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CHEROKEE PH4ENIX, AM) INDIANS’ ADVOCATE. ■ ■■ !■ ■! III l|. —I II ■ ■■ — I I ■ ■ >11 ■ ■ |.l I ■■ I ———*1 I I I I I ■■■ ■ ■' I I ■ II ■ | II I I | I I .. .. PRINTED UNDER THE PATRONAGE, AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHEROKEE NATION, AND DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF INDIANS. 33; BOUDINOTT, Editor. MEW ECHOTA, WEDNESDAY APRIL. 22,1829. VOL* li.-Ai*. it. PRINTED WEEKLY BY JNO. F. WHEELER, At $2 50 if paid iq advance, $3 in si\ months, or $3 50 if paid at the end of the year. To subscribers who can read only the Cherokee language the price will be $2,00 in advance, or $2,50 to be paid within the ^ear. Every subscription will be considered as •ontinued unless subscribers give notice to the contrary before the commencement of a new year, and all arrearages paid. Any person procuring six subscribers, &nd becoming responsible for the payment, shall receive a seventh gratis. Advertisements will be inserted at seven ty-five cents per square for the lirst inser tion, and thirty-seven and a half cents for each Continuance} longer ones in propor. tion. |C3*A11 letters addressed to the Editor, post paid, will receive due attention. © w y hs; JEtsa. rOAlXoOa TAAT» WW* JIwTBAU K4ri©~I. B9./1E aiiWhJofcy KTA D£P O^OJCJl i*4<». i, T<rz TEJaor 5 doj.&w>K(».i. TCTZ Tu30-A TB DO I^»A)Ivdt)U, ICT bv-R o»ejBJi DU>&niF.z tb yw DOJ^deKdJa, 0-yyiT D^P 0>GJBa I-4cS>.*. ©tvyz cp&,r anwhJotjy, wp*v* O0OJBU K4o®-l VfvIBlP 9 , TCTZ TEJBO-r DO* KTJ1Z D^P OdjyW* CPJ-IB* U.IR DOJrSdJU-w).!. AGENTS FOR"! HE CHEROKEE PHCENIX. The following persons are authorized to receive subscriptions and payments for the Cherokee Phcenix. Messrs. Peirce &l Williams, No. 20 Market St. Boston, Mass. George M. Tracv, Agent ofthe A. B. C. F. M. New York. Rev. A. D. Eddy, Canandaigua, N. Y. Thomas Hastings, Utica, N. Y. Pollard &, Converse, Richmond, Va. Rev. James Campbell$ Beaufort, S. C William Moultrie Reid, Charleston, S. C. Col, Georoe Smith, Statesville, W. T. William M. Combs, Nashville Ten. Rev. Bennet Roberts—Powal Me. Mr. Thos. R. Gold, (an itinerant Gen tleman.) Jeremiah Austil, Mobile Ala. Rev. Cyrus Kingsbury, >Iayhew, Choc taw Nation. Capt. William Robertson, Augusta, Georgia. RELI&XOU3. PATRIOTISM SUSTAINED BY RELIGION. The knowledge, contemplation, and Yvorship of God, unquestionably pro duce the strongest and purest emotions of which our minds are susceptible.*- Every attribute of deity, every evolu tion of providence^ every bright dis covery of grace and mercy, tills the goal with ideas, as salutary as they are sublime. We melt in penitence, wrestle in prayer, and exult in adora tion and praise. Reverence, admira tion, gratitude, love, hofta, and joy, lienee take their rise; and here tind the amplest scope and finest field tor f their exercise. Nor is it conceiva ble how these passions of the human tnind should be moved towards the f reatest and best of beings, without heir having collaterally a benign in fluence on the civil relations and the fcocial duties of life. To expect good citizens, where conscience is extinct, Were a project as egregiously foolish, Bs an attempt to rear a stately edifice Upon a foundation of yielding sand.— The wisest men of evccy age have thought it better that mankind should bavc even a religion full of error and Superstition, than be given up to the Mark and desolate vacuity of Atheism. '‘Were reverence towards the gods destroyed, I know not but mutual fi delity, and the social ties which bind man to man, and that most excellent Virtue, justice, would be banished out of the world.” It is, however, pass ing eulogium on the superstitious wor shipper, to prefer him to an Atheist. We are far from thinking with Mr. Hume, that activity, spirit, courage, magnanimity, ‘‘love pf liberty, and all the virtues which aggrandize a peo ple,” are the natural growth of poly theism. A comprehensive and im partial view of facts would lead to a very ditfeient conclusion. But what ever may be said of the sacred rites of Greece and Rome, Christianity gives such views of the Being and mo ral government of God, as have an ob vious tendency to purify and regulate the movements of the mind, and ad vance the welfare both of individuals and of nations. Nothing else can be fouud equally capable of touching and exalting uii the springs of action. To say, as some do, that instinct, sympa- tuy| and uabit, are sufficient grounds unci guarantees of morality, is to cov er nonesensc with a veil of general but unmeaning language. Instinct inay direct th© inferior animals; in man the control