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The Secretary of War The President of the United States has upon all occasions, to the utmost of his power endeavored to do justice to the Cherokees and all the Indian Nations. It is his desire to live with the Indians upon terms of peace and friendship. That the business upon which they came was shaped in the manner expressed? in the articles and it was conceived to be perfectly agreeable to them. That the articles drawn up here make the Treaty of Holston neither stronger nor weaker. If however you have any objection to signing now speak;itis / tis? not intended otherwise than for you freely to act as you may think best."