WILLIAM PELHAM.

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 In the case of George Tassclls. Cherokee Indian, convicted of murder in the Superior Court Of Hall county, Georgia, and in which the conststutonality of the Law of that state extcn- dlng its jurisdiction over the Indian territcry, was put in issue, the defendant having plead to me Jurisdiction of the state courts, the chiefius sice oi the supreme court of the United States has allowed a writ of error to the court in which the case was tried, commanding it to send up the record.

 lhs act, on the part of the justice, seems to have been the occasion of additional excitement n the legislature of Georgia, in which great ex- 7fiteHcht prevailed the subject of sn,iia,, re- iatons. The governor made it the subject of 2 special message to both branches, asking to be clothed with such especial power as thseysmiaht eecrn requisite, to protect the state in the exer else of jurisdiction within its limits, in criminal Cases; and the two houses, almost unanimously resolved that they would never so far compro- mt tNe sovereignty of the state, as to become t party to the case sought to be made before the Supreme court of the U. States by the writ in question; and all the means and farce of the state are placed at the disposal of the governor who IS enjeined, as well as every other officer. to disregard and resist it.

 What may be the result of these proceedings. cannot well be toreseen, although it cannot be aenled that they present d very threatening as peet If the right to punish crimes against the peace of q state, be not an attribute of soyc- 1e'snty, reserved to the state, then inded will state sovereignty exist only in name. It timc suat every state, that has Indians within it's ln-