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William P Ross, Cherokee
Speech
To the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory:
A meeting of the Executive Council was held at Tallequah, on the 14th and 16th insts., to take into consideration the disturbed state of affairs growing out of the painfully large number of murders and acts of violence which have been recently committed. The deeds demoralize the country, spread more or less apprehension among the people, endanger our most valuable rights, and bring shame upon our name and character. Believing it is largely within the power, of the officers of the nation to suppress these crimes by the exercise of energetic efforts in bringing the perpetrators to punishment under the law, it was deemed advisable that your attention should be directly called to the subject, and such instructions given as would seem most calculated to accomplish the object in view. You are therefore urged to increased diligence in your efforts to prevent the introduction of ardent spirits into the country, as it is the most fruitful source of the crime committed; second, to enforce fully the provisions of the act against carrying unlawful weapons; third, not to place on guard any person hitherto charged with crime, of known intemperate habits, or overbearing or disreputable character.
A meeting of the Executive Council was held at Tallequah, on the 14th and 16th insts., to take into consideration the disturbed state of affairs growing out of the painfully large number of murders and acts of violence which have been recently committed. The deeds demoralize the country, spread more or less apprehension among the people, endanger our most valuable rights, and bring shame upon our name and character. Believing it is largely within the power, of the officers of the nation to suppress these crimes by the exercise of energetic efforts in bringing the perpetrators to punishment under the law, it was deemed advisable that your attention should be directly called to the subject, and such instructions given as would seem most calculated to accomplish the object in view. You are therefore urged to increased diligence in your efforts to prevent the introduction of ardent spirits into the country, as it is the most fruitful source of the crime committed; second, to enforce fully the provisions of the act against carrying unlawful weapons; third, not to place on guard any person hitherto charged with crime, of known intemperate habits, or overbearing or disreputable character.
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