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AGENTS FOR THE CHEROKEE
PHCEN1X.
The following persons are authorized to
receive subscriptions and payments for the
Cherokee Phcenix.
Messrs. Peirce &. Williams, No. 20
Market St. Boston, Mass.
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Rev, Cyrus Kingsbury, Mayhew, Choc
taw Nation.
Capt. William Robertson, Augusta,
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Col. James Turk, Bellefonte, Ala.
RELIGIOUS.
From the Missionary Herald.
SANDWICH ISLANDS.
'Extracts from the report of the station at
Lahaina, dated XGthof October, 1828.
Since the last communications from
This station, regular religious service
Las been attended twice every Sab
bath, and once on every Wednesday.
A catechetical meeting is also held on
Thursday of every week, at which
the people are questioned respecting
the sermons preached during the
Week, and also respecting the essential
doctrines of the Bible, and where
they also have an opportunity to pro
pose questions theifkselves on religious
Subjects. The number wha attend is
considerably more than a thousand;
Borne of whom come a distance of
twelve or fifteen miles. The females
also continue to hold a meeting by
themselves on Friday of every week.
All the female members of the church
take part in conducting this meeting;
among whom is the princess, who by
her pertinent and feeling exhortations
often produced a great effect on the
minds of the listeners. On Saturday
evening is a prayer meeting of the
church and those who are candiates
for church membership. At all these
meetings some one of our number is
tisually, if not always, present.
You are already aware that this
Jdace is the centre of missionary ope
rations for Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and
Kahoolawe. Lahaina is the only place
where there is regular preaching. It
is, however, by no means the only
f ilace where people assemble for re
gions worship on the Sabbath.—
There are not less than twenty places
©n this island, and several on Molokai
had Lanai, where the people assem
ble for prayer and instruction. The
dative teachers take the direction of
the meetings, occupying the time in
reading artd teaching the various Scrip
ture tracts and other books, and con
clude with prayer. By tnis course
the people are inspired with a rever
ence for the Sabbath; and though the
teachers are themselves extremely ig
norant, yet they are able, in this man
ner, to communicate some instruction,
and the people are thereby kept from
assembling for vicious purposes, and
worse than idle conversation.
What a Christian aspect is spread
over this portion of recently heathen
population. On a small island, con
taining less than 30,000 inhabitants, by
whom, eight years before, God and
his Sabbath and Word were never
heard of, nor any religion, except one
consisting in idolatrous, cruel, and li
centious rites, there are now twenty
places where God is worshipped, his
truth meditated upon, and his name
invoked, every Sabbath; and that, too;
when there is no missionary to sum
mon the people together, or keep up
their interest. The change both as
to the externals of their religion and
the considerations which operate on
their minds, can scarcely he conceiv
ed.
Erection of a House for Worship at
Lahaina.
The attention of the people to pub
lic worship, we think, does not dimin
ish. The interest which the chiefs
and people in Lahaina feel on this
subject is manifested, in some degree,
by their engagedness in erecting a new
house of worship. The chiefs com
menced cutting stone and making pre
paration for this about seven months
ago. The corner stone of the build
ing was laid on Monday, Sept. 14.—
Tire only ceremony on the occasion
was a short address and prayer. At
the particular request of Hoa pili, the
building receives the name of Ebene-
zer. It is 104 feet long, and 50 wide.
The stones of which the house is built
are volcanic, easily hewn, and rather
light and porous, but are very tena
cious and will resist the action of the
weather.
To build this hou**, the common
people are taxed for some labor; but
the real expense of the building is
nearly all defrayed by the chiefs, and
principally by Iloapili. It is thus far,
and promises in the end to he, very
much superior to any thing which has
been attempted in this part of the
world.
It is proper here to mention that
the whole number of marriages at this
station since the last communication
is 288; making the number since its
establishment 994.
There have been no additions to the
church at this place since the first of
April. Fourteen persons, however,
now stand propounded to be received
at the next communion.
pulpit, and replied, “I thought I was
making a confession.” Upon this, the
minister demanded, “Have you any
confession jor yourself to offer?” “It
would take me a long time,” answer
ed the man, “to give a full account
of the burdens I have had to bear.”—
“Mr. ,” said the minister, with
some degree of earnestness, “//aye
you said any wicked words, or done any>
icicked things, which you icish to con-
/ess?” To this the man promptly re
plied, “No Sir!”
The prompt “JYo Sir,” of this man
lias been not a little instructive to me.
I have known people, wha could elo
quently and earnestly talk and pray a-
bout their “total depravity,” who
would never bear the gentlest reproof,
which looked towards any of their in
dividual faults. Alas! I have said to
myself, notwithstanding your high-ton
ed orthodoxy and seeming humility,
how promptly do you answer “-Vo
Sir,” to the question, “Have you said
any wicked words, or done any wick
ed things, which you wish to confess?”
You mean nothing when you call your
selves “totally depraved.”
