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he had heard of it. He himself could not sympathize either with such fears or such caution. And even should the guard intrude, as the gentlemen apprehended they might, he believed it was doing the people injustice to suppose they would not be influenced to act discreetly. Besides, suppose the members should be arrested. What then?_ Can they not not give bail and return; and when driven from the place of constitutional meeting, they will have the strong plea for a change that it was by force and not to be avoided._ "But the subject is one of vital importance" added W Rofs" and must not be dismissed lightly. Its mine is but and single opinion, and I am now only one against three, I will do this, gentlemen. I will [ark] all the members here. We will meet at my house as private persons and then [diseufs] the expediency of assembling at New Echota or elsewhere in our public capacities. I know that it is desireable to avoid excitement; and in the way I mention we shall best discover how it best it can be avoided. The arrangement was made. The constitutional day of assembling the Council was the second Monday in October, which would fall