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1839. June 21. continued. say the Agent is aware that it was convened to unit the eastern &western Cherokees & to take measures for remodelling their government &laws, soas to meetthe exigencies of both branches of the Cherokee family, and to provide equally for the tranquillity &permanent welfare of the wholepeople. But they regret that the representatives oftheir western brethren have not received their reasonablepropositions ina manner compatible with the wholepeople's wishes. The western chiefs require that the whole body of the people lately arrived from the east, shall submit unconditionally to laws &requlations in the making of which they have had no voice. The attempt of a small minority to express their will over a great majority contrary to their wishes, appears to the "writers?" a course repugnant to reason & propriety & which cannot fail to disturb the peace of the community &to operate injuriously to the best interest of the nation. They have hopes, however, that everything will yet be amicably settled. The sense of the people who form a branch of their general council has been expressed upon the subject; by them it is deemed essential to the national welfare that the devised union should be formed & general prosperity &happiness secured by wholesome laws;- to carry their wishes into effect, they have called a national convention of the eastern &western Cherokees to meet at Illinois Camp ground on Monday July 1, 1830. Under these circumstances the writer feel it due to the interest of the late emigrants, as well as to all concerned, to request that no payment may be made of monies due to those whom they represent, nrt any other business of a public character affecting their rights be made or transacted by the agents of the United States' Government, with any other authority than the writers, until a re-union of the people shall be effected.