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must be said against the act of enrolling or ? ing agents; and every method was honorable which promised success in this business. The card table, and the intoxicating bowl became sacred things. And numbers were enrolled while in a fit of intoxication, And let the offense of a criminal, among the Cherokees be what it might, he was, I believe, readily unclear on advocating a removal to the west. Some were taken for alleged debts, or offences, and dragged about, from the expectation, (it was supposed) that a fright would make them willing to enroll. And as men, who have wasted their property by intemperance, are generally ready to enter into any measures which promise a reward, so it was now, evidently, with Mr. Andrew Ross, brother to the Hon. John Ross. This man was greatly involved in debt, and on this account, if I am rightly informed, he enrolled for the west and became himself an enrolling agent. And when the national council had appointed a delegation to go to Washington, and endeavor to secure their rights, this man gathered a party called the Arkansas party, consisting of a few individuals, mostly like himself. This party selected a number of their own men, to go on to Washington city, and represent their party. Of this delegation Andrew Ross, Jefferson Parks, John Walker, & James Starr were the words scratched out most prominent. On arriving at Washington, they secretly entered into arrangements with the President, to make some negotiations relative to a treaty, though with no more authority than any other set of gamblers. Mr. A. Ross probably knew that such procedure would endanger his life, when known to his people, and