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1839 Aug 7. continued. proposition; unless it was intended that no voice should be heard in the matter excepting theirs. They protest that the late emigrants had no de-sire whatever that the old settlers should "yield to their will and pleas-ure", "but that both parties could meet in the full possession & enjoy-ment of all their powers & pre-rogatives, and without yielding up any right, or destroying any thing that was valuable in the institutions or resources of either, to combine the virtue & wisdom & advantages of both, and to render the whole available to the general welfare; but the writers add, this desire was not reciprocated: on the contrary, at the general council, composed of the chiefs, councils & people of both communities, at Ta-Ka-to-Ka, every movement of the emigrants towards effecting a union was repulsed by the wes-tern chiefs; and no proposition was made by them on the part of the old settlers and hence there resulted a failure to effect the object for which the council had been condened. The writers pro-ceed to state, that, the people who formed a constituent branch of that council, being dissatisfied with the failure of their representatives, passed resolu-tions expressive of their senti-ments and called a general council of the people, of both par-ties, to meet in national convention on the 1st day of July, 1839, which convention assem-bled accordingly;- that the call of the people, under which the convention had assembled, invited the attendance of the chiefs of both parties, with the