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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 to have been their uniform desire to discharge the important duties they have assembled to perform in a spirit of frankness, justice & con-ciliation; that they have asked for nothing, wished for nothing, that is not perfectly equitable; in accordance with which feelings, they have invi-ted the attendance of the brethren they now address. They observe that being infor-med in a communication from not clear Brown, Looney & Rogers, dated at FortGibson, July 6, 1839, that they conscientiously thought they