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The true question is, whether the State of Georgia has a right to extend her laws over the Cherokee lands, within the Cherokee boundaries? For we insist that the Cherokee lands are not within the boundaries of the State of Georgia, to any purpose of jurisdiction whatever, so long as the Cherokees choose to retain the possession of those lands. The writer, therefore, by his mode of stating the question, assumes the very point in dispute. If he means only that these lands lie, partly, within what are called the chartered limits of Georgia, although this question has been strenuously contested by others, we are willing to concede it for the purpose of the argument. Having thus stated the question, he proceeds to his first and great ground, the original right of the civilized communities of Europe to take this country from the possession of the Aboriginal hunter, and to impose their own government on these wild lords of the forest. It is on this point that the author expatiates and luxuriates, through his first six columns and a half, with an air of confidence which would have surprised us, had we not so often seen how easily men can reconcile their faith with their wishes, in embracing with zeal, the most preposterous paradoxes. We have already said that even if the author were correct in the conclusion which he draws on this head, as to the original rights of the Europeans on their first discovery of the country, it would be wholly irrelevant to the present state of things and the existing controversy between the Cherokees and the State of Georgia, these theoretic rights of discovery having been long since waived, and having given way to regulations by treaty, and practice; and the Cherokees having, with our own consent and co-operation, passed from the hunter state to that of agriculturists, and having, therefore, upon this author's own principles