Qftte Pg9acipai Glt1ef to the General Coua-

 eit of ihe Cherokee yNatioa.

 To the Committee and Council,

 in General Council convened

 Friends and Flsl5oao Citszens.-The constituted authorities of Georgia hay- ing assumed the power to exercise sovereign jurisdiction over a large por- tion of our Territory, and our Political Father, the Chief Magistrate of the United States, having declared that he possesses no power to oppose, or inter- iere with Georgia in this matter, our relations with the U. States are placed ill strange dilemma. The grave as- peet of this picture calls for your calm and serious reflections. l have there fore deemed 1t my incumbent duty, on this extraordinary occasion, to convene fhe General Council of the Cherokee Nation.

 The prayers of our memorials before she Congress of the United States have not been answered. But it is gratify- ing to know that numerous similar pc titions from various sections of the Uni ted States have been presented in fla vour ofour cause by a large portion of the most respectable class of the com- munity, and that our rights have been ably vindieated in Congress by some of the most distinguished statesmen. But notwithstanding the unanswerabIe argu- ments which have been advanced, un- der these appeals, there seems to have been settled determination, by a small majority in Congress, to make fartheref forts to bring about a removal of all the Indians east of the Mississippi, beyond that great river, by making the question d general one, and acting upon the principles of policy and expediency-. the respective claims and rights of each tribe un,ier existing treaties with the United States were viewed only as a secondary consideration consequently, an act has been passed @'To provide for anexchange oflands with the Indians re- siding in any of the states CT territories, and for their removal west of the Mis- sissippi.' The House of Representa- tives, however, by a very large maiori- ty, adopted this amendment which has been accepted by the Senate, ssProyided that nothing in this actshail construed as authorizing or directing the violation of any existing treaty between the Uni ted States and any of the Indian tribes. J

 It is much to be regretted that we find in the reports ofsome of the acting Agents of the General Government and other designing and interested individu- als, that our true motives, disposition and condition have been grossly perver- ted and misrepresented. This may in par: be attributed to want of correct and flll information upon the points oI which they pretend to speak, ,andin insome respects to an inclination to deceive the public with the view of effectins certain political ends.

 The fee simple title of our soil has beer vaiaiy asserted to be in the people of seorgia and that state has arrogated to herself the power to exercise sove. reign jurisdiction over us, and by legis. satiyc enactments, has declared all our