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1839 Aug 8. continued. for trial. The General had hoped, we then, to have received a reply to his communication of the 4th.- In a postscript the General states that since the foregoing was written, he had received their letter of the 7th instant, together with a copy of the Cherokee nation, which he earnestly hopes they will accept; but fears they will not, in consequence of their wishing the western committee to meet them at their present con-vention ground.

Aug:9. John Brown, * John Looney & John Rogers, Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation, & Messrs. Thora-ton, clerk of the National Council, at Tallantusky, address captain William Armstrong, Superintendant of Indian Affairs.- The state that it is well known to the Superintendant that the western Chero-kee nation has existed many years, as an organized government, and that they have been recognised as a body politic by the government of the United States, and that the said government had, by treaty, engaged to protect and sustain them in the enjoyment of their rights and in the execution of their laws:- and that it is also known to him that they have, in their national capacity, expressed their willingness to receive into their country, under the pro-tection of their laws, and to a full participation in all their rights and liberty, any of their brethren who may be disposed to emigrate from the land of their father, and seek a permanent home with them; and that, since the treaty of 1828, many hundreds of their brethren have availed themselves of the liberal overture they have held out to them, and have settled in their country; and all have been received by them

• subscribed in the copy- . John Looney, absent.