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must sign the Document prepared or be censured as unfriendly to the Cherokees, whereas, in my opinion the Cherokees should never have been taught to expect political aid from missionaries. That document, however correct in itself, yet placed missionaries in a daring attitude, and brought upon them much odci?n? which they might have otherwise avoided. When the noted law relative to the oath of allegiance, passed the Georgia Legislature, it reached Carmel sooner than any other mission station. On reading it, br. Proctor, my associate, and myself were united in the opinion that it would be expedient for us to remove our families to some Cherokee settlement out of the limits of Georgia, and immediately transmitted the law, together with our own views? to the Prud. Com.* We also stated to the Committee that we could make arrangements for leaving the station without any special waste of Mission property as br. A. Sanders would take possession of all the premises. We referred the whole however to the decision of the Committee. On the first day of March we were to be arrested, if found in the limits of Georgia without having taken the oath of allegiance to the state; but our answer from the Prud. Com. did not arrive till the last day of February at evening. That communication allowed us to act according to our own view? of right, yet a majority advised us to remain at our stations for several reasons, one of which we were