Meriwether, JamesUnited States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027Campbell, Duncan Green, 1787-18281823-10-25This document is a talk from U.S. treaty commissioners Duncan G. Campbell and James Meriwether to the General Council of the Cherokee Nation, dated October 25, 1823. Campbell and Meriwether respond to the Cherokees rejection of their proposals on negotiating further land cessions. They condescendingly remind the Cherokees that they are mere occupants of the soil and warn them that they are unfairly accusing the states of Georgia and Tennessee of wrongdoing.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.text/htmlimage/jpegch071engManuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, State Library Cherokee Collection, box 3, folder 5, document ch071.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/Cherokee Indians--Land tenure[Talk] 1823 Oct. 25, Newtown, to the General Council of the Cherokee Nation / Duncan G. Campbell [and] Ja[me]s MeriwetherText