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official character of the delegation, a Treaty would be negotiated with them, under their authority, as the representatives of the nation -- Mr Ross remarked that we well remembered the remarks of the Secretary of War, to which Col. Mason had alluded, and that we should not forget them -- therefore, we were not disposed to present any proposition excepting such as we believed the Government could and in justice, ought to, accede to -- Mr Ross then desired Col: Mason to state, what stronger obligations the Government were under to Georgia and Alabama, than to north Carolina and Tennessee, for the purchase of the Cherokee lands within the limits of those states. Col: Mason simply remarked that Georgia & Alabama had manifested a feverish feeling on the subject; and that the Government had determined, as he had informed us. Mr Ross observed that those feverish feelings were unreasonable and unjust; therefore, they ought not to be encouraged: -- that, as for Alabama, she had no claim claim whatever to the lands, even should the Cherokee title be purchased; and that the ordinance of Congress under which she came into existence, barred her from interrupting the Indian rights -- that she was too young to be indulged in her unreasonable pets. Col: Mason suggested that we should present a proposition in writing. Mr Ross said that if Col: Mason would receive such a one to be submitted without reference to what had already passed, and that if Col: Mason would reply to it also in writing, that we would do so. Col Mason said that he was bound to state, the the Government had decided not to negotiate on the basis of reserving any portion of our lands lying within the limits of Georgia & Alabama, to the Cherokee Nation -- Mr