EMIGRATION OF INDIANS
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Proposition Of Cherokee delegation to Cen.r,,


AMoKE DIsTRIcr, AeUoHEE CAMP


July %, 1898.


oR In respectfully presenting for your CON.
sideratlon the following suggestions in relation to
!no removal OF the Cherokee people to the West,
It may be proper very briefly 10 advert 10 certain
facts which have an important bearing on the
subject.


IL Is known TO you, sir, that tho undersigned
delegates of the Cherokee nation, submitted to the
honorable the Secretary of War the project of o
treaty, on the basis Of removal Of the Cherokee
nation from " all the lands now occupied by them
eastward of the Mississippi" and on terms the
most Of which the Hon. Secretary expresscshimself
as mot unwilling to grant, The present con-
don OF the Cherokee people is such. that all dis.
Pute as to the time of etni grafton is set at rest Be-
ing already severed from their homes and their
property-their persons being under the absolute
control OF the commanding general-and beinp
altogether dependent on the benevolence and hu
manlty OF that high officer for the suspension of
their transportation TO the West at a season and
under circumstances in which sickness and death
were to be approhended 10 an alarming extent. all
Inducements TO prolong their stay in this country
are taken away; and, however strong their at
tachment to the homes of their fathers NAV be.
their interest and their wishes now are to depart
as early as may be consistent with their safety,
which will appear from the following extract from
their proceedings on the subject


:" ResOlued by tie national committee and coun.
Gil and people of the Cherokee nation, an general
council assembled, That it is the decided sense and
desire Of this general council that the whole bu-
siness OF the emigration Of our people shall be un
dertaken by the nation and the delegation are
hereby advised to negotiate the necessary arrange
ments with the commanding general for that pur-
pose.''


In conformity, therefore, with the wishes Of
our people, and with the fact that the delegation
has been referred by tho honorable the Secretary
OF war to conclude the negotiation, in relation to
with the commanding general in the
Cherokee country, we beg leave, therefore, very
respectfully to propose


hat the Cherokee nation will undertake the
whole business of removing their people to the
west of the river Mississippi;


That the emigration shall commence at the
time stipulated in pledge given to you by our
people, as a condition of the suspension of their
transportation until the sickly season should pass
away. unless prevented by some cause which
shall appear reasonable to yourself;


That the per capita expense of removal be bas-
ed on tho calculation of one wagon and team, and
SIX riding horses, being required for fifteen per-
sons;


That the Cherokees shall have tho selection of
physlciahs and such other persons as may be re-
CURED for the safe and comfortable conducting Of
the several deiachments to the place of destina-
ton-their compensation to be paid by the United
States. -
We have the honoror to be your obeden, sorv,,s


JOHN ROSS.
ELIJAH HICKS.


JAMES BROWN.
r EDWARD GUNTER.


SAMUEL GUNTER, his mark.


SlTUWAKEE, his mark.


WHITE PATH, his mark.


r. TAYLOR.


Major General WINFIELD Scorr,


q. S. Arn.y, Commanding 8c.