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1839. Aug 27. continued. Cherokee Nation, address Capt: WM Arm-strong, Superintendant of Indian Af-faris- A copy of a communication to the Super-intendant from Mess Brown & Rogers, is before the writers and has received their deliberate attention. They declare Mess Brown & Roger in that communication to have assumed a position unwar-ranted by the laws and usages of the Cherokee people, unbecoming the relations subsisting between the two branches of the Cherokee family, and disapproved by the old settlers whom they profess to represent. They observe that the ar-rival of the eastern Cherokee nation in this country, formed so important a cri-sis in Cherokee affairs, as by universal consent to require a union of the two communities, and such a remodelling of their government & laws, as would meet the exigencies of their condition; and that the feelings and expectation of the people, on both sides, were such as to forbid the anticipation of any diffi-culty in accomplishing & measure so evidently beneficial. They consider the course of these persons to have been the very reverse of their profes-sions; - that so far from having "neg-lected no means or efforts to affect an amicable union." they have used their utmost exertions to prevent its accomplishment; that at Takato-ka every effort towards effecting that object was repulsed by them;- that when the people expressed their disap-pointment and dissatisfaction at the result of that council, and called a convention of the people of both par-ties, the attendance and co-opera-tion of their chiefs, and the members of the respective council was re-quired, but Brown & Rogers declined at-tending, and used all their influence