[Clayton, Augustin Smith]:

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A VINDICATION OF THE RECENT AND PREVAILING POLICY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, BOTH IN REFERENCE TO ITS INTERNAL AFFAIRS, AND ITS RELATION WITH THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, IN TWO SERIES OF ... A series of articles by influential Georgia legislator Augustin Smith Clayton on two of the most pressing issues of the day: Georgia's treatment of Cherokee and the Bank of the United States. Clayton launches a vigorous defense of Georgia's policy of extending jurisdiction over Cherokee lands, in the face of criticism from President John Quincy Adams and others across the nation. Despite his arguments here, a few years later he would be removed from his office as a judge in the Georgia superior courts for asserting the rights of Cherokee to mine gold on lands to which their title had not been extinguished, in opposition to Georgia (but not Federal) law. He also opposed the Bank of the United States as monopolistic, oppressive, and foreign controlled. Clayton's articles originally appeared in the Columbian Centinel under the name of "Atticus;" this collected printing adds a prefatory address by the author. Scarce.

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