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pe secured d to you.

 i0. That all the improvements upon the ceded territory, which add reai val for.

 f Il. lhatample provision be made for the support of schools and teachers. and of biaeksmiihs, &c. Tor lht sut,pi, of steel and iron, and for tic erceilon of mills, school-houses, Cherokces council souses, and houses for a few ot your principal chiefs.

 l2. That rife and equipments be gwen to each male adult; that a quan- tiy of blankets be allowed to your iati4- llies, togethe. with axes, hoes, wheels. cards and looms.

 I5. That your stock be valued and paid for by the United States. Ii. That the annnities due to you by former treaties, be paid to you west of the Mississippi.

 D. That provision be made for your orphan children.

 1 lo. That protection be guaranteed to you against the hostile efforts of any other Indians.

 IF. It is the wish of the President that all your people should remove, and he IS therefore unwilling that all re- servatlons of land should be made in the seded territory. Still lie would not make this all indispensable condition, but would agree, should it hc found necessary, that reservations should be made for few of your people, in sit asuons and sf fuc,iinsfstc4s ren- dering sucha measure proper, and wilhs ID the scope of his legal authority.--- But yonr people nus di.ttlcl, uHdcr- l stand, that those who remain will be- come citizens Of the State in whicL they may reside, and that all the relations between them and tie United States. founded upon previous circumstances as Indians, must cease.

 These arc the general terms l have been directed by the President to effer to you. They form all outline of an arrangement, which can be filled up. when you arc prepared to enter iuto a negotiation. The details, and any otl,- CT stlpulations you may ask, will moro properly be discussed and determined. when yonr views of the matter are keoWa, and the ultimate mode of pro- ceedings adopted.

 If you are prepared 10 assume these Ipropositions as the basis of q nepotia- lion, you can appoint your agents to come on to this place, clothed with au. 1 'horify to act, or the President will ap- point commissonersto meet youincoun cil and conclude the affair.

 l cannot but hope that you will sec. in this frank and liberal offer, full eyi- dence of the desire of the President that the difficulties of your present sit. nation may be removed, and your fu. ture destlnies placed beyond the reach of those causes which have occasioned such misery tothe Indian race. Shut your ears, entreat you, 10 bad ! counse1s, fany such should be offered you. Whatever may be told to You. it is impossible you can remain where you now are and prosper. And if you persist in the effort, the time of regret will come, ] am afraid, after the most injury to yourselves. Your friend,

 iSlgned) LEWIS CASS. 1 1o1te .Gherohees cast efate .uississippi Le General Council conre,aed ot Red Chm.

 Cherohee Nation, .4ug. C, 1892. The Hon. r. Cass, Secretary of War.

 SR-Your letter bearing date the iuh oi April last, containing certain propositions as the general terms upon which the President IS willing 10 treat with this nation, has been received through the hands of Elisha w. Ches- l ter, Esq. 1t is with much astonishment ] we learn from this letter the President has beenlnformed, that change had probably taken place in the sentiment this nation heretofore entertained on the subject ofa removal to the country. west of the Mississippi, and that propo- sitions, from tlte government, having that object in view, would be favora. bly, received.

 The subject matter has been fully considered, together with the peculiar endorsements that now surround US; and in compliance with your reqbesf, we proceed to our reply. In the first place we wish to call your attention to l the decisions of the nation on former occasions on this subject, and to inform the President that the trne sentiments of the Cherokee people remain the

 