boudinot fought back.the only reason the cherokee people side with ross was not incented come because their chief i've not seen fit to speak honestly with him about the great dangers that lie ahead if they resisted removal. a large majority of the cherokee people would prefer to remove. the two state of the conditions probably made no to pepfar from being so resistant and his, he said they were the two friends at the cherokee people touched by seeking answers and a new strategy. boudinot didn't hesitate to use a as editor of the charity -- "cherokee phoenix." the phoenix could present on the position voiced by the constitution of the of the cherokee people, namely himself. clearly fearing the white political leaders might look upon the essential public coral as weakness and the struggle for to resist welcome ross instructed boudinot in the summer of 1832 to stop publishing the phoenix news. outrage, boudinot resigned from the phoenix. to stay on he said in a final editorial, will replace tim in an unaccept

boudinot and ridge had no way of knowing that it would lead to a trail of tears. what they did know was settlers were invading their country, evicting people from their home, stealing property and violently attacking anyone who resisted. removal offered an alternative to these, but it also produced the misery and death of the trail of tears which would linger for generations. as we have seen, they paid the ultimate price for their choice to remove x that choice was a fervently held vision that in the end the moral as well as physical condition of their people mattered. ross lost the battle over -- [inaudible] but his unflinching commitment still remains a powerful legacy of this twining moment in the cher -- defining moment in the cherokee past. for the nation at large, the trail of tears offered a delaware stating commentary -- devastating commentary. by the 1830s only white americans, especially in the south, could lay claim to citizenship and racial entitlement. property-owning, well educated men and women of good character no longer constituted sufficient proo