regard to the Indians being driven from home after bome, and robbed of tract after tract of their lands.

In the Report of the Indian Burcau for 1875 is an account of a remnant of the Cherokee tribe in North Carolina: "They number not far from seventeen hundred, and there are bly in other parts of North Carolina, and scattered through Georgia and Tonnessec, between three and four hundred more. These Cherokees have had an eventful history. When the main portion of tlhe tribe was Mississippi they led to the mountains, and have steadily fused to leave their homes. The procecds of their lands, which werc sold in accordance with a treaty with the main body of the Cherokees, have been mainly expended in the purehase of lands, and providing fands for the Western Cherokecs. various times previons to the year 1861 the agent for the Eastern Cherokees, at their request, purehased lands with their funds, upon which they might nake their homes. These pnr chases, though probably made with good intent, carelessly left the title in their agent personally, and not in trust. By this neglect, when subsequently the agent became insolvent, all their lands were seized and sold for his debts. By special legislation of Congress thcir case has been brought before the coarts of North Carolina, and their rights and they and, by the use of their own funds in extinguishing liens, are now in possession of above seventy thousand acres of fair ara ble, timber, and grazing lands. They have shown themselves capable of self-support, and, I beliew un wisdom of removing Indians from a country which offers to them a home, and where a white man could make a living. This is shown by the fact that they are now, though receiving scarcely any Government aid, in a more both as to morals, and industry, and personal property, than proba- compelled to remove west of the re- At to a certain extent asscrted, are enabled to maintain possession of their lands; have demonstrated the hopcful condition, the Cherokees who removed West."