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1839 June 28. continued. indignity offered to the Cherokee government and themselves, by the late outrages & acts committed in the Cherokee nation by the late emigrants , & could not, for nay other motive than that given here, have thought of making a further concession to them, which they do not conceive they are in justice entitled to .

June 29. Gen: Arbuckle and Gov: Stokes, Agent of the United States for the Cherokee Nation, address John Ross and other chiefs a principal men of the late emigrant Cherokees, from Fort Gibson.- They have pleasure in enclosing to them the [foregoing] communication to them from the chiefs of the Cherokee nation. They hope it will be acceptable to them & to their people lately arrived from the east; as a compliance with the proposition will, at an early period, enable them to enjoy a full participation in the government of the Cherokee nation, when such alterations in that government can be made as will secure justice to the whole nation.-They can scarcely dealt that serious difficulties & misfortunes will be soon caused by the rejection of the proposition of the old settlers; difficulties which the writer hope the eastern chiefs will assist them in preventing . They have done their utmost to induce the chiefs & others there to make their proposition; they hope and believe the eastern emigrants ought to accept it, and, without delay, take measures