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1839 July 24, continued. The writers have inalienable rights which they are found to respect and which they cannot relinquish, con-sistently with their sense of duty to themselves & their families.

July 2t. John Ross, and all the various officers of the National Convention at Illinois Camp Ground, address short forms Brown, Looney & Rogers, and the people assembled in Council at the mouth of Illinois.-The writers accost them as friends & brothers. They say that, ac-tuated by the most earnest desire to promote the best interest of the whole Cherokee family, they have met in National Convention, agreably to a call regularly & legitimately made at the late General Council of Ta, Ka, To, Ka. They declare it