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GREENWOOD LAHORE, head Chief of the Choc- law Nation, has published an able defence of his conduct. addressed tn tho editor of the Cherokee PhGnix respecting the part he bore in negotiating the treaty for the removal of his Nation beyond the Mississippi A vlndication of his conduct render ed necessary from the repeated attacks of that print which charged him with bribery and treason against his country It will be borne in mind that the Phn- nix is printed in the Cherokee Nation, and purports to speak the sentiments of that tribe, which has at tempted to establish government of it's own, in de- fance of the States whose territory they occupy, and whose authority they encouraged to resist Missionaries and other interested white men, are the persons who protest most loudly against any change government, and fill up its columns with their own schemes of what is expedient for Indians. The tn- erant humanity of the Phoenix would reconcile it to bewail any change of masters fatal to the enjoy ment of those offices, among the Cherokees, which affords an established clergy very considerable venue together with an ndolent and irresponsible existence.

 The Cherokees know very little of what is doing for them in the Phoenix, notwithstanding the heather alphabet in which it is printed; and cannot com prehend why the fees for so much special pleading about spoatons and fraud of the bonds of their an- cestors, and money collected to educate and cvilize them, should find its way into the pockets of white men. Much less have they any wish to meddle with the of the Chocktaws, even as regards the late treaty. which will put the two tribes still far ther apart.

 Laaore repels the charge, that bribery wasresort- ed to orthe removal this people, and with respect to himself good faith to them, prompted the course he chose, as the only efectual of preserving ignorant and disbanded people from the worst of miseries. The State of Mississippi had extended her laws over the Chocktaw Nation and this act when enforced, would have changed the relation of the tribe, not ,more with the white man than with eachother. When told he no longer owes obedience to the usage of his ancestors and the laws of his clan the Indian becomes desperate and licentious be- ing. The mseries of subecting numerous, inde pendent, and indolent race to an entire change of manners and customs, for government foreign to their precepts of justice and equality, foreseen by the Chocktaw Chiefs, and they wisely concluded that emigration the best means left to ensure she happiness of their people. The impartial hsto- fan will justify Laflore for the measures he has ta- ken to provide better home for his wandering couutrymen.

 Mcintosh was perfectly satisfied, that few years more would have rendered removal of the Creek Indians unavoidable, and was preparing a com pany to explore the regions west of the Misss- xippi when he was treacherously murdered by a portion ot this tribe, who have had frequent cause to bewaH his death ever since.