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167 1839 Oct 14. continued. as well as the Cherokee people generally, would fail to obtain pay for the lands they left on the east of the Mississippi, with other remarks calculated to disturb the quiet of the old settlers, and impair their confidence in their chiefs. The General states that it is understood that it was with such a party, generally, that John Looney acted in signing a paper, or decree, on the 23d of August last, deposing his brother chiefs Brown and Rogers, which the General now orders to be drawn up in the language of all the decrees which were passed by Mr Ross's convention, and which therefore he is authorized in believing to have been prepared under the directions of Mr Ross, if not written by himself. The General observes that the fourth paragraph of that decree complains, that "they", (meaning Brown and Rogers), have continued to oppose the friendly reunion of the two parties," &c, when it could not have been forgotten by Mr Looney or Mr Ross, that he (Mr Looney) acted with Brown and Rogers on the 28th of June last, in making, as it is now believed, the only fair proposition that was made, with the object of uniting the old settlers & the late emigrants. The General remarks that, this being the fact, as it certainly is, how will Mr Looney & all others acquainted with the proposition having been made, acquit themselves of a most wilful and corrupt disregard of truth.