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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
crced; the injustice and cruelty of the argument;
disproved by fact; it is unphilosophical and libel-
lous, equally against human nature, as against the
Indian
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CHAP. IV.
Same subject continued:-the doctrines of the argu-
ment for removal of the Indians more particularly
considered
CHAP. V.
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.
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
CHAP. VII.
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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
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
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134
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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. 173
186
CHAP. XIII.
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 .
CHAP. XIV.
The great moral causes, in the history of America,
which have occasioned these encroachments on the
rights of the Indians
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213
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
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244
APPENDIX.
No. I.
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
case.
No. II.
Chancellor Kent's Letter to Judge Clayton, of Georgia,
on the Cherokee question.
259
308
. 336
No. III.
The Cherokee lands divided among the Georgians by
lottery.
No. IV.
Character of the Rev. Mr. Worcester, and correspon-
dence between him and the Governor of Georgia
before his arrest, in 1831
No. V.
Georgia's repeal of the law, under which the Mission-
aries were convicted and sentenced .
No. VI.
Release of the Missionaries and their return to the
Cherokees
No. VII.
342
346
358
360
Extract from an editorial article in the Cherokee news-
paper, a journal managed solely by the Indians.
No. VIII.
Extract from an American account of the debate in
Congress, 1831, on the motion of Mr. Everett in
behalf of the Cherokees.
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382