In the course of a case of discipline,
a church have urged home upon an
offending brother the clearest proof
that, in the alleged fault, ho had been
guilty. I have seen that brother arise,
and have heard him say, “I ain indeed
a poor sinner—am full of faults—am
committing sin every day;” and then
add, with some sharpness, “I shall not
confess the crime you allege against
me.” Poor man, I have been ready
to say, while you own yourself to bo
full of faults, you have your “No, sir,”
to defend yourself against the charge
of any single one of them?
While I implore forgiveness of the
Saviour for my many sins, let me be
ware of that hardness of heart, and a-
version to reproof, which send forth
their astounding “JVb Sir,” to meet
the charge of guilt. Z.
INTEMPERANCE.
From the American Pastor‘s Journal,
THE CONFESSION.
I once attended public worship in a
plain country town in one of the north
ern states, when a circumstance oc
curred which interested iny feelings
not a little. From the drift of the
discourse, which the minister with
much seriousness and earnestness de
livered J perceived that the church
had been engaged in some unhappy
strife. Amidst this strife, their
Christian character had lost its lustre.
The minister exhorted them to repent
of their sins with which they were
justly chargeable, and to make heart-
y, humble confession of the deeds, by
which they had dishonored their Sav
iour and hurt His cause. At the close
of the sermon, a man rose in the con
gregation, and began to speak, with
considerable warmth and sharpness,
of the burdens which the conduct of
HIS BRETHREN HAD HEAPED UPON
him. The minister at once interrupt
ed him by putting the following ques-
tiontohim: “Mr. ———, have you any
confession to make?” The man, some
what embarrassed, looked up to the
Intemperance is rolling through our
land a river of death) a river which
scorches and consumes every thing
that floats upon its burning surface,
and here too, the appeal may he made
to stubborn facte. In estimating the
effects of spirituous liquors on human
health and life, 1 will arrange the con
sumers into distinct classes—drunk
ards, habitual temperate drinkers,
and those who take a little on special
occasions, and as they say, for neces
sary purposes. In the class of drunk
ards may he included not only those
who drink dead intoxication, hut like
wise those who love the holtle so
well that they must drink every day;
who feel lost without their accustom
ed dram; and who keep always full,
though they may never be unable to
attend to their ordinary business.
These men deserve to be hound up
in &a common bundle with beastly
drunkards. Of this first class there
are in the United States 300,COO, &, at
least 30,000 of these die every year.
What a sweeping mortality is this!
one man in every ten, from these fear
ful ranks, is annually called to fill a
drunkard’s grave! Drunkenness is it
self a disease; a disease which is per
forming the work of death with a more
desolating vengeance than the yellow
fever or the plague. In almost every
case it proves fatal. Look at the
drunkard. It is often difficult to say
whether, in taking the census you
ought to number him with the living
or the dead. He is already a naked
skeleton, or a bloated corpse; a walk
ing inuimny—when he can walk; a
mass of semi-animated putrefaction.
He is dead while he lives. Bury him
while in a tit of intoxication and he
would rot as quick as any other dead
man. Intemperance, even if it were
not the parent of other diseases, is it
self the blueist plague that ever visit
ed and cursed the world. But this
evil comes not single handed. Ask
the physician, and he will tell you,
that it originates idany of the most af
flictive diseases that are cutting down
our dying race. By strongly exciiim.
the stomach, it soon destroys its tone
and brings on loss of appetite, induces
dyspepsia, and lays the foundation for
distressing and fatal complaints of the
bowels. It produces inflammation of
the liver; and often terminates in ob
structions, enlargement, suppuration,
and even skirrus of that important or
gan. Jaundice and dropsy follow on
in the fatal train. By increasing ar
terial action, it preys upon the deli
cate structure of the lungs, paints the
hectic flush upon the cheek, and
heaves the hoarse and deep-sealed
cough that prophecies of the sepul
chre. To this cause must be refer
red a large proportion of the cases of
rheumatism, and a stilt larger propor
tion of the gout. It acts most power
fully upon the brain, producing inflam
mation of that organ and its surround
ing membranes, and inducing epilep
sy, palsy, apoplexy, ami madness.—
the most distressing of all diseases is
the “delirium tremens,” or “mania a
portu,” or, in plain English the brain
fever of the drunkard. If there is a-
ny instance, in which man, at the
present day, is delivered over, soul
and body, to the bufletting of foil spi
rits, the drunkards mania furnishes
that example: That person who is
afflicted with this disease fee’s him
self in hell, while yet o? earth.
llev. J\lr. Bcmaiu
which are vended at the apothecaries.'
—Charleston Observer.
INDIANS.
A MISCALCULATION.
From Philan. & litres.
A gentleman of wealth, and high
standing in society, was applied to, a
year or two ago, to aid in the promo
tion of Temperance. lie treated the
applicant with much dignified conde
scension, and, as is common in such
cases, regarded the matter as some
thing that concerned only the lower
classes of society, towards whom he
felt very benevolently disposed, hut
had little faith in the success of any
measures for their reformation; be
sides, the calls on his purse were so
numerous that, really, it was not in
his power to do any thing, at present.
