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28th of Feby1835, I beg leave to refer you to their entire correspondence with the War + Executive Departments on the subject, together with their memorials to congress. Claiming the right to interpret my understanding of my own proceedings in connection with the facts, attending the same, I shall ever be found ready to act in good faith in relation to them. I am happy to be informed that you are determined not to deceive the Cherokees nor myself, for I assure you that there is no inclination on my part to deceive you. And I should be extremely gratified were you to be more cautious against believing every evil report you may hear against myself & other public men of the nation, calculated to prejudice or mislead your minds against our true disposition. The allusion you have made to speeches which I addressed to the people last week on our separation, advising them not to meet the commissioners at this time, compels me to express this solicitude; for I do assure you that I did not so advise them, but, on the contrary, when I found that the people had considered it to be impossible & inexpedient for them to attend, I consulted the most prominent men in authority as to their own attendance & they all declared it to be impossible for them to do so; - in consequence of which I have been authorized to address you the letters of the 24th inst.-- In conclusion, I beg leave to say that I trust, whenever the United States commissioners may think proper to bring forward the business entrusted to their change by the President of the United States, in a formal way, before the Cherokee Nation in General Council, for their consideration & determination, that all due respect will be shown to the Commissioners in their deliberation and action upon the same.- As to any differences of opinion among brethern, I sincerely desire that they may be harmonized. And I cannot but think, if those entertaining adverse opinions from my own, in the great mass of the nation, were to reciprocate the same.