“We… appeal to the Senate of the United States”
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“And, Whereas we are further informed that this compact is to be presented to the Senate of the United States for ratification, as a treaty; we the undersigned, do, with the deepest anxiety and the most respectful earnestness, appeal to the Senate of the United States, against the ratification of the same. And in entering our protest before that honorable and August Body, we again humbly Solicit their attention to the following points on account of which we so urgently depreciate the ratification of said instrument. Viz. the persons who are represented as acting in behalf of the Cherokees in this matter, are wholly unauthorized. And the circumstance of a few individuals making a treaty vitally affecting the liberties, the property and the personal rights of a whole people, appears to be so utterly repugnant to reason and justice and every dictate of humanity, that we come to the Senate of the United States with full confidence that under such circumstances the voice of weakness itself will be heard in the cry for justice.”
