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Council Ground of the Cherokee Nation, Oct. 28. 1835 Sir The Delegation chosen from and appointed by the Cherokee Nation to treat with the United States, have maturely considered the papers which you have laid before them, including those produced as your credentials. They have also weighed the conversations with which you have honored them. Their views of all they would now endeavor to embody in this letter. Their constituents, the Cherokee people, have instructed them to treat only with a Commissioner or Commissioners producing credentials to show that they are "fully" empowered to act "finally" in their affairs. Under any other circumstances your own simple appearance would have been all they could have desired; but under those now prevailing, they feel themselves bound to look closely into whatever may be presented. Still, they would allow every latitude they can; for it would be doing injustice to their earnest desire for a prompt adjustment of the pending question, should they allow it to be unnecessarily impeded. Therefore it is that they have overlooked the doubt which might be created by your having produced only an extract from a letter signed Louis Cass, stating simply that you, with another, had been "appointed commissioners to negotiate" while you could produce no regular Template:Unclear to that effect; and the still greater Template:Unclear into which they were thrown by observing that all the communications from the Secretary of War are directed to the two persons and never to one separately, for which reason your government might object to recognize the act of either individual by himself, as binding upon the United States. But upon your assurance that it would not be so, they were satisfied also to waive that objection, for they were divisions of affording