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1839 Aug 23. continued. sentiments and feelings of that portion & the nation known as old settlers, fre-quently, and variously, and publickly expressed: That their appeal to the United States dated Tulluntusky, August 9.1839, on behalf of the old settlers, to be sustained in the enjoyment of their rights, and in the execution of their laws, is altogether uncalled for, and unauthorized by the people of the Cherokee Na-tion, and an outrage upon their rights; - therefore, the citizens of the Cherokee nation known as old settlers, whose signatures are appended, in council assembled, resolved, - that the aforesaid John Brown & John Rogers, had acted in a manner unworthy of the office of chiefs and had assumed powers incompatible with the liberties of the Cherokee people, and had, in various instances, perpetrated acts unauthorized by the laws and usages of the nations; - that, by such un-worthy and unlawful conduct, having betrayed the confidence of the Cherokee people, the parties whose signature are appended, as old settlers", in the exercise of their inalienable rights, col-lectively and individually declare their disapprobation of the conduct of Brown and Rogers;- wherefore they, the people of the western Cherokee nation, in na-tiional council assembled, in their own name, and by the authority and in the exercise of their primary and plenary powers, for the causes therein set forth, deposed and removed John Brown and John Rogers from the office of Chiefs of the Western Cherokee nation, and disqualified them from exercising, in any manner, the power and functions of chiefs of the western Cherokee nation. Rep: Doc: No 2: 26th Cong: 1st sess: p: 286.

Aug 27. John Ross, Principal Chief, John Looney, Acting Principal Chief, and the various officers of the National Convention at the Convention Ground, Cherokee Nation,