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it is founded; an article in the North American

Review taken as a standard of those principles, on

its supposed authority, as an exposition of the

creed; the injustice and cruelty of the argument;

disproved by fact; it is unphilosophical and libel-

lous, equally against human nature, as against the

CHAP. IV.

Same subject continued:-the doctrines of the argu-

ment for removal of the Indians more particularly

Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States,

1832, involving the case of the Cherokee Indians

against the State of Georgia, and also the rights of

Indians generally; the dignified and honourable con-

duct of the Court; their firmness and independence

in trying circumstances; the decree of the Court

contemned; events in the same current, as if the de-

cision had not been obtained; Judge Clayton's deci-

sion, pronouncing the laws of his own State (Georgia)

over the Cherokees, unconstitutional, and his dis-

missal from office; his correspondence on the sub-

ject with Chancellor Kent; dubiousness of the

prospects impending the Indians

CHAP. VI.

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Consideration of Georgia's plea in justification of her

course she has fallen upon a third and innocent

party for indemnification of a wrong done, if done at

all, by another and the only party responsible . . 103

CHAP. VII.

Statistics of the North American Indians: their

rapid and alarming decline in numbers since known

to Europeans; they are divided in nearly equal

portions between the jurisdictions of Great Britain

and the United States

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History of the Indian policy of the American Govern-

ment; the original charters from the Government

of Britain were, in the letter, a bad example; but

her exposition of them, through her official agents,

has been honourable; the same principles have

guided the Government of the United States, in the

management of their Indian relations, till the recent

change in the system; the change is a revolution

CHAP. IX.

The merits of the scheme of removing the Indians :-

interest suggested it; all experience is against it;

migration tends to barbarism, and makes barbarism

more barbarous; the removal of the American In-

dians, under the circumstances proposed, is unjust,

cruel, and utopian

CHAP. X.

Representations from various tribes of Indians at the

city of Washington, in 1830-31; their variations of

character and degrees of civilization;
their appear-

ance and objects; the Cherokees

CHAP. XI.

The Green Bay case brought to Washington by the

parties for adjudication; recapitulation of the con-

troversy; result of the mission

CHAP. XII.

The first case of the Cherokees in the Supreme Court,

in 1831; its failure; a contemporaneous motion in

Congress in their behalf; the occasion and manner

of it; its failure

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An account of a day of fasting, humiliation, and

prayer, observed by the Indians at the city of Wash-

ington, in the spring of 1831, on account of their

troubles, and before they separated.

The great moral causes, in the history of America,

which have occasioned these encroachments on the

rights of the Indians

CHAP. XV.

The late Indian war in America of 1832; and a vin-

dication of the Indians from the charge of waging

unprovoked hostilities against the whites

CHAP. XVI.

The revenue accruing to the United States from the

sale of Indian lands; and the duty of appropriating

it for the benefit of the Indians

Decision of the American Supreme Court, and opinion

of Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of the Cherokees

against Georgia, 1832 .

Opinion of the Associate Justice, M'Lean, in the same

Chancellor Kent's Letter to Judge Clayton, of Georgia,

on the Cherokee question.

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