The Arkansas advocate., 1830-08-18

laws, ordinances, orders, regulations and usages to be null and void, and perempiorily demands submissiontohcr proscriptive and oppressive laws, nnder ] I..e the most degrading eireunastanees. She has pointed to her jails, penitentiary and gallows for practising obedience to our own laws; and independent of all our treaties with the United States, and the acts of Congress which have been passed for the protection of our in- diyidaaI and national rights, the Chief. Magistrate of the Union has warned us against any hope of interference, on his part, with Georgia, in the exercise of his power-yet, he says, that such power as the laws give him for our pro teetion, shall be executed for our hene- fit and this will not fail to be exercised in keeping out intruders; beyond this he cannot go. An officer commanding q detachment of the United States Troops, who has been ordered into the nation. as it is said, for the purpose of removing intruders, has communicated to the Cherokees at the Gold mines the following notice.
 s'That an arrangement has been en- tered into by which there will be mutual assistance betweehthe J. States Troops and the civil authority of Georgia, it having been extended over the char tered limits, and all the natives are here by advised to return to their homes and submit to the proclamation of the State authority"
 fsignedl E. TRAINER.
 Lieut.. Com'g.
 "P. $. They cannot be supported any longer in any thing inconsistent with the laws of the State
 Thus you will see that the rights and liberties of the Cherokee people are most grievously assaiied.
 Our delegation were authorized, if 1t should become necessary to consult and employ counsel to defend our cause be- fore the Supreme Court of the United States, in which tribunal, as the con #servatory of the Constitution, Treaties and laws of the. Union, we can yet hope for justice, ard to which we should fear lessly and firmly appeal. would, there fore, recommend the expediency of passing law, authorizing sofsse Frs;ii to assert the rights of the Cherokee na- ton in all Coarts of law ssad eqnity.in the I United States; also to address the Pres ident of the United States frankly, open ly and respectfully, on the subject of our unhappy sitnations and request his pateFnal Interference in all points as far as the treaties and laws of the United States acknowledge and secure to us our rights; until the controversy at is sue with Georgia be decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.
 ] would farther submit to your con sideration the necessity of adopting some suitable and proper regulations for the observance Of eur citizens in working the Gold mines of the nation and other valuable minerals, such as the puDilc interest and good order of so- ciety may seem to require.
 Confiding in the experimenting care of a kind Providence, we should not despair, even should we for a season be plunged into the cells of Georgia's prisons--means for our delverance may yet be found. Let us not forget the circumstance related in Holy writ, 1 of the safe passage of the children of Israel through theerystal walls of the Red Sea and the fate of their wicked pursuers; let our faith in the unsearch- ed mysteries of an Omnipotent and all wise Being be unshaken, for in the ap- .pearance of impossibilities, there is still hope.
 JOHN ROSS.
 .Nsso Echota, (. M July 1880.