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enrolled emigrants, of they do not speedily accept of the liberal propositions offered them for a treaty, for it is this class of men alone who have made all the difficulties the Cherokees have experienced and prevented an adjustment of them." To these remarks, I will conclude by saying that great injustice has been done to those who are thus unsparingly changed by Mr Schermerhorn. I, John Rofs, am one of them. I speak for myself, and for those and of those, whom I do know better than it is possible for Mr Schermerhorn to know them, ad I pronounce his declarations and changes against us to be a foul calumny and are void of truth. And the Cherokee people are ready to sustain the truth of what I say, and the respectable citizens of Tennessee and other states, who are acquainted with my character, well known that I love the truth and will not lie, and that I am also an honest man and that I have never injured the rights and interests of my fellow countrymen and will not knowingly commit any act that will destroy their present peace and future prosperity or betray the trust and confidence they have reposed in me.