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194 are placed;- not that we know that they can ever be persuaded to give their consent to seek a home any where else, but because we are fully convinced that their interest under all circumstances demands it; and we are prepared to advise them to adopt the measure, not that our opinions in regard to their rights have undergone the slightest change, nor that we have become wearied in supporting them & are disposed to desert their cause; but simply from the deplorable state of things that has been unjustly brought upon them.- The terms proposed have been maturely considered & have been fixed upon the most reasonable estimate that can be made, so as to leave all further objections on the part of the President out of the question. - We need not assure you, for the fact cannot be doubted, that were the protection of the United States government fully extended to them & the good neighborhood of the border states inculcated, as hitherto, no amount of money, far above the sum proposed, could be offered, which would induce the Cherokee people voluntarily ever to yield their assent to a cession of their homes & firesides, that are so much endeared to them by the circumstance of being situated in the land of their birthplace, where, in their childhood, they have been taught by their aged sires the lesson of venerating the soil which moulders the bones of their ancestors. - No, Sir. Money can never purchase their love of country; but the love of freedom may compel them to seek an asylum in other climes, in the far regions of the west. Taking every thing into consideration upon that broad & liberal principle which always controuls the actions of a generous people, we cannot doubt the magnanimity of this government in this case, when the immense value of our territory and the unparallelled sacrifice which the Cherokee people are about to make for the peace & happiness of the American people, are taken in connection with the great value of individual rights which must be indemnified, and the consequent sufferings & privations attendant on a long & tedious journeying into remote wilderness countries,- the expenses necessary to the comfort & preservation of the health of the people,- the purchase of a territory for their future residence, and the indispensible contingent expenditures in the settlement of the colony & the means necessary for the support of institutions to