![]() ![]() In the course of the winter they presented petitions to Congress. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon after their arrival in the city they presented to Congress a petition from our National Council, asking for the interposition of that body in our behalf, especially with reference to the laws of Georgia, which were suspended in a most terrifying manner over a large part of our population, and protesting in the most decided terms against the operation of these laws. Some months ago a delegation was appointed by the constituted authorities of the Cherokee Nation, to repair to the city of Washington, and, in behalf of this nation to lay before the government of the United States such representations as should seem most likely to secure to us as a people that protection, aid, and good neighborhood, which had been so often promised to us, and of which we stand in great need. John Ross, Address to the People of the United States, by the General Council of the Cherokee Nation, July 1830 25 Head Quarters, Eastern Division Cherokee Agency, Ten. Tracy, Memoir of the Life of Jeremiah Evarts, Late Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1845), 442–448, available at Orders No. ![]()
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