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on behalf of the nation. Nor is the counterpart of this affair, more in accordance with the principles of equity and fair dealing. The commissioners, in a letter to the Principal Chief, dated Cherokee Agency July 10th, 1835, state the views of the President, and the principles in which they were instructed to proceed in effecting, a Treaty with the Cherokees. They say, "we are persuaded the object of the Government in taking a census is, to enable it to deal in the most fair & just manner with the Cherokee nation." And again, "The Commissioners in their instructions are required to obtain the consent of a majority of your head-men & warriors to a Treaty, to make it valid and for this purpose, it is necessary to have an accurate census taken now." But how are these instructions regarded? The criterion furnished by the census, had it been respected, would, after all rule & all authority had been pruned down, have secured to us some approximation to fair dealing. But, no! The instructions of the President are discarded, and the very letter of them outraged. At a pretended General Council, of the Chiefs, head-men & people, a Treaty is concluded under the sanction of a popular vote of seventy nine, out of a population reported by the Commissioner himself as about eighteen thousand souls. And it has been observed that even of this final number, several were emigrants from Arkansas. From the apology at the close of the writer's account of the Treaty, it appears that some, perhaps many, of the seventy nine were induced to vote on that occasion, through the influence of "delusion." For it was suggested, (these doubtless were not in the secret of the counter-works), "that, possibly, they might be mistaken, in supporting Mr Ross's delegation would not, and could not, make a Treaty." To obviate these objections and to lull suspicion, a deputation is appointed, to address the delegation in Washington. (This address utters not a whisper derogatory to the regular delegation;