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Georgia? Have you not told us that the President has the same love to wards tw as his white children; and would not such a treatment of us, as you seem to be apprehensive of, be partial and wrong? Brothers, we have rejected your propositions be* cause we love our lands and have none to dispose of. We rejected the claims of Georgia, because we know that the nation owes her nothing under the treaties cited. We rejected the propo sition of the Agent, because we think that it is not expedient to grant it, inas much as we hove given him all the pri vileges granted him by treaty, and are ever disposed to support his authority as an Agent, so far as our citizens may be implicated with transgressions.— 1nius far we have not acted with in gratitude towards the General Govern ment, in rejecting these several propo sitions; it is a privilege and a right which belongs to us, to use our pleas ure in complying or rejecting. There fore, your charge of ingratitude, we conceive, is not consistent with liber ality. Your propositions for a special cession of a tract of land, caunot be acceded to. The offer of money is not a consideration which can effect to alter the rejection which has already been made. You have been told, in positive terms, that one foot of land cannot be sold. You state that you are informed that the Council had, .on former occasions, set much longer than the present session. Your inform ant is mistaken. Twenty-five days is the longest session we ever had at this place, and the present session has now entered the twenty-seventh day. You have no grounds to complain of a sudden close of our negotiations; the subject has been fully discussed. We now consider this a final close of our negotiation, and beg leave to take you by the right hand, as we met, in bro therly friendship, and as such we may ever continue. PATH;*! KILLER, Principal Chief, his MAJOR X RIDGE, Sp’kr. of Coun. mark. JNO. ROSS, Pres’t. N. Com. A. M’COY, Clerk N. Com. To D. G. Campbell & James Merriwether, Esqs. United States' Commissioners. October, 1823. The Board 1 , after deliberation, de termined that any further communi cation'to the Council, at this time, was unnecessary, and' therefore ad journed sine die. Attest, WM. F. IIAY, Secretary. COMMUNICATIONS, [concluded.] Secondly, I shall notice his charges on “vague testimony.” First, I am accused of having ori ginated the charge against a chief, who on account of it had been depos ed. 2d. At my recommendation two o- ther Indians had been created chiefs in bis stead. 3d. I had a wish to be made a Treasurer of the Creek Nation. 4th. To have the power to decide up on all claims arising under the Inter course law. 5th. Of making charges of the foulest kind against the Creek Agent. 6th. Of stealing and imposing on the Creeks for their marks to these charges. 7th. Influencing two In dians to implicate their Agent for pass ing on them counterfeit money, and for being apparently pleased by the expression of my countenance in this open attack of these instruments on their agent, and for interfering in the concerns of the Creek nation. Hav ing made the above charges, he is compelled to say something more to make them important, and what a ter rible, dangerous and wicked creature must be he, who is the subject of these charges; “The overthrow of a chief, the peace and harmony of the Creeks, the starvation of hundreds of them, the continuation of the con troversy with Georgia, the ruin of the agent’s character, and contempt of the government and policy of the United States, all appeared to be cheap sa crifices in the view of this interfering agent, in the attainment of this great end of having a treasury &c.”—It is the part of Col. McKenney to prove his charges and not mine. But in stead of doing this he evades the ne cessity of calling to his aid, proof, and Substitutes for it, a lecture on his charity and mercy. He says, “It is always painful to form opinions on vague testimony, when those opinions implicate character. I would make it a matter of principle to avoid do ing. so, and would apply the same rule to Indians with the addition of pity.” The word vague, means according to Walker, who is our English Standard, wandering, vagrant, vagabond, unfix ed, unsettled, undetermined* Col. Mc Kenney would “make it a matter of principle to avoid the implication of character. How kind and Benevo lent! What a “sweet thing” he car ries under his tongue for the afflicted children of the forest! They are objects of his peculiar regard and he would fondly in such cases, “add pity” in consequence of their ignor ance of “moral and intellectual lights.” Notwithstanding