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quote certain passages of these treaties and to publish some of the written notices sent to the Agent by those for whom see simple reservations were granted, with the view of endeavoring to prove that those reservees are now intruders here upon the lands of their own birth place. - Among these I find my name not courteously mentioned by this Reverend Commissioner. A little pains in examining the Treaty, might have spared him this trouble. Template:Unclear far as I am concerned, it maybe well in the first place to state that my residence, previous to and at the time of, entering into the Treaty of 1819, was at Rossville, in the vicinity of the look out mountain in that part of this nation lying within the chartered limits of Georgia; that it did not fall within the territory coded by the Treaty of 1819, but the lands which surrounds it still belongs to the Cherokee Nation. This being the fact, it will be seen by referring to the 3rd article of the Treaty, that my name was introduced amongst others, who obtained a special reservation of 640 acres of land, and that the reservation of Callin Smith and myself embraced lands which the Cherokee Nation many years previously had given to us consequently, I was not required to become a citizen of the United States, nor have I ever, at any time, abandoned the Nation and taken up any abode in the white settlements, excepting when a boy at school, and transacting himself for a mercantile gentlemen; and after Template:Unclear, whom engaged in business for myself or the nation. Justice also demands that Template:Unclear state, many, if not all those who had taken life estate reservations, were either forcibly drove Template:Unclear the whites, on Template:Unclear by them out of their reservations, - so they were compelled to return to their own nation, and they were welcomed and