of reason is required; and rea sou requires that illumination from a- bove which the gospel only supplies. Sympathy ,;nd habit become virtue or vice, just as one is directed and the other lormed. A sound system of re ligious belief has a favorable iniluence m purifying and elevating the soul of man: and the process of argument, by which this conclusion is drawn, is as clear as any train ot reasoning on moral topics can be. Just concep tions ol the wisdom and goodness of God in providence produce content ment and resignation, and, of course, suodue the irctful emotions of anxie ty and impatience. Glowing love to God, from a vivid apprehension of his boundless benignity and grace, begets a benevolent feeling towards all his creatures—particularly our fellow- men, to whom we are bound by vari ous ties. How can envy, hatred, and malice, arrogance, tyranny, and op pression, find a place or predominance in such an element? A deep and se- rious sense of the presence of Deity, of his unspotted justice, holiness, and truth, is utterly inconsistent with the deliberate practice of any kind df sin. A firm conviction that the present is only a probationary state, and that a worid in which the righteous are su premely happy, and the wicked are wretched and miserable, is soon to o- pen upon us, is adapted to weaken the servile attachments of odr hearts to time and sense. Thus truth, equity, sell-denial, temperance, benevolence, disinterestedness, devotion, and all other virtues, receive their main sup port and nutriment from pure religion. One of the greatest philosophers our age has produced, has justly remark ed, “that scepticism is an evil of the most alarming nature; and as it ex tends, in general} not only to religion and morality, hut msoms measure al so to politics and the conduct of life, it is equally fatal to the comfort of the individual, and the improvement of society. Even in its most yioflen- sive form, when it happens to be unit ed with a peaceable disposition and a benevolent heart, it cannot fall to have the effect of damping every ac tive and patriotic exertion.”—Spirit and. Man. oj the Jlge. NEW YEAR S DAY. Or the Measuring. “Now girls’,’ said Clement to his sisters, “as we have finished our nuts and apples, let us go and measure how much we have grown in the last year. You know that on this day twelve month father marked with his encil, on the shutter K the exact eight of each, with our names a- gainst them; 1 dare say I have over topped finely;” “Not so much as you fancy,” ans wered Anne; “for I am sure Louisa grows quite as fast, I am not a great way behind her” “Seeing is believ ing,” cried Clement; and away they nil ran to the window. They pulled the curtain aside, and began hastily in seek for the pencil marks; but in vain. All agreed as to the place that they should have been found in, yet none could find them. “I declare,” exclaimed Clement, in bitter vexation, “that stupid new servant has done the mischief. I saw her Gcrubbiug away at the wainscot some time ago; but little thought she was washing off our measures.” His sisters joined in the lamenta tion, and then they began to dispute as to who would have proved the quickest grower of the three. At last their father said he believed he could settle the question. “How can you, father, whep the marks are all quite gone?” “I considered their loss as likely to happen during the year, and noted down in my memorandum-book the exact height of each of you.”, The children were very glad; and while their father ivas looking over his notes, he said to them, “How little reason we have to take pleasure, or feel p ide, in things that may be swept away in a moment! It is the folly of mankind to believe that their names shall endure forever, when they, have called their houses and lands after their names; or put them upon some monument of their own vanily. Nothing is worthy to he had in rememberance, that is not meet to be recorded in the Book of Life.” Having found his memorandum, he now measured the shutter with a little fool rule, and made the marks as they were before; saying that they were exactly the same distance from the ground. CJement had the pleasure of finding himself more grown during the year than either of his sisters; and in deed lie looked very tail upon it. “Now, my dear children,” sSHl their father, when they had once more seated themselves near the cheerful fire, “you are satisfied by knowing by how much your heads are nearer to the sky than they were twelve jnonths since; but have you asked yourselves whether your souls, have been drawing nigh unto heaven? —^whether you have grown in grace, as in stature? &. whether the knowl- ede of your Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has increased like your ac- quaintanue with earthly learning?” The childreu did not expect this ques tion: they looked on each other, and were silent. Their father went on. “Ofthe infant Jesus, it is said that he grew in wisdom & in stature, and in favor with God and man. He who left us an example that we should tread in his steps, has mercifully caused this to be written, as a pat tern for chidren. To bo proiuf of your growth in size and age, if your laitli and holiness do not likewise in crease, is to glory in your shame.