this smooth doctrine, liis practice, and his profes sion do not go hand in hand. He im plicates my character on U vague tes timonyWho deserves most pity, Col. McKenney with his intellectual and moral lights convicted of acting contrary to his “matter of principle,” or the Indian destitute of such lights who adheres both to truth and princi ple? “Who steals my purse, steals trash, His something- nothing. ’Twas mine, ’tis his, anil lias been slave to thousands. But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that, which not enricheB him.” The foul charges against the agent were written in the Creek Nation, without my knowledge, by Mr. Vann and Eli Jacobs, and two sets of char ges were brought to me by a deputa tion of Creeks to transcribe, with a request to affix their marks and names to the transcripts as they were in the original and forward them to Washing ton. These charges were indeed foul, but who is to blame? That man who commits foul things and occasions the charge, or those who are compelled to make them? It is and was not manly in Col. McKenny to have inves tigated these charges in my absence. He says he did it in council, it may be so, but it was not done in Tuclcua- bocchee, where the Creeks and Col. McKenney ought to have moved upon me and demonstrated my villany for forgery, and disgraced me then!!— No sir, that would not do in tenderness for Crowell’s character; it was safer to do it in secret and publish it at Washington. The legislature of Georgia and the Executive thereof made charges previous to the Greeks if possible “more foul,” but as they were interested in the success of Col. McKenney their Representatives in Congress have united with others in condemning my conduct. Crowell stands charged for mal-practice in his agency, and so long as the executive send their special agents to him for explanations, he will be always ac quitted. The only movement the Executive ever made on him was to ask him to resign; but he answered the Secretary of War, in a plaintive tone of letter of refusal expressing that his only hope for safety and protection from the persecutions of his enemies, was in the Executive. This took place at Washington. Thirdly. The treaty was not effect ed at Tuckaubachee or in Council, as Col. McKenney has reported, but at Broken Arrow, or Fort Mitchel, as the date of that instrument will prove; and then not with four hundred and ninety and nine chiefs, but with five only, subject to a future ratification of it by the Senate of the U. S. and an Indian Council, the first treaty that ever was required to undergo the for malities of ratification by an Indian Council, which proves that Col. Mc Kenney had not concluded it with the proper authority. The Indians according to McKen ney were starving and compelled to subsist on roots and berries, but when he paid them the advance considera tion, it was in goods and not bread.— Query. How could the indians sub sist on berries out of their season, and not to be had in the latter part of No vember? I am accused for creating division among the Creeks, when they have been known always a divided people into the Upper and Lower Towns, to History and Geography. I am accu- cused for interfering in their concerns, when at their invitation and not with out it, I have attended their Councils. I am charged for contempt of the U- nited States and its policy; and what is that policy? It is the removal of the Indians from the lands of their fathers, from their comfortable fire sides, and plantations and in respect to the Cherokees, from the means of education and privileges of Religion, to the barren wilderness oflthe Rocky Mountain*, west of the Mississippi.— It is to unnationalize them here and nationalize them with the deer and buffaloe, With them to perish.—To this policy I declare myself opposed, and the charge of contempt to the U- nited States l positively deny. JOHN RIDGE. SoKMA ®4T 19 1828. TSPT, AD WWSL/l CUrfEWO-A TKA AD JrRSJBoV (Wt® GWy JP-G?A, ADefJ'R Aq<»A ARW®y sqwA drbaa aoup arl- 0eB(F T<re<»A<>*-Ay, RIVUZ DRBGc® TCP* e<»Aov Ay,GdBy *i,cr Ay, gaop. DB«yu JX.0P Alr.pqoBS. D4P'P qBO-BAUO-eiV* (PA- TT, I-P^V SBO-BoBET. iWByB .$p Asy G<£y Aqc»A. cr ei.v’^atr’dtyh *lgr. o 3 aa- Gr^Miynzo- tfiLGr O’OBo-Iaa ajup uhte- <d<F. 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One thing we are pleased to no tice in one of these pieces, & we hope our white readers will- consider the sentiments here advanced riot only the sentiments of an individual, but of a majority of the Cherokee*. We al lude to the remarks of (prqd-A on that class of our citizens who have dis graced u* by shooting arrows arid beg ging money. We have stated in a for mer number that o 3 Tqo-A [John Huss] does riot speak a word' of English. June 19,1828. My friends, in the twelfth number of the Cherokee Phoenix a writer over the signature of owy jpgta [A lover of tlie Cherokees] has this remark.— “It will be well that the National l Committee should be composed men acquainted with letters, and tl Council of full Indians.” ' For my pai I am not of the same opinion. I ai prebend that the writer made his r mark rather inconsiderately. Such state of things would not be right, would be well that they should mixed. It is true indeed that lean men are wise. Those ignorant of let! ters cannot bear comparison wi them. But not all. There is a di versity among them, as well as amoi the unlearned. A part only are wise; for some are learned to no purpose, and are excelled in wisdom by sue! as arc entirely ignorant of letters But chiefly on this ground I dissenl from the opinion of “A lover of tin Cherokees,” that the General Cbun cil should be so divided, as that those! who are acquainted with letters should constitute one body, and those ignotJ ant of letters the other. It woulffhe a great evil, for it would appear like! creating a division among the people) and we know the remark often made] by the unlettered, that those who talk! English are overbearing. Dissensionjl will soon follow if such a course is pur sued. It would be well that they should be mixed. For, moreover, according to the Constitution, each body has a negative on the other | They ought to be on equal footing For it is the power which they pos sess of rejecting or amending each o- f ther’s acts which causes difference? between theritf. 1 My Friends, let us be considerate v ‘ when the time of election for the Ge- |®ji neral Council arrives. Every man ill ought to give his vote with delibera- kl| tion. The Council is not to be chosen | ft inconsiderately. When the time of *#’ election arrives, then be deliberate, ^ That is a correct saying, “When you see a man who you think will labor j well foT' the good of us Cherokees, ; then vote for him.” It would be dan- H gerolis to elect members of Council hastily. For it is evident what thoughts the people ef Georgia have respecting us, wishing to obtain our lands. This should be a motive to deliberation in the election of Coun cillors. Let us do it carefully, with the best of our powers. Our Chiefs and Legislators have made for'us a Constitution. If we Ik of one mind in the support of this Con stitution, the inhabitant of Georgia will not take away our land. But if we be divided into parties we shall be liable to lose our territory. Let vis| then be careful to preserve unanimityl in attachment to our countiy and’ the Constitution. It is well that we have a' Constitution, for that is our support. For wherevpr there is a community destitute of a regular system of laws,, that community is weak. But where- ever a people preserve a regular sys-1 | tern of government, that community is firmly established. So let it be with us Cherokees. Some one, how ever, may perhaps find fault with our present Constitution. But let him well reconsider, and he will perceive the excellency of that Which we now have.. ( Once it was not so in our coun try. They did not adhere firmly to laws. They had but few. For that reason the affairs of the nation were easily | involved in difficulties. What has f happened to our country is manifest. I We look towards the setting sun— i there arb those who sprang from our country. They are like lost persons; they have left their relations, their fathers, their mothers, their brothers, their friends, the land of their birth. This has happened for want of a re gular system of government. To all this we are exposed if we be destitute jaf a constitution'. But under our con stitution we shall live hr peace, if we truly regard it, and if our Councillors and Chiefs are good men, and true lovers of our soil, & such as truly wish to increase the prosperity of our coun try. If such be the character of those wlio direct the affair* of the CherokOe Nation, no etll will lirippert 1 to* US'. There is another subject which f have been contemplating. I sometimes hear of Cherokees from our country going about in cities of the United States with bows and arrows, shoot-' irig about, and expecting to obtain a little money. I have never seen it but I believe what I hear. It ia not good that men who go about shooting in the cities in the United States should be members of the Council. But l will state the reasons which lead nie to think it is not good that such men should be Councillors. In the first place I see the evil of having shooters for councillors, be- | cause when one is seen shooting about