[1468] Ib. 537-42.
[1469] Ib. 542.
[1470] Ib. 542-61
[1471] See vol. iii, 504-13, of this work.
[1472] 6 Peters, 561-63.
[1473] Story to Ticknor, March 8, 1832, Story, ii, 83.
[1474] Lumpkin's Message to the Legislature, Nov. 6, 1832, as quoted in Phillips, 82.
[1475] Greeley: The American Conflict, i, 106; and see Phillips, 80.
[1476] When the Georgia Legislature first met after the decision of the Worcester case, acts were passed to strengthen the lottery and distribution of Cherokee lands (Acts of Nov. 14, 22, and Dec. 24, 1832, Laws of Georgia, 1832, 122-25, 126, 127) and to organize further the Cherokee territory under the guise of protecting the Indians. (Act of Dec. 24, 1832, ib. 102-05.) Having demonstrated the power of the State and the impotence of the highest court of the Nation, the Governor of Georgia, one year after Marshall delivered his opinion, pardoned Worcester and Butler, but not without protests from the people.
Two years later, Georgia's victory was sealed by a final successful defiance of the Supreme Court. One James Graves was convicted of murder; a writ of error was procured from the Supreme Court; and a citation issued to Georgia as in the case of George Tassels. The high spirit of the State, lifted still higher by three successive triumphs over the Supreme Court, received the order with mingled anger and derision. Governor Lumpkin threatened secession: "Such attempts, if persevered in, will eventuate in the dismemberment and overthrow of our great confederacy," he told the Legislature. (Governor Lumpkin's Special Message to the Georgia Legislature, Nov. 7, 1834, as quoted in Phillips, 84.)