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Rev J.F. Schermerhorn US Comm Template:Unclear Red Clay Council Ground Oct 30th 1835. Sir Neither your last communication in writing, nor that with which you did us the honor to accompany it in person, appear to disclose any views materially different in fact, from those upon which we have already decide; altho' there may be some difference in form. We are, therefore, compelled once more to assure you that our former answer must be considered as final,- and our arrangements requiring dispatch, we have closed our meetings as a Delegation, and shall do no further business until we arrive at Washington. This decision will preclude the necessity of our entering into any discussion upon minor points; and we will only state, generally, that your last letter seems written in haste, because it discloses several misapprehensions, which we trust would not have been the case had you weighed it more maturely. In reference to another Council, at New Echota, we cannot enter into your views, as the people have already made their election upon the cause they wished pursued. We, in their name, protest against any further meeting being called, under the name of a Council, in the way you propose, as an unnecessary agitation of the public mind, and as an act which will never be recognized by the Cherokee Nation, but must Template:Unclear only in useless expense to your Government, which it would be, in us, uncandid to encourage. Template:Unclear