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and perish because it is a valuable country to us. We are but a weak nation of people and look up to you for help. We are but boys in comparison to those who have sent us to you, but hope our talks will be taking as if it were the men that sent us here tas the great men of our land throught that our father would tak epity on us as we were his children. The secretary of War. Brothers. I have well considered what yesterday. I see no difficulty in adjusting all dissrate but two unclear your claim upon the land of Cumberland river and preventing the bad young unclear on both sides from their depredations. You claim lands on Cumberland river which have been confirmed by two treaties unclear by yourselves. One at Hopewell 1785 and the other at Hoolston 1781. It has all along been believed by your brother General Washington that you made thier treaties with your full understading and free consent. The Characters of the Agents employed by the United States forbid the suspicion that they have attempted to deceive your father General Washington. All this business was talked at Nashville, over in the presence of Nantuaka and Shinska who are now present with Governor Blount two years ago, when it appeared the lands upon Cumberland had belonged to the Chickesans who also had relinquished theirs to the United States. None of your people now live on Cumberland the white have settled there upon a narrow strip. Number than ten thousand souls. the gaine of course is gone and therefore the land would be our unclear to you but if this was not the case, the white people could not be removed. They would first die in defience of thier lands which they consider as sacreadly conformed to them by treaties with you.