the Christian Soldier in Boston, which told the Cherokees not to give up the Ship. Other newspapers also commented on removal through their editorials with a uniform message that told the Cherokee Nation to hold out against the Indian Removal Bill until a new administration took control of Washington on March 4, 1833. However, not all of the Cherokees supporters were from New England where Boudinot, Principal Chief John Ross, and other leading Cherokees were educated. Support came from as far South as Nashville, where the National Banner said that threats against Boudinot were the highest disgrace of the Georgia government. Despite the growing support for the fight against removal and the 1832 Supreme Court decision that ruled the Georgia Legislation unconstitutional for outlawing the Cherokee government and confiscated tribal lands, President Jackson followed through on his policies. The Phoenix fought back by publishing accounts of the Georgia Guards arrests and injustices done to the Indians in an attempt to compromise the honor of Georgia. Notwithstanding, the newspaper continued to report White intrusion and the illegal extradition of its people; however, the heated attacks began to wane as Boudinots views about removal changed. The political rights of the Cherokee cannot be restored or secured by a continued investigation, or a repetition of the numerous and aggravated grievances which they have already laid before the American People. As Boudinot continued to publish his views favored Indian removal in the Cherokee Phoenix, he was pressured by the council to resign, for not representing the official position of the Cherokee Nation and printing dissident positions that would confuse the people. He did so in August of 1832. According to Cullen Joe Holland in The Cherokee Newspapers, 1928-1906 : The Tribal Voice of a People in Transition, there was No doubt that he [Boudinot] considered it futile to oppose Georgia and...
