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To his excellency the Governor of Georgia [Alabama Tennessee and North Carolina- one to lach.} Council Sound of the Cherokee Nation, Red Clay Octerber 26. 1835. Sir, The undersigned, the Principle Chief, the assistatn Principle Chief, the Committee and Council of the Cherokee Nation, trust you will appreciate the purity of their motive for their addressing you. You are aware of the distressing situation in which our country stands. We are the earlier posessors of the soil, which we still retain, but where went, which we have had no share whatever in producing, surround us with all the amenities and privation of war, although in a state of perfect peace. Various attempts have been made to arrange our difficulties, and upon conditions which may satisfy the people. We have been misunderstood. We have been slandered. The General Government of the United State has been swayed by agents of its own, who do not enter into the feelings of our nation and who adopt a course in reference to it which has made the nation distrustful. The Cherokees will only put faith in those whose devotedness to them has been tried. They have appointed a delegation to settle their difficulties. To accomplish this, they have invested that delegation with the fullest powers. If sources of irritation are now avoided, in doubt not all will be accomplished which could be desired. are the unclear of the present unclear of congress, should we not greatly misapprehend the feelings of the general government. Under the circumstances we have thought it due ourselves, to you, to the United States, to the interests of humanity, to make this represention, and to ask that you will submit it to the legislature of which you are the head; and, in submitting it, that you will entreat your legislature, whatever they may have had the purpose of doing regarding there portions of our nation which border on their possessions, to abtain, at any rate until this negotiation shall be completed, from passing any law, or sanctioning any proceedings which may further