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proceedings as they progress.

    Aquohee Camp 1st Aug. 1838.

signed Stephen Foreman Richard Taylor Prest of N. Couns Clerk of National Committee Going Snake speaker of Council

       signed also, by twelve persons as a committee on the part of the whole people 

  The above being the sentiments and resolutions of the eastern nation they were not prepared, at once, to give up their national existence, and acknowledge that they had not right to constitute a party in forming a plan of union with the western nation, especially as they constituted the Cherokee with regard to numbers, laws and improvements. and also as being the nations in origin, from which the western, but recently emigrated. Yet the principal chiefs of the western Cherokees is