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such a meeting was impossible. The Principal Chief asked wherefore they thought so? "Because" answered Elias Boudinott, "I have taken much pains to ascertain the sentiments of the members of the General Council; and I have discovered that some of them, rather than attend at New Echota, will resign. Such an event," he added, "will be most embarrassing to the public interest. An omission to assemble will break up the representation; which, at this moment is rendered peculiarly important, by the necessity we are under of appointing a delegation to Washington." In there views of Elias Boudinott, the Ridges both concurred. They stated, further, that even should the Council meet at New Echota to legislate, they would inevitably be interrupted by the Georgia Guard. The consequences might be terrible. The people would not see their Chiefs & Representatives made prisoners and dragged away ignominiously without resistance. Mr. Ross replied that if the disposition these gentlemen ascribed to some of the members really existed, it was extraordinary that none of them should have communicated with him to that effect, for this was the first he had