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should decide that we were not under the protection of the general government, and we were again ordered to leave the limits of the state, we should do so. My reasons for pursuing this course, and not adhering longer to the policy of some of my brethren, are stated briefly in the following communications to the Presidential Committee Extract of a letter ^ to the Cov.? Secretary dated Carmel April 25 - 1831. Dear Sir, in the close of this communication will you permit me to make a few remarks relative to the affairs of Georgia and the nation, as we are all so peculiarly interested. In answer to the circular last year from the Pred. Com.? I believe I said that if I were not a missionary I would petition the governor and Legislature of Georgia and the President of the U. States, though I thought at the time that the most mild and pacific measures should be pursued. When we reviewed? the paper containing the late laws of Georgia, my private opinion was that we had better remove our families without her? chartered limits, and attend to the churches, as itinerant preachers; that Georgia might see ^ that we were yielding and ready to comply with her wishes as far as possible, consistently with our ministerial labours; and were not acting from motives of opposition. I also thought this agreeable to the feelings, and most earnest desires of all our christian friends in Georgia and generally in this country, especially the members of Carmel Church. Thus the United