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To the Members of Chickamangah &? Amohee Districts flourish image

Head of Coosa CN Ap. 28. 1832

My friends, By the last mail I received a letter from Mr John Ridge, one of our delegates at Washington City, an extract of which I have deemed it my duty to communicate to you, that the people of your respective vicinage may be apprized of the reprehensible conduct of John Walker Jr & James Starr who accompanied certain Cherokees of Arkansas Territory to Washington City in the course of the past winter, by misrepresenting the true feelings & dispositions of a large portion of the citizens of Chicamangah, Amohee & Amohee Districts, to the President & the Secretary of War, with the view of encouraging them with the idea that a majority of those citizens are favorable to a Treaty being made. Consequently you will, As an act of justice to yourselves, as well as towards your country, take such suitable steps as you may deem prudent and proper, to counteract the foul aspersion cast upon your fellow citizens by those men; and to guard these citizens against the intriguing artifices of those who may be disposed to co-operate with them upon their return home, in forwarding the policy of the President for our national ruin. The Supreme Court in the case of Worcester & Butler vs. the State of Georgia has determined the question of our national rights as fully as can be. The decision is final & cannot be revoked: but the course ? of legal proceedings is necessarily attended with tardiness, consequently should the authorities of Georgia, refuse, as they have done, to release immediately those much injured imprisoned gentlemen, and continue still to arrest & oppress our citizens, we should not be discouraged; - because the President, out of his disappointments, may still pursue a political course?