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1839. July 9, continued. They are fully apprized of their relation in which they stand to the generalgovernment, and of the high responsibilities under which the General is acting; & they feel assures that with his co-operation both tranquillity & perfect safety can be secured to the citizens of the United States & the Cherokee people. They declare it ever to have been their wish to cultivate the most friendly feel-ings towards their white brethren & all other. They add that even were there not pa-amount considerations, the weighty & unsettled business between the United States govern-ment and the Cherokee people, forbids the thought of any thing like hostilities on the part of the Cherokees. They would again repeat that the frontier citizens have no cause of fear from the Cherokees. Of this fact, they tell General he can give them the most unqualified assurances. They can only reply to the report of its having been de-termined by the Council to kill & large num-ber of their people for political & other of-fences,that a mere buse & false fabri-cation never was invented. Instead of planning carnage & death, they have been constantly maturing measures to stop the shedding of blood.

July 9. John Ross, the President, Vice Presidents & Select Committee, in convention of the eastern & western Cherokees at Illinois cam ground, write to Capt : W : Armstrong, Acting Superintendant, Western Territory. - They had received the Superintendant's letter by General Arbuckle's express: they were sorry to hear that ex-citement had worked itself up to so high a pitch: they observe that it is clear there could be no cause for such a state of feeling, because no "peek?" facts have occurred; and the undivided efforts of the Cherokees, from the first, have been directed to the maturing of measures for a general pacification, of which they are happy that the Superintendant him-self is an eye & ear wsitnesd. - They can assure him, also, that the fears entertained on the frontier are altogether unnecessary so far as the Cherokees are concerned, as measures have been adopted by the general Council, which will effectually stop further effusions of blood, and remove all cause of alarm. They feel grateful for the Superinten-