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own services and that of the officers they had created together with $20,000 which he says "was paid them in 1819, for the four mile purchase; and have now bought the nation several thousand dollars in debt." I should not have deemed this worthy of notice, however destitute of truth, as it is, was it not calculated to create unfavorable impressions on the minds of others by misleading them. By referring to the laws of the nation it will be seen that the salary of the members of the Committee was $100 per annum, and afterwards, it was varied to $2.00 per day during the session of the General Council: the $20,000 under the Treaty of 1804 was not paid in 1819, as stated, but in 1825. Mr Schermerhorn says he is confident that the Cherokees would, before now, have accepted the propositions submitted to them by the directions of the President of the Untied States, - and the existing difficulties between them and the United States adjusted to the satisfaction and great advantages of the Common people, had it not have been for the improper interference and undue influence exercised over them by a few persons having very little Indian blood in them; but who, by the means of a little education and the wealth obtained under former treaties and the wealth obtained under former treaties have been able so to manage affairs as to deprive the common Indians, of their rights, and to assure the whole power, wealth, and authority of this nation into their own hands;- that the persons to whom he alludes are the Reservees and old enrolled emigrants under the treaties of 1817 and 1819:- that these reservees and old enrolled emigrants and their descendants of the percent of Cherokee Country, than those Cherokees who have actually removed west of the Mississippi, and now reside there. Get, these are the men who have been the cause of all their existing