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to enable missionaries to rebuild their stations wherever the Cherokees might reside. But now it seems that pay for mission improvements must all come directly from the friends of the nation i.e. from the price of the land. Now suppose the stations should be valued at $20,000 or more, as they probably will be. This will be taxing every individual citizen, red, black, or white, upwards of one Dollar in cash, to be taken from money which would otherwise be paid to them at the west when they may especially need it. Now suppose that instead of this money we were to have received 40,000 acres of land, what would our Cherokee friends think of us? But we might just as well take 40,000 acres of land, as $20,000 in cash. But in either case we must stand prepared before the Cherokees, and lose the character, at once. of honest men. This being gone, what should we have left or how could we ever look the Cherokees in the face at their new homes?

And further, would it be just for us to be kind for our improvements in the same manner The Cherokees are for theirs? You have hundred acres of wild land. you tell your neighbor if he will clear and fence it, he shall have the use of it three years. After that, if he occupies it, he must pay rent. We have our friend Cherokee land not only there, but

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