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existing difficulties, and they far have prevented a final adjustment of them:- that there facts can be fully substantiated by documents that cannot lie; and that he will proceed to lay them before you" And then proceeds to state the the Cherokee Tribe of Indians until May 6, 1817, after the manner of all 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 through the influence of several white men who had take 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 from being sold to the whites, adopted certain articles for the future government of the nation; and that this extraordinary meeting of the fifty four towns and villages on this occasion was held in consequence of the agitated minds of the Cherokees, in consequence of the appointment of Gen Jackson and Gov McMinn to hold a treaty with them for the purchase of their Country and their removal west: - that the lower towns were in favour of removing and following the chase in Template:Unclear of adopting the habits of civilized life and to continue upon their own lands where they were. By these means Mr Schermerhorn would persuade you that the designing fear arrested the white power and authority out of the hands of the Chiefs and Warriors and placed it in the hands of a Committee of Thirteen. Permit me here to remark that it is altogether a mistaken idea that by their new arrangement all power was transferred from the hands of the proper and rightful Chiefs and Warriors into that of the Committee. It only defined the power of the Chiefs, as well as that of the Committee, without impairing, and taking away, from the Warriors and "common