after that amount was declared by the Senate of the United States to bc an ample consideration for them, the spirit of this whole proceeding cannot be to0 much admired. By some the measure may be regarded as jnst; by others generous: it per haps partook of both attributes. If it went farther than na ked justice could have demanded, it did not stop short of what liberality approved. If our acts have been generous, they have not been less wise and politic. A large mass of men have been conciliated; the hazard of an effusion of human blood lhas been put by; good feeling has been proserved, and we have quictly and gently transported eighteen thousand friends to the west bank of the Mississippi."

To dwell on the picture of this removal is needless. The fact by itself is more eloquent tlhan pages of detail and de scription could make it. No imagination so dull, no heart so hard as not to see and to feel, at the bare mention of such an emigration, what horrors and what anguish it must have in- volved nanimity of nature, strengthened by true Clristian principle, conld have prevented them from being changed into cighteen thousand bitter enemies Only Eighteen thonsand friends !" a great mag- For some years after this removal fierce dissensions ront the Cherokee nation. Tho party who held that the treaty of 1835 lad been unfair, and that the nation still had an nnextinguislh- cd right to its old country at the East, felt, as was natural, a bitter hatred toward the party which, they elaimed, had wrong- fully signed away the nation's lands. Several of the signers of the treaty, influential men of the nation, were murdered. Par ty-spirit ran to such a height that the United States Government was compelled to interfere; and in 1846, after long negotiations and dissensions, a new treaty was made, by the tecrms and eoncessions of which the anti-treaty party were appeased, general amnesty provided for, and comparative harmony restored to the nation.