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To the Committee and Council In General Council Convened Friends and Fellow Citizens: It has been pleased to great author of our existence, to permit you once more to assemble under your legislative authority, to deliberate and act upon the affairs of your much oppressed and aggrieved nation in the discharge of their sacred trust and solemn duty, it is to be hoped that you may be duly impressed with the importance of being united among yourselves, in order that your deliberations and acts may not give general satisfaction to the people, but that they may prove to be salutary and permanently beneficial to the common welfare of our afflicted nation. Being persuaded that their hope will be fully realized, proceed to present such subjects for your information, as will necessarily require your deliberation and action. The documents containing the proceedings of the delegation at Washington, were fully read and explained to you at the extra session of the General Council in May last; as, also, the contents of a printed document Template:Unclear to be a Treaty between John F. Schermerhorn on the part of the United States and John Ridge and others, unauthorized individuals of this nation, together with an address from the President of the United States to the Cherokee people, there to Template:Unclear: which Treaty, however, was considered merely as containing a series of propositions for presentation before the nation in General Council, for the consideration and Template:Unclear of the