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1839. Aug: 27.continued. influence from attending also: - that, at a council called by themselves at Tal-luntusky for the declared purpose of consulting with the people of the "old settlers", on the subject of atten-ding the national convention, they continued to repel every effort of the late emigrants and of the "old settlers" to induce their friendly co-operation with the people; but that, in total disregard to the people's opinion or voice, they, without their consent, made this opposite ap-peal to the Government of the United States. - The writers ask the Superintendant what is the intention of that appeal?- whether it means to demand that the Cherokee people be subjected to the domination of Mess Brown & Rogers by the sword of the United States? The writers pronounced that the question being one of a pure-ly internal character, the only tri-bunal competent to adjudicate their case would be the people of their own community; but that the principles of justice, as swell as the relations subsis-ting between the United States and the Cherokee, would forbid the govern-ment from adopting a measure of the kind invoked/: - the convention, therefore, respectfully enters their solemn protest against it. They consider this appeal as utterly inappropriate and uncalled for, and as equally a vio-lation of the rights and liberation of the Cherokees, and an imposition on the government of the United States; and as a further illustration of the value which ought o be attach-ed to this appeal, and in proof of the non-existence of circumstances required the protection invoked, they respectfully refer to the proceedings of the Council of the people of the "old settlers", in reference to the conduct