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1839. Sept. 5.continued. as might ensure security to the lives of their citizens. They remind the General that the convention, in its course, has given evidence of the anxiety which exists to restore peace and quietude. throughout the coun-try; and they much regret that ef-fects so laudable, directed to an object so much desired by the whole Cherokee people, has not been crowned with merited success. They think it cannot surely be deemed compati-ble with the interests of their coun-trymen that a few misguided individuals should be permitted to jeopardy the lives of their most worthy citizens with impurity, and they apprehend that the General has already abundant proof that such is the fact.

Sept. 6. on this day, in the National Conven-tion at Tahlequak, Cherokee Na-tion, the two bodies of eastern and western Cherokees, completed their deliberations upon the subject of their future government arrangements, and, " in order to establish justice, ensure tranquility, promote the common welfare, and secure to themselves and their posterity the blessings of freedom, acknowledging with hu-mility and gratitude the good-ness of the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe in permitting them so to do, and imploring his aid and gui-dance in its accomplishment', solemnly adopted a Constitution, of