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annuls the treaty-making power, and the legislative power. Yet it is his sworn duty to execute the laws of the land, and our treaties are expressly declared by the Constitution to be a part of the supreme law of the land. Again; he has openly refused to execute the act of Congress of 1802 for regulating intercourse with the Indian tribes. That law is one of those which have been made in execution of our treaties. It authorizes the President of the United States, to employ military force of the nation, to repel white intruders and prevent surveys of the Indian lands. This law is engrafted by reference on the treaty of 1819, with the Cherokee Nation, and they are assured by that treaty that they shall have the benefit of it. The Cherokee Nation have been strenuously engaged ever since the year 1829 in invoking from the President the execution of this law, to prevent the intrusions and surveys of their land ordered by the State of Georgia. Former Presidents have had no difficulty in executing this law in the very case of Georgia. The law has been acted upon, ever since its passage in 1802, without question or doubt in any quarter. It has been again enforced, in its various provisions, both by the courts of the United States, and the federal execution, as well against the Indians as for them. But President Jackson openly refuses to execute it, assigning as his only reason, through his aforesaid organ, that the law is unconstitutional. Thus although sworn to execute the laws of the union, he assumes to himself the arbitrary power of deciding, at his pleasure, what laws, and what treaties, made by his predecessors and sanctioned by the whole nation, he will execute; and he annuls both treaties and law, with as much indifference and non-chalance, as if we had no Constitution, or as if all power were confided by that instrument to him, Having paid these ceremonious visits of nullification to the other departments of the government, he comes now to the Judiciary; and he has only to extinguish this last light of the Constitution, to usher in the night of despotism, and taking all the powers, legislative, executive and judicial, into his own hands, to give us a taste of Russian autocracy in an American dress. In evidence of what he has already done, we appeal to the outrages which he has suffered to be committed by the State of Georgia on the Cherokee Nation, in open violation of the treaties and laws of the United States, and to the explanatory