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18 -lined out 34 once annulled, and every one left to follow his own inclination with regard to those destructive practices. The country was soon filled with liquor to overflowing, and groceries almost every where established. Here Cherokees could obtain liquor, and cards, and whatever was necessary to secure their destruction, upon credit; and at the same time gamblers were strolling through the country, seeking whom they might devour. Many of the white men who established these whiskey shops, got in with such Cherokees as were engaged in carrying the plans of Georgia, and afterwards the treaty into effect. Thus these flood gates of iniquity became so connected with governmental purposes, that to oppose them was almost like opposing the designs of the agents of Government. Thus gambling spread like wild fire through the whole country with none to check it. And not only so, but the young people were not only almost compeled to disregard their own chiefs, but also led to despise their own parents, and all their teachers, except such as would countenance all their wicked practices. Thus the young men have been induced to treat the Bible, the Holy Sabbath, the ministers of the altar, and all the duties and ordinances of the gospel, not as unenlightened heathen, but with all that contempt and acrimony, peculiar to the Voltaires of the present age. The young men and women who have been educated at mission schools, and by great expense and labour, taught to read and understand the Holy Bible, are often the first victims of these emissaries of darkness. As they under-