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owy JcT^FO*9. CHEROKEE PHffiHIX, AHB INDIANS’ ADVOCATE. PRINTED UNDER THE PATRONAGE, AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHEROKEE NATION, AND DEVOTED TO TIIE CAUSE OF INDIANS.—II. liCUDINCTT, ILTGlt. VOL. XX. NEW ECHOTA, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 12, 1H2®. i^. 19. PRINTED WfeFKLY BY JOHN F. WHEELER, At $2 50 if paid in advance, $3 in six months, or $3 50 if paid at the end of the year. To subscribers who can read only the fcnerokee language the price will be $2,00 in advance, or $2,50 lo be paid within the year. Every subscription will be considered as teonlinurd unless su iscribers give notice to ithe contrar y before the commencement of a 1new year,and all arrearages paid. Any person procuring six subscribers, and becoming responsible for the payment, shall receive a seventh gratis. Advertisements will be inserted at seven ty-five cents per square for the first inser tion, an ’ thirty-seven and a half cents for each continuance; longer ones in propor tion. . — ICJf* Vll letters addressed to the Editor, post paid, will receive due attention. owy J(f J) B0-A AD Ii8iJE<VffiJT. V0At.Xii)Jl TAAfT H*V* JhsfBA-I I^4ot)A. B0AE KTA D£P (POJBa TCTZ TEv-WOT 5 DO.IjSoSI-oi)./!. TGTZ ft>P Tc90-A TB DO.I^oBKc®^!, ItT m-n cpe.TBa k4c»j. u?a>s>caEZ tb yw Dei.5?Iv»6J, 0-y.1T D-(5P (PejB^ I-4.-».J. Givyz o>c,R uht9h.iriey, wr-v* d?4 tyO.IB.I D4c*.I ^ABlT, TCTZ TF.J90-IP DO“ ktaz d^p e<ay«v* o^b* U.IU DO.l/^SSIve®^. 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. George M. Tract, Agent of the A. B. C. F. M. New York. R’v. A. D. Eddy, Canandaigua, N. Y. Thomas Hastings, Utica, N. Y. PiLLtRD &. Converse, Richmond, Va. Rev. James Campbell, B aufort, S. C. William Moultrie Reid, Charleston, S. C. Co!. George Smith, Statesville, W. T. William M. Combs, Nashville, Ten. Rev. Bennet Roberts, Powal, M°. Mr. Thos. R. Gold, (an itinerant Gen tleman.) Jeremiah Austil, Mobile, Ala. Rev, Cyrus Kingsbury, Mayhew, Choc taw Nation. Capt. William Robertson, Augusta, Georgia. 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©*