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the care between that unfortunate man and one o the public agents of the Untied States, where conduct had been arraigned before the President by him and was at the time of his death, in a train for investigation. I wish not, by these remarks, to be understood as making any imputations; but I have deemed it my duty that these facts should be stated. Mr Schermerhorn also says, that, according to the Constitution adopted for the Cherokee Government, there is not now a single individual belonging to the Red Clay Council with John Rofs at their head, legally and constitutionally in office: that the legislature of Georgia abolished this Cherokee Government in 1828, and extended their laws over them; that there has been no elections under the Cherokee Constitution since 1828, and as their Chiefs, Committee, and Council were elected for two years only there is now, therefore, no regular and constitutional organization; and, as to their government, they are resolved into their original element and the sovereign power is in the people alone, when assembled in general national council. These remarks, as well as then, needs corrections. The Act of the Legislature of Georgia extending jurisdiction was not, as stated, passed in 1828, but in 1829 it was adopted prospectively, and which was not to take effect until the Template:Unclear day of June 1830. It is too well known how this act was carried into effect, and needs no comment now from me on that point. For the sake of peace and good neighborhood, the government of the nation was changed by the sovereign power, the people, by