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Mr Schermerhorn attributes a failure to adjust the existing difficulties of the Cherokees by a treaty, to the improper interference of a few persons who, he states, have very little Indian blood in them, - some little education, and possess "wealth by means of former treaties, and who have managed so as to deprive the common Indians of their rights, and thereby assume to themselves the whole power, wealth, and authority of this nation into their own hands"; these persons alluded to, he states, are the reservees and the old enrolled emigrants, who, with their descendants, he says have no more right or authority to dispose of the present Cherokee Country, than those who have actually removed west of the Mississippi and now reside there; - that these facts he can fully substantiate by documents which cannot lie; and then proceeds thus to prove his position, by stating, that the Cherokee tribe of Indians until May 6, 1817, after the manner of all the Indian tribes, continued to transact their business by their proper and rightful Chiefs and Warriors in full council assembled, and that at this time, the Cherokees thro' the influence of several white men who had taken Indian wives; and some men of mixed blood who had received some education at the early mission schools under pretense of saving the Country from being sold to the whites, adopted certain articles for the future government of the nation; and that this