Cherokee phoenix, and Indians' advocate. (New Echota [Ga.]) 1829-1834, October 21, 1829, Image 3
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CIIEIiOKEE ElIOENIX AND INDIANSUbTOCATE.
citizens or their own soil. It is ne
cessary that you adopt such measures
as will cause and eftuct the removal
of such intruders as may be found m
possession of improvements abandoned
by emigrants. By the 8 h article
of the treaty of Holrton, 1791, it i*
stipulated, “If any citizen of the Uni
ted States, or other person, not being
on Indian, shall settle on any of the
Cherokee land, such person shall for
feit the protection of the United
States and the Cherokees may punish
bira or not, as they please.
I submit, for your further luforma*
li on a copy of a communication from
hit excellency Wra- Carroll, Govern
or of Tennessee, under instructions
from Ihie Secretary of War, and also
* copy of the reply given by the Ex
ecutive Council.
A crisis seems to be fast approach
ing when the final destiny of our na
tion must be scaled. The preserva
tion and happiness of the Cherokee
•people are at stake, and the United
{States must soon determine the issue
• _we can only look with confidence to
the good faith and magnanimity of the
“General Government, whose precepts
and profession inculcate principles of
liberty and republicanism, and whose
obligation are solemnly pledged to
f ive us justice and protection. Our
renties of relationship ore based up
on the principles of the federal con-
atitution, and 60 long aB peace and
.good faith are maintained, no power,
Jave that of the Cherokee Nation and
the United States jointly, can legally
xhange them. Much, therefore, de
pends on our unity of sentiment and
firmness of action, in. maintaining
those sacred rights, which we' have
*cver enjoyed; and in deliberating up*
'on this subject, our minds should be
.matured with that solemnity, its
great importance demand. But if,
‘contrary to all expectation, the Uni
ted States shall withdraw their so-
Jenin pledges of protection, utterly
.disregard their plighted faith, de
prive us of the right of. self Govern
ment, and wrest from us our laud—
dhen, in the deep anguish of our mis
fortunes, we may^ustly say, there
is no place of security lor us no con
fidence left that the United Slates
will be more just and faithful toward
us in the barren prairies of the West,
than when we occupied the soil in
herited from the Great Author ol our
existence.
JNO. ROSS.
45y the Principal Chief
GEO. LOW RET,
Assistant Principal Chief.
Tn our last wr stated that the General
Council was organized on Monday, and
£he message road on Tuesday, i he Mcs-
,sage wa not read on 'i uesday, hut on
Wednesday.
Wf wish to give our readers a sattsfao
<ory account of the proceedings of the two
houses during the present session, J or
this purpose the Clerk of the Council has
Jundly furnished us the abstract of the jour
nal of that house which follows the doings
„<efthe Committee for publication.
COMMITTEE.
Thursday, Oct. I5f/i.
tin motion of Mr. Gunter, a reso
lution was adopted, to which the
.council agreed, suspending the law
passed Nov. 8th, 1828, authorizing
the Treasurer to issue permits for the
^introduction of white men into the na
tion.
Mr. Vann of Coosewoteeintroduced
ja bill for the relief of Ehward Adair,
George, and John, eacli of whom had
horse sold under the stray law of
1820, previous to the amendment of
-J826, hut had failed to recover Baid
Jiorses. After »orne discussion the
bill wal rejected.
A resolution was received from the
Council on the subject of intermar
xiages, Which Was read and laid on the
| able.
Friday, Oct. lCllr.
On motion of I). Vann, the resolu
tion from the lower House, on the
subject of intermarriages, was taken
Up and read. After some inquiries
and conversation it was laid over and
ttiade tile order of the day for Satur
day.
The. Committee went into a con-
iVtderaiion of so much of the Principal
Chief’s message ns selates to the
bourse of proceedings adopted by em
igrants, in disposing of their improve
ments to citizens of the United States,
<nnd that part of the message which
recommends some measures, under
the Holston treaty of 1701, for the
removal of such citizens of the U n
ited SOfites out of the nation. After
some discussion, the subject was de
ferred until Monday next for further
consideration.
On motion of Jos. Vann, a resolu
tion was adopted, requiring those per
sons who have buildings on lllfe pub
lic square in Ecliota to remove them,
and making it unlawful for anjr per
son hereafter to build upon the saute,
under the jenalty of $100.
Monday], Oct. 20lh.
On motion of D. Vann, the resolu
tion on the subject of intermarriages
tvas again taken up. After consider
able discussion, Mr. Jos. Vann w ith
drew the resolution he had offered to
the House as a substitute for the one j
passed by the Council. The resolu
tion as received from the Council was
then adoptc V
COUNCIL.
Monday Oct. 12.
