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1839. Sept 30, continued. friendship of both parties. The General & Superintendant cannot be otherwise than fully impressed with the fact, that there exist in this country a feeling decidedly friendly to the gov-ernment and people of the United States; and no wish or attempt to cause innovation in the plain and well-understood method of com-munication or intercourse.- The Principal Chief is wholly at a loss, in relation to the particular subject of "arrest and trial", of which they speak, to conjecture by what right or sound policy the Cherokee people are to be deprived of the exercise of their own legitimate authority over acts of one Indian against another; an authority founded upon natural as well as conventional rights:- he cannot conceive how, of the persons charged be Cherokees, they have violated either treaty stipula-tion or act of congress, that they should be held answerable to the courts of the United States, and the military force employed for their arrest. Any effort directed to that purpose is deprecated as calcula-ted to disquiet the country, to weaken the confidence of the people in their exertions to allay excite-ment, and the enjoyment of some respite from the difficulties and em-brassments which have solong distressed them. The Principal Chief declares that none of the persons, charged with the act which the