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or convenient. And they have not disappointed us by taking back what they once gave, but on the contrary, have handled us on the lap of kind indulgence, and in a thousand ways done more than they had promised. We, on our part, assured them that what we were doing was of pure benevolence, designed simply for their good. And as some of your people considered it hardly possible for any white men to be so kind as to do all this from mere love to them, and therefore began to suspect that we should hereafter call for some of their land, or bring some charges against them, we assured them that we were honest in our declarations, and that they never would be called upon to pay for every thing we were doing for them. Thus we are pledged to the Cherokees not to call upon their treasury for one cent as pay for our labours or improvements. Were it may be enquired whether we expected to loose all our improvements in case the Cherokees sold their country? I can only reply that we have done nothing for the sake of pay, yet from the general liberality of the U. States government, we have indulged a hope that when the country should be purchased, Congress would at the request of the chiefs, and the different missionary societies, make some extra appropriations