...they shall be protected in their persons and property and kindly treated." The ninth article reads: "For the benefit and comfort of the Indians, and for...their affairs in such manner as they think proper." Richard Peters, Tlic Case of the Cherokee Nation (1831), p. 250. '8Ibid. f ident and Congress, but...

...United States in these treaties. Art. 9, of a treaty with Cherokees, November 28, 1785, is as follows : "For the benefit and comfort of the Indians, and for...their affairs in such manner as they think proper." This article is found in many treaties until January 9, 1789, "licensed traders'' are introduced —...

...that the United States considered the Cherokees as a nation. The niritti article is in these words: "For the benefit and comfort of the Indians, and for...regulating the trade with the Indians, and managing all th-ir affairs, as they think proper." To corrsirue the expression "managing all their affairs" into...

...is, that the United States considered the Cherokees as a nation. The 9th article is in these words: "For the benefit and comfort of the Indians, and for...right of regulating the trade with the Indians, and managine; M their affairs, as they think proper." To construe the expression " managing all their affairs,...

...laws, and taxes were wholly unknown among them. The ninth article of that treaty stipulates that, "fur the benefit and comfort of the Indians, and for the...sole and exclusive right of regulating the trade with t/ie Indians, and managing all their affairs in such mauntr as they think proper." The tenth article...

...is. that the United States considered the Cherokees as a nation. The 9th article is in these words: "For the benefit and comfort of the Indians, and for...Indians, the United States, in congress assembled, shall have tin* sole and exclusive right of regulating the trade with the Indiana, and manuring- all their...

...treaty, or they should forfeit the protection of the United States. It was agreed, in article 9, that "for the benefit and comfort of the Indians, and for...or Indians, the United States in Congress assembled sliall have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the trade with the Indians and managing all...

...under treaties with the United States at this time, by which they had stipulated that "• the United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and...managing all their affairs in such manner as they shall think proper." Under this state of tilings they attempted to impose a tax upon the licensed traders...

...of our readers to the 9th article of the treaty of Hopewell, and to every word of it. It runs thus. "For the benefit and comfort of the Indians, and for...prevention of injuries or oppressions on the part of citizens or Indians, the United States, in Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right...

...from different constructions given to the following sentence, in one of the articles : ' The United States, in Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States, provided that the legislative...