Ethnology, p. '-".>7,
ee also Everett, speech in the House of Representatives on May 31, 1838, pp. 16-17, 3 s-33, i "
-For extracts and synopses of these nets sit Royce, op. clt., pp. 259-264; Drake, indians, pp. 43! i 6,
1880; Greeley, American Conflict, i, pp. 105, 106, 1864; Edward Everett, speech in the House of Rep-
resentatives, February 14, 1831 I lottery law). The Hold lottery is also noted incidentally by Lanman,
Charles, Letters from the Alleghany Mountains, p. 10; New York. 1849, and by Nitze, in his repO] l >n
the Georgia gold fields, in the Twentieth annual Report of the United States Ge
part 6 I Mineral Resources |, p. L12, 1899. The author has himseli seen in a mountain villas in Georgia
an old book titled "The Cherokee Land and Goldpresent Dahlonega, two white men, who had
been hospitably received and entertained at supper by an educated
Cherokee citizen of nearly pure white blood, later in the evening,
during the temporary absence of the parents, drove out the children
and their nurse and deliberately set fire to the house, which was
burned to the ground with all its contents. They were pursued and
brought to trial, but the case was dismissed by the judge on the
ground that no Indian could testify against a white man. 1 Cherokee
miners upon their own ground were arrested, fined, and imprisoned,
and their tools and machinery destroyed, while thousands of white
intruders were allowed to dig in the same places unmolested. 5 A
Cherokee on trial in his own nation for killing another Indian was
seized by the state authorities, tried and condemned