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Oct 13. 1834 To the Committee & Council In General Council Convened.

Friends & Fellow Citizens,

By the wise interposition of a merciful providence, your lives have been spared; and once more you are permitted to take your seats around the council fire of the nation. In the exercise of your representative character, you are required to deliberate upon the affairs of that people, by whose free suffrage you have been elected ; and it is to be hoped that whatever measures your wisdom may suggest as expedient to be adopted, will be found to conduce to their welfare and happiness.

The proceedings of the delegation at the seat of the United States' Government, have been fully laid before you at the late extra session of the General Council, from which it will be remembered that nothing definite in regard to our public affairs has been effected. Altho' the rights of the nation and its claims upon the United States for justice and protection, remain the same as ever, - yet the abuses and aggressions which have been committed, and are now committing, upon them under state authority, are still practiced with impunity. We cannot but hope, however, that the day of retribution will in the end, come, - when reparation for wrongs done and injuries inflicted, must and will be made, in all justice and good faith, to our suffering people.

In compliance with your request, a copy of the preamble and resolution you adopted in the 22d of August last, in reference to the school fund &? has been transmitted to the President fo the United States, and I submit herewith for your information, a copy of my letter to him on that subject. I also lay before you a copy of one other letter, dated the 23d of August last, to Col H. Montgomery, the U.S. Agent apprising him of your resolution directing him to pay over to John Martin, the National Treasurer, the annuities due to the nation. Some short time