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Strictures on "The Report of the Joint Committee on the State of the Republic" of in the Legislature of Georgia, on the subject of the Cherokee Lands; purporting to prove the absolute Jurisdictional right of the said state to the same. This document, bearing on its front an imposing form, deserves a passing notice by those who are vitally interested in the subject of which it treats. The field of argument is always entered by the aborigines of America, encumbered with peculiar disadvantages, to those of their white neighbors, who have the power & science to sustain them. I am pressed with this knowledge of inadequacy to the task, I enter the lists at the request of one I esteem for a friend & one thro' partiality, calculates more on me, than I dare expect to accomplish. But truth is apt to penetrate, the