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of the leading men of the nation to convene at his house & there confer. There was but one opinion as to the propriety of proceeding with the regular Council as appointed by the constitution; and all further discussion ended in deciding that it should be at the regular place which the constitution specified,- the Principal Chief peremptorily declining to assume the responsibility of departing from the law upon that subject. Circulars were accordingly issued in Cherokee, ordering the Assembly of the General Council as usual at New Echota.

          Scarcely had this measure been taken, when Major Ridge,- -John Ridge, his son, then President of the Committee, & Elias Boudinott, the nephew of Major Ridge, & Editor of the Cherokee Phoenix , went to the house of the Principal Chief. They stated that they had come to advise a reconsideration of the resolution to assemble the Council at New Echota. Mr. Ross replied that the affair had been concluded on in the Executive Council; and could not be altered; even had not the constitutional provision upon the subject rendered it doubly imperative. The visitors stated that they were persuaded the