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1839 June 28. continued. indignity offered to the Cherokee government and themselves, by the late outrages & acts committed in the Cherokee nation by the late emigrants , & could not, for nay other motive than that given here, have thought of making a further concession to them, which they do not conceive they are in justice entitled to .

June 29. Gen: Arbuckle and Gov: Stokes, Agent of the United States for the Cherokee Nation, address John Ross and other chiefs a principal men of the late emigrant Cherokees, from Fort Gibson.- They have pleasure in enclosing to them the [foregoing] communication to them from the chiefs of the Cherokee nation. They hope it will be acceptable to them & to their people lately arrived from the east; as a compliance with the proposition will, at an early period, enable them to enjoy a full participation in the government of the Cherokee nation, when such alterations in that government can be made as will secure justice to the whole nation.-They can scarcely dealt that serious difficulties & misfortunes will be soon caused by the rejection of the proposition of the old settlers; difficulties which the writer hope the eastern chiefs will assist them in preventing . They have done their utmost to induce the chiefs & others there to make their proposition; they hope and believe the eastern emigrants ought to accept it, and, without delay, take measures to prevent the further effusion of Cherokee blood.- They announce a report on the day preceding, that a party of armed Cherokees were then ranging through the country, about Honey Creek, with the object of killing three Cherokees, two for former political offences, the third, it was supposed, for an offence of a personal nature,- The writer believe that two governments cannot exist in the Cherokee nation without producing civil war: they are of opinion that the government existing before the arrival of the late emigrants, should continue until changed in a regular & peaceable manner. They hope the proposition of the