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155 1839 Oct: 8 . continued. against personal violence, or "domestic strife," without or against law, the Cherokees will be protected. -The commissioner declares that the course pursued by General Arbuckle towards "the committee of Cane Hill Independent Regulators " is approved; that the department can lend no countenance whatever to such proceedings, and will recognize no effort as punishing any man except through the laws of the land; and that the Cherokees are entitled to be free from "interruption and intrusion from citizens of the United States, who may attempt to settle in their country without their consent," and still more from any interference with their persons, unless authorized by law, which affords ample means for securing the innocent and punishing the guilty. Rep: Doc: No 2. 26th? Cons: 1st unclear : unclear : 414. Oct 8. Gen: Arbuckle, at Fort Gibson, unites to Adjutant General R. Jones, Washington City. - The General had the honor to transmit, on the 2d instant, for the information of the government, the copy of a demand to Mr. Ross by captain Armstrong & himself for the murderers of the Ridges and Boudinot?, together with his reply there to; in which he not only refuses to deliver them up, but denies the right of the United States to try or punish them. The General says that Mr. Ross also denies