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1839. July 14. continued. to the part which says " we are again constrained to express our regret at that portion of your communication which relates to our western brethren, and your interposition in behalf of the Cherokee people". - He thinks it strange they should in their first letter to him say they are again constrained to express their regret; and still some strange, because he had no re-collection of receiving a letter from any of their friends containing such remark. He refers them to his communication for existence that there is no cause for that particular regret; and if they imagine they have any other, the general begs them to state the facts on which it is based, and pledges himself to con-vince them that his conduct in