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                                                                                     Regulators.                      Cherokee Nation.

                                                                                To Col. Return J. Meijs from Gen. Andrew Jackson
                                                                                                                                                                                         Nashville 28 February 1820

Dear Sir,

    Last evening was handed me by Mr. Williams, your letter of the 17th inst. with the several letters & the affidavit of Mr. Hinderman referred to.

    I have word lined out addressed a letter to Mr. Underwood. I hope it will have the desired effect of putting down any contemplated hostility. I have no knowledge of the man, but judging him from his conduct & letters, I would conclude that he is more a man of words than actions; and his view is to alarm the Indians into a compliance by his threats.

    I have forwarded G W Williams a notification to the Intruders, requiring all those white men not holding permission from the agent, forthwith to remove from the lands reserved to the Cherokee nation of Indians; or they will be removed by the first day of April next by military authority; and all intruders found within the reservation aforesaid, with their stock, will be arrested & delivered over to the civil authority to be dealt with as the law directs. I will thank you to give this publicity theory host? the nation; it may have the effect scratched out of inducing all to remove without military co-ercion.

    I shall write the Secretary of War on the subject for instructions. You will please notify me of the names of the intruders & the parts of the nation they have settled in. It will be well to let the Indians distinctly understand that no white man will be permitted to remain in the nation without your permission. 

                                                                                                         I am, Sir, very respectfully
                                                                                                            Your obedient servant
                                                                                                                 Andrew Jackson