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1839 July 12. Capt: WM Armstrong, Acting Superinten-dant, Western Territory, writes from the Choctaw Agency West, to T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Wash-ington, City. - The Superintendant will endeav-our briefly to explain the proceedings of the Cherokees, from the time of the late Council early in June, called by both par-ties, up to the recent"termination?" of his visit. The Superintendant says the Coun-cil, as stated, was called by all parties, to adopt such rules and regulations as might be deemed proper for the Cherokee nation. The Superintendant was invited to attend the Council & would have done so, but for public engagements elsewhere He is informed, however, by Gent. Arbuckle & Governor Stokes, who were both present, that at this Council it soon became evident that the parties would not unite. He says the Ross party proposed to the old settlers, that they would select an equal num-ber from both parties, and adopt a con-stitution to be submitted to the people, and that, if approved of, the same indi-viduals should proceed, in Convention, to pass laws under the constitution for the Cherokee nation. The Superintendant pro-nounces this proposition a reasonable one, when the strength of the parties is considered. But he says the proposition was unfortunately rejected by the old settlers, who gave it as a reason, that the laws as now in existence must stand