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28th of July 1835, They have to refer you to their entire correspondence with the war of Executive Department on the subject, together with their memorials to congress. Claiming the right to interpret my understanding of my own proceeding in connection with the fact, attending the same, shall ever be found ready to act in good faith in relation to them. I am happy to be informed that you are determined not to deceive the Cherokees nor myself, for I assure you that there is no inclination on my part to deceive you. And I should be extremely gratified were you to be more cautious against believing every evil report you may hear against myself & other public men of the nation calculated to prejudice or mislead your minds against our true disposition. The allusion you have made to speeches which I addressed to the people last week on our separation, advising them not to meet the commissioners at this time, compels me to express this solicitude; for I do assure you that I did not so advise them, but, on the contrary, when I found that the people had considered it to be the impossible & inexpedient for them to attend, I consulted the most prominent men in authority as to their own attendant & they all declared it to be impossible for them to do so; in consequence of which I have been authorized to address you the letters of the 24th inst.-- In conclusion, I beg leave to say that I trust whenever the United States commissioners may think proper to bring forward the business entrusted to their change by the President of the United States, in a formal way, before the Cherokee nation in general council, for their consideration & determination, that all due respect will be shown to the Commissioners in their deliberation and action upon the same.- as to any differences of opinion among illegible, I sincerely desire that they may be harmonized. and I cannot but think, if those entertaining adverse opinions from my own, in the great mass of the nation, were to reciprocate the same.