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Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Richmond County, Virginia
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The Cherokee Nation, under Principal Chief John Ross, refuses to surrender and asserts rights against oppression by Georgia and federal governments. Ross's message to the council reviews the controversy without expecting removal. Presidential agents seek to enroll Cherokees for emigration at Governor Gilmer's request. The council meets at Chatooga to avoid arrest by Georgia guards.
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Chatooga
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agents endeavoring to enroll indians for emigration; success unknown. council meeting relocated to avoid conflict with georgia guard.
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The Cherokees have no intention of surrendering at discretion, but are determined to assert their rights to the last. The message of John Ross, principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, was laid before the council. It complains, as usual, of the oppression of the State and General Governments, and reviews the occurrences connected with the controversy, but holds out no expectation of removal. Special agents are now among them, sent by the President at the urgent request of Governor Gilmer, endeavoring to enroll the Indians for emigration. The meeting of the Council at Chatooga, instead of the former seat of government, New Echota, was to avoid a conflict with the Georgia guard, whose duty it would have been to have arrested them.