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1839 July 3. continued. to meet the Chiefs of the opposite party in open council, to take them by the hand as friends & brothers, and, in a peaceful manner, to adjust the differences existing between the two parties. The Captain told Mr Ross it would be satisfactory to Gen: Arbuckle & the Chiefs who were waiting at the fort to know thus much, and he hoped he would send definite answer to their several propositions (some of which he thought required the most serious deliberation), as soon as the opinions of the chiefs of his own party could be made up. To this the Captain adds, Mr Ross consented, saying that Gen: Arbuckle might expect his answer by the evening of the 1st of July.

                                                                                                                                                 Rep: Doc: No. 2. 26th Cong. 
                                                                                                                                                    1st sess: p:369

July 5. John Ross, Principal Chief of the Eastern Cherokees, George Lowry & George Guess, Presidents of the National Convention, a Committee of 18 Eastern & Western Cherokees, representing the rest of the two branches of the nation, - address from Illinois Camp Ground, John Brown, JohnLooney & John Rogers, chiefs of the Western Cherokees.- The writers, in behalf of themselves and the people of the Eastern & Western Cherokees, then in National Council at that place, hail the western chiefs as friends & brothers : they affectionately and respectfully invite them, together with the balance of their brethren, to repair thither without delay, for the purpose of co-operating with them, in promoting peace, tranquil-lity, and the future prosperity and happiness of their common country. They declare themselves in doing this, to be actuated by the Kindest feelings & they hope it will be received in the same spirit. They wish nothing but what is equitable and just between man and man; and they flatter them-selves with the belief that those desirable objects can be accomplished by the Coming over of the Western Chiefs to co-operate with them as friends & brothers.