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1839 July 8. continued. remain until some arrangement should be made to give them personal security. - The General had determined, in conse-quence of his efforts to restore peace to the Cherokee people not having received from the eastern chiefs the attention they merited, to have no further con-cern with the present difficulties in the Cherokee nation, unless imperiously required by duty; and he much regrets that information he had received will not justify him in remaining longer silent. He says reports arrived the evening previous that the United Nations citizen, on the western border of Arkansas had become alarmed & were leaving their homes in consequence of the critical state of affair in the Cherokee