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upon the General Government. This claim originated & is embraced in a compact of 1802 entered into between the U. States & Georgia, which binds the U. States, at their own expense, to extinguish, for the use of Georgia, all the Indian Lands situated within her chartered limits, "as early as the same can be peaceably obtained on reasonable terms." The language of the compact is plain & explicit, as all treaty stipulations should be, & admits of but one construction, & this does not impair the Cherokee title, the said compact being the exclusive act of Georgia & the United States. Georgia asserted a claim to a vast extent of Country, of itself an Empire if its extent is considered then owned & in the possession of formidable and warlike Indians, whose southern frontier bordered on the Spanish Provinces. This claim of Georgia was destitute of lawfull foundation, either, natural or divine, but existed in a Royal Grant of an English sov-