Minutes of the Conference with the Cherokees
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Minutes of the conference at Coyatee with the chiefs and warriors of the Cherokees, in which Blount describes the circumstances of his entrance into the Cherokee town and the celebrations in preparation for Blount's address to the tribe.
As soon as I entered the space, a firing commenced in the manner of a feu de joie and handsomely kept up until I had passed through. Shouts of joy instantly followed, and immediately after I had
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alighted, under the standard of the United States, I was surrounded by the whole number with countenances demonstrative of more joy than I had heretofore been a witness of.
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