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laws will not punish the innocent, and that no other satisf
action can be given, but by the punishment of the real ^individual
^actual & real offenders - I don't wish to recapitulate, nor bring
forward any former transgressions committed by the Indians,
other ways, I could easily recite a great fifty murders
that have been committed of a very recent date in the time
of profound peace, and some of them murder by their
principal leaders - I am sincerely disposed to obliviate
^on my part all enormities that have taken place between the Citizens
of tennessee, & the Cherokees been committed by the Cherokees before the last f hoping
it is the wish of that nation to be ^become entirely ^friendly and pacific; but
on the other hand, should the nation authorize any
murders to be committed upon any of our ^good & innocent Citizens; that I
Shall ^then take the most ready & early method, to of bringing
them to a sense of their duty - I am ^much pleased to hear
that M^rs Williams's child, is to be restored to the mother,
it has been a long time detained contrary to their the engag-
ments & promisses in their treaty with the United
States - say nothing about the baseness & inhumanity of so cruel and act -I request you will also be [pleased?] to let them know that
I shall ^also expect, that they will ^in a short time return Miss Johnson,
^taken from this County that have been so long in captivity, and within so
small a distance of her friends & own fathers house, and likewise
a number of horses that they have ^lately stolen Accept the respects of sir

Your obed.^t Ser.^t

Silas Dinsmore esq^r.