' The National Council cbnvened a-
greeably to -adjournment, from the
last session of 1828,tor business.
The Clerk of the Council, Alexan
der McCoy, having taken his scat to
attend to the duties of his appoint ment;
it was, by m-rtion of Mr. Charles
Reece of Chieknmauga, objected- to
his continuance itl the discharge ol his
duties for the following reasons. 1st
In this, lie had made it his personal
interest in the acceptance of a prom
ised reward, of a horse, to exert his
influence in the Council, td effect the
acknowledgement of the Elliots, as
true descendants of Cherokee pardrtts,
and to have them admitted as citizens
of this Nation tyith all the privileges
of native born citizehS.
2d. In this, that he, the said clerk
did suffer and permit, officers of Hit-.
United States, during the recess of
the Council to value his house and im
provement, for the benefit of Edward
Hicks, an Arkansas emigrant, and
thereby committed violence to the
feelings of his countrymen and afforded
evidence of his, disloyally to the Na
tion, and consequently unworthy to
possess the confidence of the Council.
Therefore unanimously agreed, that
lie be discharged from the servit e of
the Council, as no longer deserving
the appointment of Clerk aforesaid.
The Speaker of the house, nul hav
ing arrived. Sleeping Rabbit was call
ed to the chair, and an election was
held for a new Clerk of the Council,
to fill the vacancy occasioned by (lie
dismission of A. McCoy. Three can
didates being nominated, to wit: John
Ridge, Stephen Foreman, and Elijah
Hicks, the first,on counting the votes,
was duly elected.
The House having appointed Messrs.
Charles Ileecc and Archibald Camp
bell, a Committee to notify the Prin
cipal Chief, that they went now or
ganized for business and prepared to
receive any communication he tnay
wish to make: adjourned to meet the
next day at 9 o’clock.
Tuesday, Oct. 13.
The house convened, hut did not
proceed to business, until Ihe arrival
of the Clerk elect, at 11 o’clock,
when on motion of Mr. Parris of
Hickory Log, he w as qualified agree
ably to law as Clerk of the National
Council, by the Hon. Andrew Ross,
one of the Judges of tlie Supreme
Court of ihe Cherokee Nation. •
The house then proceeded to the
consideration of a memorial, submit
ted by Mctoy, claiming his scat as
member of the Council, dom ing his
removal out of Taquohee District,
and objecting to the election of Chob*
wahlookee of said District to till his
place. ‘Pile Council on inquiry, was
convinced of liis relinquishment of-his
plantation to his son, and that he had
commenced another, in Amohec Dis
trict, and was there settled, which
was considered equivalent to a resig
nation; his memorial w as therefore re
jected.
Ordered by llio Council, that a
messenger be despatched to notify
Choow ahlookec of this decision and
request liis attendance in Council.
The Council then proceeded to a-
dopt seven rules for their Govern
ment, and after a little discussion a-
greed to receive them.' On mo
tion of Mr. Parris, the House adjourn
ed until to-morrow, 9 o’clock.
Wednesday Oct■ 14.
The National Council convened a-
greealily to adjournment. The Prin
cipal Chief read his message in pres
ence of the Council and National
Committee, and submitted other doc
uments for their information, the pe
rusal and explanation of which occu
pied the whole day. The house ad
journed to 9 o’clock to-morrow*
Thursday Oct. 15.
On motion of James Bigbey a res
olution was adopted and sent to tllfe
Committee for concurrence respect
ing intermarriages, defining the privi
lege of such as become citizens of the
nation by marriage.
Friday Oct. \Qlh.
Chutvalooge of Dahquoce District
was qualified and took his seat as
member of the Council.
On motion of Mr. Recco of Clllck-
amatign, the House tool: up' a bill,
providing for the appointment of a
Ward, or keeper of the public build-
tile house or not. Being an aslhmat*
ic and quite umvell;' 1, pressed the
question no further. However, in a
few minutes, she had me enough pro
cured, out of a bee stand which stood
a few paces distant from the house,
to have done me for twenty meals.—
This was relieving the sick indeed, for
I had previously called for the article
more than one hundred limes in my
travels through Georgia, but never did
they move out of their position to pro
cure any for me, although my situa
tion was truly necessitous, on the ac
count that it would relieve me very
ihgs—which was passed and 'Sent to much of the distressing complaint
the other House for concurrence.
Saturday Qctv llth.
The House met $it 9 0 clock a-
greeably to adjournment. The mem
bers of the National Committee having j
entered the Council room, the two i
branches of the Legislature, in Com- j
mittee of the whole, proceeded to (lie j
election of executive Counsellors for j
the ensuing year. Major Ridge,
William ilicks and Major Waters,
were reelected.
.Monday Oct. 13th.
