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1839 July 29. continued. that they should have taken alarm from idle reports. The General "not clear" that be this as it may, it cannot be doubted that the killing of the Ridges & Boudinot, & the proceedings of their convention, have greatly dissatisfied many individuals of the Cherokee nation, who might, under their present excitement, commit the greatest outrages.- The General says they are already fully informed in relation to the premises made to Bell, Star, & others, who claimed protection at the fort for a short time; and that as respects the boast attributed to them, of his having advised Brown to hold on to this laws and by no means to give them up, and that they shall be sustained by the forces of the United States, the documents now in this profession fully establish the falsehood of this statement, with-out regard to with whom it may have originated. The General ob-serves that they say much of the trouble with which they are threatened, and hint that they are not permitted to enjoy their own laws in this country, agreeably to the promised made to them before their departure from the east. He remarks that if they have any difficulties in this respect, they have created them themselves, as the chiefs of he Cherokee government found by them there, have repeat-edly offered to meet them in Convention, for the purpose of forming a new government, & thereby, as the late emigrants, are more numerous than the old settlers, to give them up the offices. He asks what more they could reasonably desire; - and whether they have accepted the propositions;