Instances of it continue to be heard of to this day.

But the conscience of the nation was instructed, and a warning was served upon political parties to beware of proposing for national honors men whose hands were defiled with blood.[264:1] Another instance of the fidelity of the church in resistance to public wrong was its action in the matter of the dealing of the State of Georgia and the national government toward the Georgia Indians.

This is no place for the details of the shameful story of perfidy and oppression.

It is well told by Helen Hunt Jackson in the melancholy pages of "A Century of Dishonor." The wrongs inflicted on the Cherokee nation were deepened by every conceivable aggravation.
"In the whole history of our government's dealings with the Indian tribes there is no record so black as the record of its perfidy to this nation.

There will come a time in the remote future when to the student of American history it will seem well-nigh incredible.