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To the Committee Council In General Council convened. In compliance with your request soliciting such suggestion as may in my judgment be deemed proper to be adopted as a measure calculated to "unite the people in opposition to all usurpations of their rights and at the same time direct their minds to the ultimate settlement of their difficulties by legal & proper means," I proceed to present the following views which have occurred to my mind, in taking a full view of our difficulties; - that, we should never lose sight of the rights and interests of the people: by strictly observing this course, the confidence of the people in their representations will be secured, and that unanimity of sentiment & action among themselves, which ought ever to remain inviolate, must be preserved: - it is, therefore, the duty of the representatives of the people to keep their constituents correctly informed of their proceedings; - and in communicating to them the proceedings of the late Delegation, it is indispensibly necessary that the propositions which were submitted for the consideration of the President and rejected by him, should be clearly understood: - by offering to make a concession of certain rights to the United States for the adjustment of our difficulties, that it has not been done from any binding obligation on our part, but only from the necessity of our situation and with the view of securing relief for our people; and that peace, harmony & good neighborhood with our white hethren might be preserved: - and that, by the rejection of those propositions on the part of the President, our rights have not been impaired, nor in the Cherokee people in the slightest manner committed or entramelled? by those propositions. Such being the true state of the case, the rights of the nation remain unimpaired, but those difficulties which have been unjustly brought upon us are still continued. And, as certain unauthorized individuals have entered into certain articles in a treaty formed with the president, which has been circulated thro' the country as a proposition to the nation for approval, the first step? therefore proper on the part of the representation of the people under existing circumstances ought to be, to express a decisive and unequivocal disapprobation against