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went. The upper slower trains as they were then called, were divided;- the latter were in favor of removing and following the chase in the wild of the went; and the former, concluded to adopt the habits of civilized life and continue where they were. In this state of agitation of the people, and for fear least they would love their country and while their passions and prejudices were excited, they were led to the adoption of the above articles. By these means you perceive the designing few {{unclear} the whole power and authority out of the hands of the chiefs and warriors who had Template:Unclear constituted the council of the nation; and placed it in the hands of a committee of thirteen. Even the annuity which had always been paid to the chiefs who distributed it among the people, was placed in the hands of this Committee; and as far as I can learn from that day to this, there has been no more division of the annuity among the people, except what was taken after Gen: Jackson ordered it to be paid out to the heads of families. In consequence of the address and management of their same set of men, however, but few were have enough to receive this money. Some were induced to believe it was a mere trick of the President to get their names, in order that they might be claimed as enrolled emigrants and placed off to the west, while others were prevented from receiving it for fear of being punished with one hundred strikes on their bare backs. Until the passage of an act by congress in 1834 directing the vice of the nation in Council assembled to be taken whether their annuity should be paid to the heads of families,- to the chiefs,- and in what manner it should be disposed of, the Cherokee annuity accumulated and continued on hand; and at last the people voted it by an almost unanimous voice into the hands of these same men. This national Committee, for their services and for the offices they created, had Template:Unclear, not only the whole annuity, but $20,000, paid them in the year 1819, for the four mile purchase, and have now brought the nation several thousand dollars in debt. These Articles provide also for amendments and additions, from time to time, which we will hereafter show this Committee have