It would have been uncivil, in the
applicant, to have intimated that
temperance needed to be preached
in the halls of the luxurious and the
wealthy. lie modestly took his leave.
The calls upon .the purse of the man
of wealth, were indeed numerous and
frequent. The education of his only
son and heir, and his proper initiation
into the pleasures and amusements of
a young gentlemen of fortune, could
not he otherwise than expensive.
But all these expenses were cheerful
ly defrayed as necessary; while the
luxury of promoting Temperance
could not possibly be indulged. Now
mark the result. That only son and
heir, is at this moment, a confirmed
sot, and, his distressed father has
discovered his mistake, when it is
too late to amend it. Yet he now
puts forth a helping hand, in the
cause of Temperance, anxious, if
possiple, to save others from the evils
he has experienced, and to do his
duty for the future, though he coimot
atone for the past.
Abstinence a cure for Dyspepsia.—A
venerable clergyman residing in one
of the Southern States remarks, in a
letter to a friend in this city, in sub
stance as follows: “1 had been in the
habit for fifty years of talcing a little
brandy or wine, mid thought it uecces*
sary lo promote digestion, as my hab
it was dyspeptic. About a year since
I silently abandoned the use of all
stimulating liquors, and as the result
of my own experience I can testify,
that the tones of my stomach are .re
stored to a perfectly healthful action,
and that my general health is, in eve
ry other respect, greatly improved.”
Let others follow' his example, and it
is presumed that a far greater num
ber of certificates to the sovereign
virtues of total abstinenco can shortly
he obtained, than are now fixed to
any of the anti-dyspeptic elixir s
THE CHEROKEE INDIANS.
M r e call the attention of our read
ers to the elaborate and impartial
statement of the relations betweeif
the United Slates and the Cherokees,
appearing in this evening s paper, it
is written with clearness and power,
and although long, is well entitled to'
a caielul perusal. The American
people will now perceive how harsh
ly the gallant tribes composing this
nation, and whose friendly relations
with the Federal Government have
always been preserved, are about ttf
bo treated by the present Administra
tions; and how opposite its policy and
sentiments are to all the administra
tions that have preceded it.
The letter of the Indian agent, in
the Post ol last evening, does not
meet the question discussed ili thg
preceding article. It merely repeats
the principles advanced in the offn ial
letter of tlie Secretary of War, nntf
does not glance at the express guaran
tee given by the United States to th6
Cherokees, of their lands forever.^
If we do not mistake, this subject will
make a deep impression on the pub?
lie mind in this country and in Eu
rope.—«.V. I". American.
For the N. American.
The relations now existing between
the government of the United States
and the Cherokee nation, have been
rendered well worthy of examination,
by the late proceedings at Washington!
1 he ordinary relations between oui”
government and the aboriginal tribes
wiihin its boundaries are here modi
fied by treaties, almost coeval with
our existence as an independent pow
er, and whose provisions arc strongly
marked with the enlightened and be
neficent spirit, which we claim as
peculiarly characterestic of (he na
tional policy of the United Stales ton
wards the original inhabitants of the
American continent.
The gradual recession of this ex
traordinary race of men, from the ad
vancing steps of civilization, and the
disappearance of tribe after tribe
fiom the continent as it became oc
cupied by the descendants of Europe
ans, leaving only their monuments and
their names to indicate that they had
been—had begun to excite a melan
choly interest in the public mind, e-
ven previous to the American Revo
lution. The humane felt tlint this
process of destruction, which in some
places (as in Cuba and Hispaniola)
was caused by the Europeans, was
every where a consequence of their
contiguity; and a natural anxiety was
evinced to preserve from extinction a
race of men, who, to the vices of savi
ages, united, in an eminent degree, all
the noble and exalted qualities of the
savage state. Among the English
colonists this anxiety w : as increased
by the responsibily they assumed up*
on the declaration of independence.--.
I rei ious to that event, a that'© of the
responsibility ^ rested upon file
Bntish government. Upon the cola-
, governments, indeed, had d c *
volvod the immediate adtblhiilrailori
of Indian affairs. In the early period
of our history the occupation of their
territory took place upon their re
sponsibility; and never, since llm
earth was given to man, to replenish
and cultivate, was a better and more
equitable title obtained to its soil.
In all the colonies, treaties were
made with the aboriginal inhabitants
& their consent obtained for the civl
ilized occupation of the territory with-*
in certain limits. Their title, inner*
feet as it reny be admitted it is, wL n
extended over the Uncltivatori and
boundless forest, was fairly purchas-
ed, and our ancestors came into pos
session unstained with the guilt of un
authorized and forcible cdnqnes' —
Hie right which civilized man has to
the occupation of a portion of th©*