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Therefore I say to you, my friends, you must be united; you must be as one person; you must steadily maintain the right we all have to our common property. You must love one another to the end; for if you fall out and divide, there is no hope left for our cause. I do not believe that the government of the United States will wrest our property from us without indemnity; but there is no harm in watching even good men. [Here a general laugh among the Indians) If the time should come when this difficulty is settled, it will be a benefit to all of us ; but if the time should come when our situation is to be made worse, then all the Cherokees will become very miserable. Therefore I say to you, you must love one another. When the people of as nation divide it against itself, then their national existence becomes destroyed, just as strikeout: a when a city or a family by dividing break their union and scatter far & wide and are no longer a city or a family; but mere wanderers, belonging no where. Therefore it is I say you must be united as one. You must not let your minds be scattered. Now is the time when strikeout we are more than ever bound to love each other as Cherokees. The oppressive treatment under which we suffer