Petition Against the Treaty of New Echota, 1836

And the circumstance of a few individuals making a treaty, vitally affecting the liberties, the property and the personal rights of a whole people, appears to us so utterly repugnant to reason and justice and every dictate of humanity...
...with full confidence that under such circumstances the voice of weakness itself will be heard in its cry for Justice.

The National Cherokee Council claimed the treaty was invalid because the Principal Chief did not sign it and the Cherokee that did were not authorized to.

Petition Against the Treaty of New Echota 1836

This petition signed by 3,352 Cherokee, urged the Senate not to ratify the Treaty of New Echota because it was “so utterly repugnant to reason and justice and every dictate of humanity.”

National Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate