Show tae CHE the annual message of john rose rosa principal chief of the cherokee nation appears in in the fayetteville Fayett ville independent respecting the proposed territory terri territory tor y of nebraska the message says you will have learned through the public prints that there was a bill before co congress on reas to establish anew a new territory to be called elthe the territory of nebraska and although that bill failed to become a law yet the recollection of the events which led to our oar removal from the east of the mississippi sipi river to this country and of the fact that the boundaries indicated for the proposed territory of nebraska would if established encroach on the lands of the Obero Cherok kees eess may awaken in our minds serious apprehensions as to our future quiet iet and security but holding as we do X the repeated assurances of the governments government and the stipulations of solemn treaties that the lands of the cherokees shall never be embraced within the limits of any state or territory without aitho at their consent it cannot be supposed that any such encroachment on our rights would be deliberately and intentionally all y made by the government I 1 would suggest 9 t however thi the propriety of entering a 11 solemn lemn protest against such an extension of boundaries of any state or territory as bauld in any degree contravene the rights guaranteed to the cherokee nation by the government of the united states P |