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time you may come to the office for that purpose. And I will enter with you into a liberal and candid examination of the whole affair, with a sincere desire to adjust it in a manner satisfactory to your people and just on the part of the United States. Very Respectfully unclear unclear Lew Cass.

unclear John Ross and others Washington City

To the unclear: Lewis Cass, Secretary of War

Washington City, March 9th. 1835.

Sir, We desire not to intrude upon your time, nor are we disposed to trouble you with any further written communication on the subject of the affairs of our nation, in as much as you have signified to use in your letter of the 7th inst: that that letter closes the intercourse in writing between us; but from what has passed between us at our interview in your office on this day, we are constrained by every consideration of duty as well as of self respect to address you again; and to repeat in unclear what we have said verbally, that, we, as the duly authorized delegation of the Cherokee Nation are prepared in good faith to redeem every promise which we have made to the department, so far as recommendily to our nation the expediency of closing our unhappy difficulties by a treaty with the United States. And to enable us to do so more successfully and satisfactory before the Cherokee people, we proposed that the whole matter should be referred to