— Every opportunity that the past year has afforded you of hearing-faithful teachers, of study ingjUtftfi word, nay of looking upon his wonderful works Which surround you, if not improved to the profit of your souls, is written against them in that terrible book, out of which the dead shall he judg ed. Alas, my children! not a day of that year which we look back so guil ty upon, but has left against us many a charge of ingratitude, unbelief, neg lect of God, forgetfulness of the Sa viour, and resistance against the Holy Spirit. Our sins have taken such hold upon us that we may well be unable to look up.” There was a silence of some min utes, for the children were very much affected at what their father said, and they secretly recalled to mind how very often they had knowingly offended, without even having felt re morse for guilt. In, the mean time, their father looked with a sad countenance upon the pages of his book, and asked them whether they did not remember a- nother measuring? “Yes, Father,” replied Louisa; “but we did not like to remind you of it.” 1 “So I thought. You all laughed and enjoyed" the frolic of measuring your baby brother who kicked, and struggled so much.” “I held his tiny feet,’* said Anne, “and Clement steadied his bean wiuit; idiii uii ludiuuid 5 lap, ana you measured him with a bit of tape.” The tear trickled from her moth er’s eyes.* she remarked, “My baby needs no measuring now; he is still in nis cold grave.” “He rests in the presence of God,” added her husband, fervently, “afid blessed be his holy name, who took to himself our little one so early! A short sweet, passage was his, from the cradle to heaven. But my dear children, does not this lesson speak awfully to you? The youngest of all has been taken away, since last year dawned; and which of you can securely reckon on being permitted to behold another year? I, who have again measured your height, may see you measured for your coffins ere long; then comes the dreadful measuring of your short and sinful lives, by the righteous law of a holy God. O, flee to the refuge of sinners—cling to the Rock of ages, Jesus Christ—implore the assistance of Divine grace, and use it diligently! So will you be sale; and 1, if bereft of you, shall yet be happy. Shun contention; never provoke one another, except to love •and good works; while every day brings you nearer to death and judg ment, let each find you more fully prepared to meet your God.” ueen caiieu lo pass sentence upon two caSes of homicide, in one ol winch, bulb the prisoner & the deceased weie, at the time the oiicuce was alleged io have been committed, in a slate of beastly intoxication. And m the other, the case of the miserable be ing who is now arriagned at this nary it was also proved by one of our li censed retailers, that he sold bei on the night ofthe murder three or lour glasses, although, at the time she came into the store, she was so intoxicated' that she staggered. Thus prtqiaied, in a stated'mind thus phrenzied, tins crime was committed. If, as we taught to believe, it is a crime to. tempt as well as to be tempted, hew can those hope to escape moral re-* tribution, who hold forth lures of in temperance, and, by assisting to over throw the reason of the vicious, pre pare them for the work of iniquity? It is undeniably true, that a very ia.gc proportion of the crimes which are committed, arc traceable either di rectly or indirectly to the influence of spirituous liquors; and I will add, that the poverty and wretchedness which prevails in society are to be ascribed more to this than all other causes united. These facts are mat ters of notoriety, and yet the evil con tinues; Bpreading and extending A baneful influence. In probing the sources of ibis evil we are met with the appalling tact, that there are at this moment three thousand persons in tins city, who are licensed to retail spirituous liquois—licensed to pur sue a calling, the direct tendency ; nd necessary consequence of which n is to ruin the health and deprave the morals of thousunds of our lellow beings. While such facilities are af forded lor depraving morals and de throning reason, is it matter of snr- blood-stained murder” INTEMPERANCE. From the New-York Observer. T11E VOICE OF JUSTICE. 