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1839 July 2.continued. something may be done; yet he usually fears all their efforts will be unavailing, under such exasperated feelings as both parties there manifest: he has never seen a time on that frontier requiring such vigilance and so great a necessity for a strong military force. He will remain till he sees an adjustment & till his presence can no longer avail any thing. He hopes to hear from Mr Ross early on the morrow & will as soon as possible apprize the Commissioner of the result. Rep: Doc : 26th Cong : 1stsess:

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July 2. John Ross writes from Illinois Camp Ground, Cherokee Nation, to Capt: Armstrong, Acting Superintentant, Western Territory, at Fort Gibson.- To Capt: A's letter by express, he hastens to reply by the same messenger. He had dispatched a communication on the subject Capt: A. writes about, on the day before (dated JUNE 30): as the bearer missed the captain on his way u/c, Mr Ross enclosed a copy.- Mr Ross regrets the excitement then prevailing among the people of that country: he feels solicitous that it may be speedily allayed by the adoption of such a course of measures as will tend, not merely to restore quiet, but so clearly & firmly establish the peace & harmony of the nation, that future danger may never arise from the same causes. He says a large number of the Cherokee people are then assembled there; that the number is not clear both of old & late emigrants; that the meeting was called for a landable purposes and not, as may have been misrepresented, to trample upon or