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Document A Copy. Cherokee Agency E. Sept. 15. 1835. Sir, I know the deep interest you feel in behalf of the Cherokees and your anxiety on their account, that they should accept of the liberal propositions for a treaty submitted to them by the direction of the President of the United States. I am confident all this would have been done before now and the existing difficulties between them and the United States adjusted to the satisfaction of great advantage of the common people, had it not been for the improper inferference and undue influence exercised over them by a few persons who have very little Inidan blood in them, but who, by the means of of a little education and the wealth obtained under former treaties have been able so to manage affairs as to deprive the common Indians of their rights and to asume the whole power, wealth and authority of this nation into their own hands. The persons to whom I allude are the Reservees and old enrolled emigrants under the treaties of 1817 and 1819. Of the former class there are 342 who enter their names for reservations according to the provisions of those treaties; and agreed to become citizens of the United States and to continue to reside permanently on their reservations within the country they had ceded to the United States within the chartered limits of Georgia, North Carolina, Tenessee and Alabama; and of the latter who agreed to remove and receive pay for their improvemen, some of whom received commutation of transportation and subsistence to their newborns, there were ten hundred and twenty seven who never removed. These reservees and old enrolled emigrants and their descendants who have this received all the benefits and provision stipulated and provided for them by these treaties, have no more rights or authority to disperse of the present Cherokee country than these members of the Cherokee nation who have actually in conformity with the Treaty, removed west of the Mississippi, and continue there ever since; and