At two O'clock, Nonchawee, a
criminal, who had been condemned
to die on tliat day, by the circuit
court of Aqilrthee District for the
murder of Ahmahyouliah, appeared
before the table of ti e Clerk, having
a petilion in liis hand with upwards
of fifty Signatures; praying that he
may lie leprieved. The members
of the NationalCotii mi ttep .entered the
Council room &.I rink tlieir seats. The
petition was read and interpretedDn-
'o the Cherokee language by the
Clerk of the Council. After short
addresses, the question was put. shall
tlib prisoner lie reprieved or not?—
yens 34. frays 3. A resolution for
the reprieve of the prisoner wtis then
drawn and signed and sent to the prin
cipal Chief for liis approval. He be
ing absent, the Assistant principal
Chief put his signature to the instru
ment. The prisoner was then set at
liberty. [It appeared from the evi
dence by which lie was convicted,
that, the murder was not premeditat
ed or wilful. The criminal did Ihe
fatal deed under mitigating circum
stances.]
~ raw ’ 28Bbe iT~
with which 1 was afflicted.
Thus we see that the savages, as
they are termed by a great many,
have equalled, if not far excelled,
tlu: civilized in point of hospitality.
AT nous.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, IS29.
Our readers will find, in another part of
our paper, some of the proceedings of the
Cherokee Legkdalure. The first impres
sion, which the roadingofthese proceedings
will create, will naturally he, that the
Cherokees Ire determined to pltrrue the
Course they have commenced, notwith
standing th - * Jaw ofGeoiiria, which declares
all IfuVs and usages of the Nation, null and
void, after the first of June, 1880. This
arbitrary act of the state has never been,
nor will it ever he acknowledged, on the
pru t of the Cherokees. As long as they are
conscious of the justice of their cause, and
the upjust proceedings ofthe State, they
cannot tamely agree to have tlieir rights
wrested from them, rights which they ha\c
always possessed and exercised, and which
have been from time to time secured and
guarantied by the faith of the United
Slates.
NYe have seen the ‘‘exposition*’ of the
Commissioners of the United States who
negotiated the treaty ofthe Indian Springs.
In this document, Campbell and Meri
wether, who ought certainly to be good
witnesses in the case, say, they did not
purchase any lands north ofthe Cherokee
boundary line, that is from the Buzzard
Boost to the mouth of Wills Creek. If the
treaty of the Indian Springs was in force,
the stale of Georgia could not appeal to it
to support her claim. The conduct of the
present executive then in refusing to re*
move the intruders, is certainly surprising,
lftfieland in dispute is not the property
ol thc Cherokees, it belongs to the Creeks,
for they have never relinquished it anil the
United States are as much bound to re
move intruders 6n the soil of the Creeks,
as she is bound to repior e those on Chero
kee soil. But the disputed land docs not
belong to the Creeks, it is the property of
the Cherokees.
SUMMARY
Communicated,
INDIAN HOSPITALITY.
Travelling a feiv weeks since In
tile Cherokee Nation, I and a gentle
man called at u house, 12 or 14 tnilcs
from Neivloivn, to get breakfast. In
going in, I inquired of n Voting Indian
girl who appeared td be the fn inciple
band in preparing breakfast, if they
had ni y honey. She replied she did
not kpetv whether there was any in ^ graced fnHrtr,bnd y poorfather Unci
The frequency of recent arrivals J
from Europe has reminded the editors j
of the New York Gazette ol'a printer I
in Massachusetts, who enlarged his
paper beeyu.se be had got ‘thirteen 1
months behind hand with foreigunews. *
According to the Monmouth En
quirer, there are in New Jersey n-
bovt fifty forges and furnaces, em
ploying altogether obodt fifteen hun
dred hands.
A writer in the Providfcficc Ameri
can concludes a long notice of the
Siamese hoys with these words:
• the animal world is full (/wonders,
from the Siamese boys down to the
lowest species of life, a double yolhcxl
e gg-,'
The Siamese boys, which have at
tracted so much notice in Boston,
have arrived in New York, and are to
be exhibited at the Masonic Hall.
The Killingworth, -Uon. veterans,
it tvould appear, were a giant r&ce.
Among a company of sixty-four men
raised in that town at Hit Commence
ment rtl the revolutionary war, not
one was less thnntmr jeet high, atui n
is said they r.ll did their duty
IJolingshed, who was contemporary
with Queen Elizabeth, informs us,
‘ there were very f< w chimneys (in
England in his time) even in the capi
ta 1 towns; the lire was laid to the wall,
and the sin ke issued out at the roof,
or door, or window. The houses
were wattled and plastered over v ith
clay, and all the furniture and uten
sils were wood. The people slept on
straw pallets, will) a Jog of wood for
a pillow.”
