but once consolidated into an
empire, with fixed and inalicnable boudarics, powerful, recognized, and determinod, the, Cherokee nation would be a thorn in the flesh to her white neighbors. The doom of the Cherokees was sealed on the day when they declared, once for all, officially as a nation, that they would not sell another foot of land. This they did in an interesting aud pathetic inessage to the United Statcs Senate in 1829
Georgia, through her governor and her delegates to Congross, had been persistently demanding to have the Cherokces compelled to give up their lands. She insistcd that the United States Government should fulfil a provision, made in an old compact of 1802, to extinguish the Indian titles within her limits as soon as it could be peaccably donc. This she demanded should be donc now, cither peaccably or otherwise We cannot but view the design of those letters," says this mossage, "as an attempt bordering on a hostile disposition to- ward the Cherokee nation to wrest from them by arbitrary means ther just rights and libertics, the security of whiclh is solemnly guarantced to them by these United States. Wo assert under the fullest autlhority that all the scntiments ex- pressed in rolation to the disposition and determination of the positivcly the production and voiee of the nation. *.*There is not a spot out of the limits of any of the States or Territories thereof, nation never to ccde another foot of land, are and within the limits of the United States, that they would ever consent to inhabit; because they havo unequivocally de termined never again to pursuc the chase as herctofore, or to cngage in wars, unless by the common call of the Government to defond the common rights of the United States. * ** The Cherokces have turned their attention to the pnrsuits of the civilized man: agriculture, manufactures, and the mechauic arts and education are all in suceessful operation in the nation at this time; and while the Cherokees are peacefully endeavoring to enjoy the blessings of civilization and Christianity on the