hand, cling to