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a delegation to Washington City during the Session of Congress to plead in behalf of our sufferings; and the wide circulation of the Cherokee Phoenix throughout the United States, has had a very salutary & happy effect in counteracting the misrepresentations which are fabricated against us for the purpose of aiding the unjust policy of our oppression, by enlightening the great mass of the people of the United States upon the Indian Cause; and as these measures could not have been effectually adopted without money, our annuity fund has been of great service in carrying them into effect. The President seeing this & finding himself disappointed and defeated in his policy of removing us west of the Mississippi by Treaty, has determined to withhold our annuity from the proper authorities of the Nation, and has ordered its distribution to be made among individuals. A similar course is taken with the Creeks. It is said that the late Creek Delegation applied to the President for a part of their annuity and remonstrated against the contemplated distribution of its among the individuals of their nation. The President refused to countermand his order & remarked that "the Creeks had come to an understanding with the Cherokees to unite in taking up the Indian Cause before the Supreme Court for adjudications and that they only wanted this money to see a Lawyer with; that he would not break sticks to put in other people's hands to break his own head with." Thus the object of the President is folded & made too plain to be misunderstood. It is to create divisions among ourselves, break down our government, our press & our treasury, that our cries may not be heard abroad; that we may be deprived of the means of sending delegations to Washington City to make known our grievances before Congress and of the means of defending our property against fraud & our persons against the prisons of Georgia, that we are invited by inducement with our own money to disengage and