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JOHN RIDGE: They arrested you to make a statement. If they can enter our lands and remove you, they can remove me. And every other citizen of the Cherokee Nation. SAMUEL WORCESTER: I think it’s inevitable— JOHN RIDGE: They want to establish a precedent. And you’re willing to give it to them. SAMUEL WORCESTER: I want to go home. JOHN RIDGE: So you’ll let them take mine.
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