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they are strikeout intended, not residing on the same." --- "To john Ross, six hundred & forty acres, to be laid off so as to include the Big Island on the Tennessee River." This is the tract of land in question. Now, Watts, having thus relinquished his right & title to this land, and; being by the Treaty, precluded from the right to a reservation; what possible damage could be sustained by him from the circumstance of Mr Ross's restoration being so located as to include the island of which they once held joint possession? This statement is in exact agreement with Mr John Watts's own account of the matter, and whose certificate we here annex, marked A and to which we beg leave to refer: and which most fully and clearly exonerates Mr Ross from the unworthy imputations of the writer. In this cursory view which we have taken of this production, our aim has been, strikeout: to not to discuss, at length, the topics suggested by its perusal; but to seek for whatever of evidence or argument might be adduced in support of the validity of the New Echota Treaty, and to examine its soundness. we assumed as our standard, that just & fundamental principle of free Government, that the supreme power should rest in the majority. In our opinion of the justness of this standard, we are sustained by the high authority of your own Chief Magistrate. In his instructions to the Commissioners who made this very Treaty, he requires them "to obtain the consent of a majority of the head men & warriors to a Treaty to make it valid." In our examination, we have failed to discover, in this production, either fact or argument which goes to sustain the validity of the instrument in question. The Cherokees, who acted in that business, were totally destitute of authority; and the Commissioner on the part of the United States, as appears from his own testimony, violated