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I submit for your information a most singular document purporting to be a copy of articles of agreement, or? Treaty entered into at Washington City on the 19th Day of June 1834, together with a supplement thereto annexed, between John H. Eaton as Commissioner on the part of the United States and certain Individual Emigrant Cherokees therein named. The manner in which this document has found its way here, and been presented, is no less novel than strange. - I submit also a copy of a joint letter addressed by myself & other public men of the Nation to Ben: F: Currey, the individual who presented the same, together with his reply*, from which you will discover a manifest disposition on his part to avoid every act of tending to a recognition of our national authority; and, at the same time, to withhold from the General Council his own official authority from the President of the United States on this occasion. It is a fact too well known to be contradicted, that the Committee on Indian Affairs in the Senate of the United States to whom this document was referred have unanimously reported against its ratification, for reasons, in past, that the Individuals by whom it was entered into on the part of the Cherokees, were altogether unauthorized by the nation: the Senate, therefore, ordered it to be laid on the table; which, in effect, amounted to a rejection. - The injunction of secrecy not having been removed by the Senate, the delegation of the Nation failed to obtain a copy either of the instrument itself or of the proceedings of that body on it; and how the document under these circumstances, came to be made public by the Executive Department & introduced here as it has been, is a circumstance See Documents 13 & 14 in pamphlet 23rd Con. 2 Sep.71? Senate.