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worldly advantage for embracing Christianity (Dr. Bogue Dec. 22) And, third, unless I would control it what I have long told the Cherokees, I should not wish them to suppose I would engage one way as the other in the political affairs of the nation further than to commend them to the many of God. We are I think held up in that Herald (May 18) to the public rather as a company of politicians, or at best as Cherokee patriots, regarding highly the temporary interests and privileges of the Indians, contrary to the professed design of the mission. It appears to me that those remarks will cast a shade on the mission character and then A. B. C. F. M. not easily to be off and from the mind of the American government in future administrations" yours etc S.B.

  The following extract from my journal (June 13, 183_) forwarded to the Com. expresses farther my views related to my duty as to engaging in any political interest "Monday June 13. Br. Proctor and myself left for the other side of the nation. At Judge Martins we met with Mr. A. McCoy of New Echota. We had some conversation with him relative to our situation I told him that as missionaries and scientific teachers we were admitted into this country by the U. States government. -- that as teachers we had a right to instruct the people in all those branches of science usually taught in America, -- a right to teach them natural and moral law. The law of nations, and all those principles of equily by which the world was bound together; but though we could teach them the rights of man, their own rights, and how to govern and take care of themselves, yet when a political question was to be decided between them and the United States, it was no more our duty to enter the list of combattants to defend their political rights, than it would be in case of war, to enter their ranks and fight their battles. -- That if a dispute should arise between them and the Creeks, and if we supposed the Creeks were greatly abused, and therefore should attempt to defend their cause, would not the Cherokee at once say that we were acting out of character, and enquire, who made us judges and dividers? over them. Spent the night at Capt. McNairs. He expressed an opinion decidely in favour of our leaving the limits of Georgia. The people in Georgia, many of them, at best consider us as worldly designing men, having our