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PuBLIc MEETING.-ln pursuance with q previous but short notice a public meelinr. quIte numerously attended, was held at this place on Monday. The immediate cause of the meeting was the late outrages perpetrated by certain of the military at Fort Gibson upon the Cherokees, and which are not The only lawleSs acts from the same source with Tn our limits. The object in eal!ng t was to take into consideration the propriety of adopting such lawful and peaceable measures as may best be calculated to proioctthe Che rokees against further similar outrages. and whether the removal of the United States troops out oi our country is not absolutely necessary for the welfare and prosperity of the Cherokee nation. Accordingly, after the organization of the meeting, q series Of reso- lulons were adopted expressive of it's senli- ments upon these subjects, and appointing committee 10 memorialiZe the Government and urge upon 1t, in respectful manner, the very great importance to the Cherokee peo- pie ot the abandonment of Fort Gibson. The meeting and resolutions were not the offspring ot groundless prejudice against the united States military, but the natural results ol the fragrant wrongs that have been perpe- trated upon Cherokee citizens and property, the revolting principle established in their courts of Enquiry and the vice and immoral lty that do, and always have existed, about the reserve, dilIusing their pernicious inhu- ences throughout the country,-C Cherokee .Rdc0cate.