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new relations, which have not yet been defined, that they will be required to sustain towards the United States as well as among the several tribes, are circumstances in connection with other causes, strongly calculated to produce disappointments, such as cannot fail to lead to discontent, strife, dispersion and, perhaps, extinction. To avoid, if possible, this unsettled state of things & its concomitant evils, our people have been included to cling to their rights here with so much firmness, and also to endure the oppressive hand of usurpation, under the lingering hope that the United States will yet, in good faith, afford them justice & protection under their existing treaties & laws. There can be no doubt of the practicability of an adjustment being effected between the General Government and the State of Georgia, of their compact in relation to our lands, on the basis of the resolution suggested by the late report of the Committee upon Indian Affairs, on the Memorial of the Cherokee Delegation; as it is manifest that a large portion of the citizens of that state, would be perfectly satisfied with such an adjustment. It became your duty, therefore, to deliberate on the expediency of pressing this subject upon the further consideration & action of Congress. The expediency of taking further steps for continuing the publication of the Cherokee Phoenix?, also claims your attention; and it is a subject highly worthy of your deliberation. The obstacles which have heretofore presented themselves in the way of a regular publication of the proper, will be found to consist mainly in the withdrawal of printers from the service; - at a time too, when they were most needed. - The want of a regular supply of paper may, also, be taken into account. These obstacles, however, can be removed, if ample funds can be