4 Punishment for an evil deed ought to extend to all who inay have par ticipated in the guilt of it. The prin cipal and the agent—the temper and live tempted—he that actually perpe trates the crime, and he that conupts and entices, and stands by consenting i prise, that while it is done, should sutler togeth- j stalks abroad among us? If the pow er. Wherevej' it can be done this er ol applying a corrective was not in principle is recognized in legislation;! the hands of the people—if the gov- and never docs public sentiment give j eminent unuer which we live was ini a more heart-tclt sanction to the j dependent of and superior to the will awards of law, than when the wretch who has stood behind and urged on its ostensible violator, is dragged forth and made to feel its vengeance. But there are certain cases in which,—strange as it may seem—the legislative, judicial,, and executive ol the. people—'if an enemy liar] done this thing,” there might be some* ex cuse for us. But as all power i4 either mediately or immediately do- rived Irom them, and is in their hands, as it is but necessary tor them to will : that a corrective should be applied, and it will be done, how can we stand a ng powers are ail vested in one of the i lU1 ^ ‘f; done, how can we stai parties—in which the corrupted are ac, l ul ! le d hi neglecting to apply openly and in the face of day punished , reme ‘v ? In our-ardent and headier by the corrupter. Of the many who ' careei through this world, in the pur- expose themselves to the penalties of s , u *^ P ro perty or honor, let us pause law, 8 very large proportion—three- * or a moment to consider the cause of c—<i._ .4 i..-„* 4i._: suffering humanity; let us devise the most judicious measures for the cor rection of this evil, and by a firm, fourths, at least,—owe their suffer ings to intemperance. By the cus toms and institutions of society, by allurements a sanctioned&.made traf- tick of by the public authorities, the unthinking victim is gradually led bn from one indulgence and crime to an other, till he stumbles headlong into the pit prepared by the power that has ruined him. Even here, however, the punish ment is not bo unequally divided as might be supposed. There is One of higher authority, to whom communi ties are amenable, and by whom they are punished, although with no visi ble array of ministers of justice, yet certainly and severely, ar.d with an equity that it becomes the framers of human lat^s to study and adore. It is impossible that a community, by whose pernicious legislation and cm;., rupting practices an individual is into crime, should escape daily bud hourly retribution—retributio'., made up of the loss of what the individual himself might have contributed to th« power and happiness of d, e communi ty, and of all the offering and ex pense resulting from the depravity and pauperisr^ occasioned by bis ex ample. £*uch a guilty and suffering community is ours. The following retLarks of Judge Edwards, on pro nouncing sentence of death on Catha rine Ccshiere,furnish both the proof &. the illustration. “During the present.court we have and determined concert of action, carry those measures into effect. It is the cause of public justice, of pub lic morals, and of suffering humanity, which demands our aid- Vain are all the expectations which are formed, of its being in the power of the minis ters of justice to restrain the workers of iniquity—to stay the hand of vio lence, until this evil is correctedj Fifty are corrupted bv ardent spirits, where one is corrected by the law 7 .— Shall w'e listen to this appeal of “public justice, of public morals, and of suflcri’.ig humanity!” •—— We must! \v r e read the dictate in the infant’s eye; In the wife’s smile; and in the placid sky; And, at our feet, amid the silent dust Of them that were before us. Doubtless it will be a hard le-a’te* 1 to correct evil we have so long clier- islicd. Yet it can be done, and we believe at less expense of ti/ne and labor than some other important changes in the feelings and habits of society have required} Those who- would shut up every ^ram-shop ar© already far more numerous than were- the opposersjof the slave-tradfc when Clarkson wrote hi* celebrated Essay, and since his triumph, no man who de serves, tp be called a philanthropist^ , can shrink from an undertaking 'hfe