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special mandate to the State Court to carry this judgment into execution. This mandate was in due form presented to the State Court of Georgia, but so far from obeying, they refused to pay the slightest attention to it, -- refused even to enter upon their minutes the motion made for the discharge of the prisoners, or to recognise in any form the existence of the mandate, but treated it as a mere nullity. All these facts were known at Washington, when this executive manifesto was issued denouncing before the Nation the opinion of the Supreme Court, and thus sustaining and encouraging the State Court of Georgia in their contumacious resistance to the mandate of the Court. This paper, too, let it strikeout never be forgotten, proceeds from a cabinet minister of the President of the United States, whose constitutional duty it is "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed." The reader will observe that the true and only question before the Supreme Court was, whether the law of Georgia under which Messr Worcester & Butter had been arrested within the Cherokee territory, and sentenced to the Penitentiary of Georgia, was or was not repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, and laws of the United States. The Supreme Court saw that the Constitution of the United States had conferred upon the President & Senate the exclusive power of making treaties, and regulating commerce with the Indian tribes. They shew that the execution of the treaty-making power, various treaties had been made by the President with the Cherokee nation, which had been duly ratified & confirmed by the Senate. They refer to the provisions of these various treaties, to shew that by the constant and uniform acknowledgement of the United States, the Cherokee nation was a separate political community with the powers of self-government within their own territory, that the lands within a marked boundary had been solemnly guaranteed to them by the United States, under whose protection they had placed themselves; and that the faith of the whole American Union stands pledged to make good this guarantee and protection. They shew that from the time of the adoption of the Constitution, the establishment & regulation of all relations subsisting between the United States & the Indians, had been conceded, without question, to the government of the Union exclusively, without the pretention