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1839. June 21. continued. say the Agent is aware that it was convened to unit the eastern &western Cherokees & to take measures for remodelling their government &laws, soas to meetthe exigencies of both branches of the Cherokee family, and to provide equally for the tranquillity &permanent welfare of the wholepeople. But they regret that the representatives oftheir western brethren have not received their reasonablepropositions ina manner compatible with the wholepeople's wishes. The western chiefs require that the whole body of the people lately arrived from the east, shall submit unconditionally to laws &requlations in the making of which they have had no voice. The attempt of a small minority to express their will over a great majority contrary to their wishes, appears to the "writers?" a course repugnant to reason & propriety & which cannot fail to disturb the peace of the community &to operate injuriously to the best interest of the nation. They have hopes, however, that everything will yet be amicably settled. The sense of the people who form a branch of their general council has been expressed upon the subject; by them it is deemed essential to the national welfare that the