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1839 June 28. continued. and undisturbed authority of said nation, as it existed & was in force before the arrival of the late emigrants, all of whom had been received as friends & as citizens of the present Cherokee Nation & allowed fully to participate and enjoy all the priveleges and benefits thereby secured to the people. They had believed that this kind & just treatment on their past, would have been received in the spirit in which it was offered, and that if their present form of