A correspondent of the National
Intelligencer recommends Toasted or
Bund Bread as an aflectbal remedy
for the intermittent or ague.
An old lady in YVilbraham, Mass, in
her 8l)th year, has several times spun
40 knots of woollen yarn per day.
A hog which wheighs 1400 lbs. lias
been raised in Poullney, Yt. and it is
intended to send him to New York and
Washington for exhibition. There is
no mistake about liis being a whole hog.
'Fite N ew York Journal of Com
merce announces that a gentleman in
that city lias made a discovery of a
cure for dyspepsia. The remedy is
not promulgated.
An Edinburgh paper states, that
“the sinail-pox is extremely preva
lent amongst tlie higher class ol soci
ety. It seems to have been now (says
the paper) thoroughly ascertained
that the preventive quality ol vaccin
ation wears out in seven or eirht
years.”
Gatnbrcnsjs, Bishop of St. David's
says, ‘‘It was the common vice of the
English, from their hirst settlement
in Britain, to expose (heir children
and relations to sale;” and it also ap
pears, ‘-that the wife of Earl Good
win, who was sister to Canale, (he
Danish king of England, made great
gain by the trade she made of buying
up English youths and tuaids to sell to
Denmark.”
A simple Irish girl in Philadelphia,
told her mistress the had heard peo
ple talk In this country of a lit of the
blues, and remarked that she supposed
that she was going to have one, at the
same time showing her linger with a
felon upon it. Patriot.
A young white man and a black
man lately stole $4400 from a vessel
at New YOrk, to which thtf belong*
ed. There is no escape for criminals.
They were pursued, and oveitaken
frt Connecticut, and all but $200
recovered. 7 The w hite man immedi
ately confessed the robbery, and ad
dressing bis associate; said, “/ told
you how it would be. Mow I am dis-
mother are disgraced also. / tape *
shall it hanged for it.” On the trial*
of the coiouieu man, who ref used tqi
confess, the oilier said they were
both drunk when they committed the
crime.
Indian Shrewdness.— IJe thai delivi
eretli it unto thee .hath the greater
sin. ‘‘I ani glad,”,said Ihe Rev. Dr.
Y s to the chief of Little Ota*
was, “that you do not drink whiskey,
but it grieves me to find that your
people use, so much of it.” “Aye,
yes! ’ as h/s fixed an impressive eye
upon the Doctor, which commune,<H
ted the reproof before he uttered it,
“wc Indians use a great ileal of whis
key, but we don't make it.”
II cslchesler Herald.
.Kupolcon fy an English Sailor.
The following anecdote appears in fc'
recent French paper. while tlidT
French troops were encamped at
Bologne, public attention was much
excited by tin: dan-.:.; attempt at esv
cape made by .ah English sailor.—*
This person having escaped from tin/
depot, and gamed the borders of the.
sea, the woods of whwh served bin!
for concealment, constructed with lit-
other instrument, than n knife, a boat
entirely of the bark pf trees. Wherf
the weather was-fair,, ho mounted a,
tree anil looked out lor an Eii'dish,
(lag; and having at hut observed tv
British Utilizer he ran to the riioro
with his boat, on his hack, • < k w hen he
was about, to thrust himself to the,
mercy (<f the waves he n as pursued*
arrested, rttul lorded with chains. Ev;
cry body ih the armv was anxious to.
sco the Imat, and Napoleon, havinrrat
length heard of lire affair, rent for thd
sailor and interrogated him. ‘•You
must,” said Napoleon, “havh .tied n
great desire to tee your country a*
gain, since you could rcsolvfe to tnisf
yourself on the open sen in so frail i<
bark.” “No,” said the sailor, but'
a poor and infirnt mother, whon I wr/
anxious to sec!” “And you jshal! see
her, said Napoleon.giving at the saitv;
time orders to set him t liberty *"T
bestow upon him a cau-dderable sum
of money for his mother, obseiving
that she mtisti be u good mother niv
had so a foil a sou.”
At (■anav.dr.igu*, a boy nind
years <f age killed himself Ly“
drinking w hiskey—to which it is said
lie was encouraged, by a being calicu
a man.
A Mobile rarer states that tlup
Presbyterian Clinch recently erected
in that • itv, with which the Rev.
YVorrcn is connected, was recently
struck with lightning, and damaged to
the arHeeut of several hundred dofc’
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R emaining in tii« p.ist oifiee ai
• New Ecliota, Oct. t, 1839,
YV alter Adair, Esqr; Andrew Apnedi
Jcsejih Crutchfield; John Davis; Itev;
Francis F.der,2; Lydia Graytfon; F.lijsli
H;cl(s, F.sijr. Georgs Lamun; Richard
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A. WORCESTER, P. M.
Ort, 21, 1829. S3 3
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