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1839.- June 14. The National Council of the western Cherokees, write from Jakuttokud to John Ross & George Lowry, Chiefs of the eastern Cherokees.-They have taken up their propositions of June 13 and duly considered them. They say the eastern Chiefs say they wish to unite the people. The western National Council believe the two peopl to be already united. The western chiefs having met their brother emigrants & made them welcome to the Country, they are thereby made partakers of all its existing laws and are in every respect the same as they themselves. Since being thus taken by the hand, the people have come to the Chiefs & expressed great satisfaction with their reception. This the western Council considers sufficient to justify a belief that the people are very well satisfied; and hence they ( the western Council) find fault with further agitation of the question of union, which they say only pro tracts debate, and unnecessarily, because the Union has already been fully & satisfactorily accomplicked. As respects the wishes of the eastern Council that their original laws from beyond the Mississippi should be brought here, brought to life & have full force in the present nation, the western national council behave that such an admission would be entirely repugnant to the government & laws of the cherokee nation, and create great dissatisfaction among the people. They add that the admission of two distinct codes of law & two distinct governments in the same country and over the same people, has never been known in any country, & even asked by any people.-To this note, a second is appended by the western chiefs, who desire the eastern Chiefs to regard this as their answer to the proposition made by them.