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22 - crossed out 2 guaranteed this country to them forever, and pledged the faith of the Union that the Cherokees should be protected on it as long as they wished to remain here. The Cherokees on their part endeavoured to follow the advice of their father, as the President stated himself. They dispersed from their large towns,-- built convenient houses, -- cleared and fenced farms, and soon possessed numerous flocks and herds. At the same time the women made rapid improvement in the manufacture of cloth, and the acts of domestic life. The council also encouraged schools, and granted to missionaries every advantage they could desire. -- Allowed them to clear and cultivate what land they wished, -- to erect such buildings and machinery or they pleased. -- to pass ferries and turn pikes free of expense, and share gratuitously all the hospitality of the country, as if they were indeed Cherokee citizens. They also improved their government, forming it, as far as possible, after the model of that of the United States, and established regular courts of Justice. They enacted laws to prevent gambling, drinking and other immoral conduct. They established hours of entertainment on this public road, and exerted themselves to accommodate this guests with the best the country afforded. They endeavoured to that all white people with kindness, and observe the strictest regard to all their treaties with the United States. Thus they engaged in good earnest to become an enlightened people. But that rising prosperity soon