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1839 Oct :7 : continued. over which the people themselves were competent to exercise control and to adjust in a manner deemed most con-ducive to the peace & general welfare of the nation. They ask the Agent to bear in mind the failure at Takah-tokah to effect a re-union of the people; that that council assembled at the joint call of the respective authorities although so laudable and desirable, was defeated by a few individuals, that the proposition of terms from the eastern Cherokees (of the nature of which the Agent is apprized) was rejected & no offer made in return by the Chiefs of the Western Cherokees. The writers observe that the greater portion of the people, however, of both parties were properly impressed with the necessity of union upon terms of friendship and good understanding; that their relative situation required it; and that there existed no rights or even plausibility why the authority of the one or the other party should predominate to the destruction of the other; that the peace and interest of both suggested the importance of an entire new government for the whole, to be founded upon an act of brotherly union. This, remarks the writers, being indispensable, the people, mutually, both eastern & western, determined upon another effort for its accomplishment, and accordingly in-vited the whole people & their chiefs to meet in convention for that purpose: they responded to the call: they assembled at the Camp ground near Illinois: