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1839. July 22. continued. The General has received a copy of their decree of the 7th instant, together with their communications of the 19th & 20th, and a letter from Mr Ross of the 21at. The General says it would ap-pear by their decree, that the people of the eastern and western Cherokees were justify represented at their Con-vention. He certainly can see no just cause to ap-prehend a civil war in the Cherokee nation, if this be true; and one would have been rendered still less probable, had their decree contained nothing mofe than is shown by their commu-nication of the 12th. The General send them a copy of his letter to the Chiefs of the Cherokee nation written that day; he hopes it will receive from them the serious consideration its impor-tance demands, and if so, and if the proceedings of the Convention are such as they [the western chiefs] can approve, it is believed that security will at once be given to the Cherokee nation and to the border inhabitants, when it will afford him much pleasure to inform the governor of Arkansas, & the citizens of the frontier, that there is no occasion for them to be in readiness to de-fend their homes. The general jud-ges that his letter previous to that date fully requires, and therefore he has nothing to add, except his sin-cere desire for the peace & happiness of the Cherokee people.