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a residence, should be placed within the arbitrium of one, who is guided by no landmark, but his imperious will. An advantage has been gained by creating discord between yourself and Major Ridge, and thereby a real or apparent division in the Nation -- this division must no longer exist; the controversy betwixt Ridge and yourself must be healed, & the Cherokees, when they depart from the land of their birth, must go as a United people, as a land of brothers associated together for weal or woe, under the lead of John Ross: The stake to be played for is too deep to permit the influence of passion for a single moment to usurp the place of reason & judgment; and you are surely too wise a man to permit yourself to be misled by the indulgence of feeling, when the dictates of duty & the maxims of sound policy so clearly indicate the course you ought to pursue. I repeat, let the differences in the Nation be immediately reconciled -- bring Ridge back to the position he has previously occupied in the Nation relatively to yourself, and let your future Counsels & Actions be harmonious and United and all your efforts concentrated. The Individual who mow addresses you is at this moment laboring in your service, with fair prospects & strong hopes that he will be able, when he meets you to make you ample indemnity -- or at least a large indemnity, for what you are about to lose through the instrumentality of Andrew Jackson -- be preparing for removal; there is no alternative, the Nation must endeavour to perpetuate itself in a new home, under the influence of a new system of policy -- and as I believe with fair prospects of a better position than the one you now occupy, and in possession, too, when it may be fairly presumed you will be as