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that some persons who are acquainted with its contents [word cut off]
make [strange symbol] statements to the President against his making
such an appointment, the statements alluded to I am
taught to believe will be to the following effect, that at
the Treaty of Tellico in the talks public or private between
the Commissioners of the United States, and the Cherokees
the latter were given to understand that the present Ferry
across Clinch, which is much to their emolument should
in future be the ferry across that river under the fifth
Article of the Treaty of Holston,"-

The answer to such statements is, that Nations are
Governed in their intercourse with each other by the Treaties
formed between them, and not by the Conversation that
passes between the negotiators while they are forming