it was addressed. "My troops," said the humane and sympa- thizing general, "already oceupy unany positions in the conntry that you are to abandon, and thousands and thousands are ap- proaching fron every quarter, to render resistance and escape alike hopeless, All those troops, regular and militia, are your friends. Receive them and confide in them as such; obey them when they tell you that you can remain no longer in this brave, and the desire paiuful duty in mercy.*

"Chiefs, headmen, and warriors, wil you then, by resistance, compcl us to resort to arms? God forbid. Or will you by fiight seck to hide yourselves in mountains and forests, and us to hunt you down? Remember that in pur suit it may be impossible to avoid confliets. The blood of the country. Soldiers are as kind-hearted as of every one of us is to execate our thus oblige white man or tlhe blood of the red inan may be spilt; and if spilt, howerer aceidentally, it may be impossible for the dis crcet and liumane among you or among us to prevent a general war and carnage. Think of this, my Cherokce brethren ! I am an old warrior, and have been present at many a sceno of slaughter; but spare me, I beseech you, the horror of witness- ing the destruction of the Cherokees. 1Do not cven wait for the close approueh of the troops, but make such preparations for emigration Landing, or to Guinter's Landing, where yon will be roceived in kindness by officers selected for the purpose. *This is the address of a warrior to warriors May its entrcatics be kindly received, and may the God of both prosper the Aineri- cans and Clherokecs, and preserve them long in peace and fricndship with cach other."

The reply of the council of the Cherokce nation to this proe- lamation is worthy to be put ou record. They make no fur ther protest against going; they simply ask the privilege of undertaking the whole charge of the removal themsclves. They say: The present condition of the Cherokee people is sneh as you can, and hasten to this place, to Ross's