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Mr Schermerhorn's Second Note on the Same Subject: Cherokee Agency, July 9. 1835 Sir, I shall start tomorrow, in company with Lieut. Batemen, to visit some of the Missionary Stations, and shall probably spend next Sabbath at Brainerd, and proceed further to the Council. I should advise you & your friends to attend this Council, & if there is not a general attendance, I assure you I will use all my influence with the Agent & the approving party to postpone it to another time, as I perceive from the instructions from the Indian Department that a majority of those who attend the Council, have the power to controul the disposition of the annuity. I should deem myself extremely fortunate, if I could in any way be the means of bringing together , & to a right understanding, all your people; so that they might act all in harmony & concert, in bringing to a general close by a treaty, the unhappy difficulties existing between your people & the government of the United States. With respect Your obedient servant, J.F. Schermerhorn, Commissioner. Mr John Ross, P.C.C.C.N. Expressions in the foregoing letter, render it perfectly obvious that, under any circumstance, a full attendance of the people was neither expected nor desired by the Agents. It is equally obvious that they knew Mr Ross had made no other preparations; & there now remained only strikeout: eleven ten days to the meeting. The time selected was one when it was peculiarly inconvenient for the people to leave their farms. It was a moment when they were intently occupied in ploughing the weeds & working over the corn. Besides, a country of two hundred miles in length, & averaging seventy in breadth had