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During the negociations, Gen: Richard D. Dunlap A Tenefsee? received from the President, the offer to be appointed joint unclear with Mr. Schermerhorn, to negotiate a Cherokee Treaty with John Ridge and his followers. Gen: Dunlap replied that he should be proud of the honor of such an appointment, but that he could not negotiate with an unauthorized party - that Mr. Rofs was the only medium through which a treaty could be obtained. The President replied that Major Ridge the father of John Ridge was well know to him - had sewed with him in the war - and could raise warriors enough with a word to exterminate Rofs and all his adherents. Gen: Dunlap assured the President that he had been grossly unclear upon in reference to the Ridge party: that whatever the major popularity might have been, he was not utterly impotent among the Cherokee and that any one who would profess to have a hope of making a Treaty though the influences of that family would be suitly? of a unclear towards the Executive. Gen: Dunlap declined the suggestion of the President and Mr. Schermerhorn was appointed sole Commissioner..