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V.! .T !> a '.tml‘ol.1.
former tvoro in‘the wretched cor.di- benevolent operations of the elaml
fion already described, while the ern-
' 'grants, situated in a country of plen
ty—a country fertile in all the pro
ductions of the earth, easily tilled
abounding in game—aloof from the
causes of dispute with the white men.
and from the eontaminplmg influence
of their neighborhood—already began
to experience the good c libels of the
change in their circumstances. He
was confident, that the only possible
method (if preserving the Indian race,
and of elevating the Indian charades ,
was to remove them from the vicinity
of the whit« until their qiw.dunl civ
ilization could he effected. The y|-
lompfs to christianize the Indians in
their present stale, lie was of opinion,
much as lie honored the zeal that had
prompted them, were fruitless or
worse. The supposed conversions
has p rod a ’od no ehniiao of hahit
’JANS.—fLOClnH'n, I I.Fi t li,
wrong. Still less that they would est in the v.ei . ic m our > u
,u|acc- themselves at the beck of siuii j And perhaps they may ash how \. ig
a man as Col, M’Kennoy. and bast
all their mo.um-nls upon the tt-sn-
m tty ol his W( id ihis icf.rct!—ask the ’ lo «. f i‘otd to the emigrant liidii.ns all
people ol W asliingltm how mt t h it is the necermry instm* lion in the ai ,s of
worth,)—and present tlcmsclvis be i life aid I lie duties of religion.’ A,d
ore the public for no other puipose 1 possibly it may oc< ur to them to i* k
■ han t o echo and s. iut ion bis speech. some of car periodicals. tcAiih ad
Tt'.T-
A.V 'ii-v
must concur in hearing f'e most him
oiablt; testimony. And such is tin
growth of evangelical spirit i mo«
them, that f doubt not their enlarged
charities will soon put some larger
communities to the blush. The lit
lie circle, of which I am treating
neither controls nor represents that
iiesrd are to procure the J-tmcls lii oti*
uc. meg theii miconditii nal picm.so
orthodox body, to whom c ur pilgrim But so it w as. Th
so much indebted for
■;(!
f'.tliers were
protection am
It is alw. ys easier to oppose than
to promote to pull down than to build
up, to spend money for objects pro
fessedly benevolent. i! an to uiise it,
x olu ill ary c cm, ihntious if the
Since tlie ,»o*.vs .Voeietv was |
Gnied hack upon its own i ('sources. ;
no way appeared in whieli tlicur men |
'■<m!d in do a ! In; pco; !■■ voluntarily to
sacred hinds of charily to
tains nothing else t
speech, it was
coplc, that ibis i
being born. And
a got d many of the
ipr
icir pai
I III [! (
supposed
inr.id ir.d
! rt; On Jy
,1/. .
lei con- -co'crucitr. (nut :.g the ( Lin lues. to i d
bi t bis ! «'iii win ther the hutch Cluiri li has a
supply cf miiiisieis uml li-acliis ;o
rpai e, lor all theii wants if ihcy t r,.F
’•y liie
! eoi.ii
cn! nst th
agents
TI,o following persons an
FOR THE CTiEtlOKEE
PHCENIX.
authorized to
rre<; . v( , , i i , i .ptions and payments for tbe
Cherokee lMi.cnix.
Messrs. Peikcb 8c Wii.i.ivm?, No. 90
Market St. Bo.-ton, Ma'a.
i; \J. T- ... A grit the A. IJ.
t. W. N w Yak.
jlev. A. L>. lt'iDnv, Canan.’ia'gua, N. Y.
'I'ltOMAS 11 AS'I‘1 KGS, Ul'CO. N. t.
.‘.no Co.svERSR, H-thinond, Va.
,i . r .«. f" • t,, YY. aulort, S. C.
i , A A nl.A.iiii Jlsib, Charleston,
degraded had ’lecorue the charact. r
of t!i:s once independent people, that
professions of religions bcli ■■ bad !--ot % r»
made, and the. ordi.rui of rciuiyu
Submitted to, when an i wanted a
new bla:d /i or a squ \v a r. gown.
Tim on!v o nv to hiin > t!,em *•> an nn-
dcistnn iiiig of the (lootl ines, and rn
obcdif'.ie.e to * lie precepts of <"•!• f*».s-
ianily, was iiy educatinr, & ( A ili:;i,
them i.' tin* t::si place: hut this coe’il
not. he hoped for in the present s!.,ie
of the tribes east of the Mi«.-sissip;.i ,
i theii
■s?
The
of Go
'"ii t ! “ new adm!"i:
iiicrd <o gi\ e l • tiie
counleivinec
ati :i s< . mod
de-t
i prn> cl to lheir
! t.f
to r thems v i,
, •
“i run
nqoe
minds
had keen at a wn in to sign us
lion hop- d it would pi rw c m>
case it would have been only
lioual monument i f human v.
lint mnv it ;.j , , ..f s, by the ;
liove quoted tli.it its | rojei t<
■ i i(1 • • n oi lull in:; it die,
done up its w oi!. ‘‘for t he
I y most
db. d in
si : pm t
HO \\ l!(.
const it ii-
1n that
r n addi
cakm-.M.
i rt i« le a-
i.tors havi
till
i nu
rate
In
*IH il.SICIt.
co: t ro d in this
to be Governor T
th
; 1 ’
;
to
■nt
it,.,
s’ P
1*10
of the Ind
;*i n ” V>
lictlier it will 1),
‘ B'dilll! 1 > :
aid
S V i t ,11 1*1
cr if Inis
CilVglided t! i m.
dian in tlie
H'd
nd when
if c.t.mes
to the luborim-s
y ti e j n>i
! <H
end praet
( III liiisiucf
S of “B.-C.en; vh- ,
m-ii ii aii'ci
g
•d ii’i: 11!
ving" tl'cii
i, icnnii.s fur c\
w cm! has b
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t> »rr
SYi
S. C.
Co'
llev
CJf.oTie.F. Suit!!, Stalnsville, W. T.
.. , ; ...i A.-..ci:., d.ito, Ala.
. Cvau.j lCiNusiiiiiiV, Maylicw, Choc
taw Nation.
C i t. Wit.i.!am It-nnuTSOK, Augusta,
Georgia.
Col. James TunK, Bellefoute, