

 Cherokee bsdependence.-MR. WrRr, late Attorney General of the United States, has been employed by the head men of the Cherokees, to carry tbeir case before the Supreme Court of the United States. The Cherokees claim to bea soveyeig1e ossd sindependerat nation, and Mr. Wirt expects that the Supreme Court will sustain the doctrines they advocate. 4 more wicked and saaieii-.iiii- sa.aa ii- cipled project could not have been sug- gested.

 We cannot believe that the Supreme Court will entertain the question which Mir. Wirt has been employed to argue before that tribunal. It is known to the Judges, that 1t is impossible for two sovereignties to exist in the same dis trict of country, and that the sovereign ty of.the Cherokeess could only be sue cessfully asserted, by dividing Georgia and Alabama, and establishing a new State or Nation out of parts of each, a. galnst their consent, which would be q AieS eeHt slOidtiOii Oi t1iC COlctltVttOile

 If sustained in their pretensions, the Cherokees would either haveto be view cd as an independent foreign nation within the United States, orthey would stand on an equal footing with the whites, and would have to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, so soon as the extent of their population would justify the measure. To secure to them the right of living under their own laws, we must treat them as a foreign natioG, in every sense of the word sovereign and independent to treat with Trance. England or Russia, as wei as the United States, and to adopt such revenue laws as would be most condu- ciye to their interest or happiness.

 fadnhtfed to stand on equal footing with other States, they would be enti-