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1839
1839
July 8. continued.
July 8. continued.
remain until some arrangement should be made to give them personal security.  - The General had determined, in conse-quence of his efforts to restore peace to the Cherokee people not having received from the eastern chiefs the attention they merited, to have no further con-cern with the present difficulties in the Cherokee nation, unless imperiously required by duty; and he much regrets that  information he had received will not justify him in remaining longer silent.  He says reports arrived the evening previous that the United Nations citizen,  on the western border of Arkansas had become alarmed & were leaving their homes in consequence of the critical state of affair in the Chero-kee nation; and of an armed body of Cherokees having gone into the state of Arkansas & killed Major Ridge, a Cherokee citizen: the General observes that this has produced a state of things which the eastern chiefs cannot fail to perceive must be of short duration, otherwise the most serious consequen-ces
remain until some arrangement should be made to give them personal security.  - The General had determined, in conse-quence of his efforts to restore peace to the Cherokee people not having received from the eastern chiefs the attention they merited, to have no further con-cern with the present difficulties in the Cherokee nation, unless imperiously required by duty; and he much regrets that  information he had received will not justify him in remaining longer silent.  He says reports arrived the evening previous that the United Nations citizen,  on the western border of Arkansas had become alarmed & were leaving their homes in consequence of the critical state of affair in the Chero-kee nation; and of an armed body of Cherokees having gone into the state of Arkansas & killed Major Ridge, a Cherokee citizen: the General observes that this has produced a state of things which the eastern chiefs cannot fail to perceive must be of short duration, otherwise the most serious consequen-ces may be apprehended on that function: the General regards it as a duty to call their serious  attention to the subject and to request that they will without delay adopt such mea-sures as they may judges best cal-culated to quiet the minds of the Cherokee people; which, if effected, will no doubt make the citizens of

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1839 July 8. continued. remain until some arrangement should be made to give them personal security. - The General had determined, in conse-quence of his efforts to restore peace to the Cherokee people not having received from the eastern chiefs the attention they merited, to have no further con-cern with the present difficulties in the Cherokee nation, unless imperiously required by duty; and he much regrets that information he had received will not justify him in remaining longer silent. He says reports arrived the evening previous that the United Nations citizen, on the western border of Arkansas had become alarmed & were leaving their homes in consequence of the critical state of affair in the Chero-kee nation; and of an armed body of Cherokees having gone into the state of Arkansas & killed Major Ridge, a Cherokee citizen: the General observes that this has produced a state of things which the eastern chiefs cannot fail to perceive must be of short duration, otherwise the most serious consequen-ces may be apprehended on that function: the General regards it as a duty to call their serious attention to the subject and to request that they will without delay adopt such mea-sures as they may judges best cal-culated to quiet the minds of the Cherokee people; which, if effected, will no doubt make the citizens of