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ready to appreciate unclear, that we were in the nation by permission and under the protection of the U. States government. For this reason, and also because we had no time to escape, nor to hold farther corresponence with the Pred. Com.? we resolved to await our fate. We therefore called together some of our Cherokee neighbours, and held a prayer meeting with them that evening, to be arrested, as it was said, by the Georgia guard the next morning at sun rise. The next morning however we waited till about ten O'Clock, and as the fuard did not arrive, we started for New Echota, where we met with most of our brethren, and with them concluded to pursue our labours, depending on protection from the general government. Br.? Proctor and myself returned to Carmel, and pursued our labours as usual. Having promised to make a missionary excursion to the Valley towns, after waiting at Carmel a number of day, I left to fulfill that engagement. During my absence [Mr.s?]] Proctor, & Worcester were arrested. On learning this I immediately started for Carmel. I was not however arrested, as it was concluded to wait the decision of the court concerning those already taken, before apprehending the rest of us. The trial came on, and the judge decided that missionaries were in a certain sense agents of the United States, and therefore not included in the noted law. Of course the missionaries