We have our misfourtine as with other nations on this continent. The Cherokees have bin treated by the American Republic unworthy of the head of a civilized goverment her name will go down to future eyes with scorn and reproach on her head. She will fell it in her legislative halls it never will be eradicated from her history historians will have to write it down on her pages which will go down to the latest posterty.

—JAMES A. FOLSOM, a young Choctaw student at Miami University of Ohio, to his uncle, Peter Pitchlynn, October 31, 1831¹