It is the king, without let or limitation of powers, for sixty miles around.

Scarce a man in Georgia but pays in some sort to its support--and judge and jury alike contribute to its treasuries.

Few dispute its authority, as you will have reason to discover, without suffering condign and certain punishment; and, unlike the tributaries and agents of other powers, its servitors, like myself, invested with jurisdiction over certain parts and interests, sleep not in the performance of our duties; but, day and night, obey its dictates, and perform the various, always laborious, and sometimes dangerous functions which it imposes upon us.

It finds us in men, in money, in horses.

It assesses the Cherokees, and they yield a tithe, and sometimes a greater proportion of their ponies, in obedience to its requisitions.