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Template:Unclear to a hope of satisfactory arrangements, every facility in their power. And it is entirely in the spirit of conciliation that they would express their deep regret at certain admissions in the letter of which you have favoured them with a copy, from Gov: Carroll. They allude to those passages where it appears that he, though me of the Government Commissioner, has given circulation in the states Template:Unclear upon our nation, to certain writings against us, emanating from you, another commissioner for the same purpose, which to us appear calculated to encourage, if not to excite, among your countrymen our neighbours, the bitter prejudices and eh hostile acts to which the United States refers as rendering the protection they are pledge by treaty to afford us, impossible. The same remark may not be inapplicable to proposed proceedings of the State Legislatives, referred to in the same letter. We cannot but think that that it would have been more kind, more polite, and perhaps more regular, to have Template:Unclear from a course so prejudicial, especially pending a negocitation. These points, however, they name only in sorrow. Their reception of you, and of your proposals this morning, must convince you that they are most anxious to bring their matters with the government to an amicable and speedy close. But upon examining the articles you have submitted to them as the basis of the Treaty you have to propose, they can find in them no real variation from those against which the Cherokee nation have already opnely and formally protested. It is true you offer to insert an additional clause, allowing consideration for "the just claims of the Cherokee people"; but this is only conditional: you make it dependent upon the approval of the Senate, who may