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1839 June 30. circumstance of the two Ridges & Boudinot being killed & the violent threats of revenge made by some of their friends against the lives of innocent persons. He adds that to prevent the shedding of innocent blood, a number of the well disposed people have been compelled to assemble with arms in hand for the sole purpose of acting on the defensive and repelling any lawless attack on the lives of unoffending individuals.- that since then, several of the persons "not clear" threatening revenge, have gone to Fort Gibson, as they say, for protection: that Gen: Arbuckle, prier to this, had invited the western chiefs, as the writer was advised, with the view of their taking, in conjunction with himself & other Chiefs of the late emigrants, steps to prevent further acts of violence: that the writer's friends had determined under existing circumstances it would be better for the Chiefs to meet & confer on this important matter at the writer's own above, where a large number of the people were already assembled, unless the General should still desire the writer to meetthem at the fort and should approve of his being accompanied tither by all those who desired to go with him:- that he had consequently invited Gen: Arbuckle & Gov: Stokes, with the Western Chiefs, to meet the parties interested there:- that no answer had yet been given to this invitation, but a written correspondence opened, embracing matters vested in the people alone to determine & not within the province of any chiefs to settle & enforce by themselves:- he adds, that a late General Council held at Takuttokah by the joint appointment of the eastern and western Cherokees, for the purpose of forming a re-union of the nation & taking preliminary measures for remodelling their government & laws upon such principles of equity & justice as would ensure general peace & happiness, had failed to realise its object: that, consequently, the people took the matter into their own hands & appointed