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1839 Oct: 8. among them, instead of which the difficul-ties are apparently increased and each party more tenacious of the stand it has assumed. The Commissioner re-marks that in all communities where there ae divers and inconsistent interests, there must be a yielding by each of what is most obnoxious to the other, and a meeting on some middle ground; that it is on this principle that all asso-ciations of men are successfully main-tained, and upon which only they can prosper; that it was thus the United States framed their consultation, which has always been administered in a spirit of compromise, with wonderful advantage, as the world knows,; but that still there must always be, so long as the opinions and interests of men differ, parties who will advocate the views they severally entertain; and, the Commissioner asks, how shall they be reconciled?- He is in-structed by the Secretary of War, that the great and liberal principle of modern times, is the only one, in his opinion, by which the Cherokee nation can be made one in feeling, interest & government; and he adds, that the majority shall rule, is an "ancom?" in polities, now substantially admitted al-most every where, and one that must prevail universally. He declares it to be applicable and its adoption as ne-cessary to the Cherokees as to other com-munities; and he therefore recommends to the Cherokee Nation of all parties to assemble in National Council, and, as one people, to determine on such laws and regulations, as the larger num-ber