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regular delegation; but, on the contrary, it expresses an earnest wish that "the matter should be settled by them," and "the heartfelt satisfaction" in the New Echota deputation, but more especially "their constituents" would feel, at such a result. At the same time, they express their readiness to give up their own doings & yield up the business to the delegation, if they, "in their wisdom" should "consider that a better treaty could be made." -- Here, it is evident, that the current of feeling, even in the New Echota Council itself, bore strongly in favor of the National delegation, and that, the Junto were compelled to use covert & cautious measures, to hold together the seventy nine. They must use guarded & respectful language to the Delegation; very different from the tone of the writer in a subsequent letter. They must place the name of Mr John Ross, at the head of their Committee: they must not embarrass the efforts of the rightful representatives of the people. And what was all this for? Evidentally, to conciliate those of the seventy nine people, who were not in the secret of the train: and who would soon have thinned their ranks had had "they understood their true condition." The whole proceeding carries the marks of nullity on its very face. The New Echota Treaty was sustained by out works of another kind than just authority, or it never could have been palmed upon the Government as a valid transaction. Having trespassed so long upon your patience, we are compelled to cut short our review, leaving most of the topics in the concluding letter unnoticed. Several of them, however, will be found answered, in the substance, in the foregoing strictures: and we pledge ourselves that every injurious item contained in it, is susceptible of an equally satisfactory solution. There is one point, however, affecting the reputation