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a survey of the whole field which covers the ground wherein the difficulty first grew up, it is clearly seen that the unhappy conflict arose exclusively from the illegal exercise of state jurisdiction. Being, now, deeply impressed with the truth of this belief that it will be impossible for the Indian Tribe to be perpetuated as distinct independent communities within the limits of the United States - not, because they are destitute of such rights & do not hold a strong claim on the protection of this government, - but, because it is evident that, when the political interest of the States, comes into contact with the RIGHTS of the Indian, the government will not afford the necessary protection which the Indian rights demand, consequently the weaker power will be forced to yield to the pretensions of the greater power. Under a full conviction of the correctness of this view of the subject, together with the reality which the Cherokees are now witnessing under the practical operation of Georgia's Nullification through the graceful principles of unionism, the Delegation have, upon mature reflection & solemn decision, come to the conclusion to make a proposition to the President for a final adjustment of the existing difficulties, the basis of which, it is firmly believed, is the only one by which the Cherokee people can be preserved & elevated into the respectable circle of the white community around them: it is this: they propose, in behalf of the Cherokee Nation, to cede to the United States, for the use of Georgia, an extensive portion of their territory lying within the charter limits of the state, and reserving to the nation only a fractional part bordering on Tenessee and Alabama, so as to write those parts of the nation lying within the charter limits of these states, in connection with the strip lying within the charter limits of North Carolina; and that the United States on their part will guarantee the fee simple right of property in the soil, to the Cherokees, in the lands thus reserved, and to expel from, and keep off, all intruders from the same; that, with the consent of the states within whose limits the lands lye, counties may be organized & the jurisdiction and laws of the states extended over the same, upon the condition that the states will receive & admit the Cherokee People into all the immunities, rights & priveleges belonging to the free citizens of the states. Such an arrangement could not fail in removing the seeds of contention