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the "blame" or responsibility, & he hopes that the General will cease to confer such unmerited marks of distinction upon an individual who has no ambition to be thus signalized. -- To the other portions of the General's letter of the 14th of October, the Principal Chief has no wish to reply at length; and most assuredly none to engage in a spirit of controversy so apparently manifest & inviting as in the General's language. The Principal Chief remarks that the Eastern & Western Cherokees have formed a union with which the majority of both are satisfied, and it being a matter exclusivly their own, it is not considered that the General's approval was needed to legalize the transaction or that his opposition will destroy it among the Cherokees. He adds that the aid or friendly counsel of the government officers in public matters may not at all times be objectionable and the Cherokees have ever been grateful for acts of kindness; but their gratitude cannot extend to an approval of political acts calculated "to disturb the quiet" of the mass of the people. -- The General's other remarks were predicated upon entirely erroneous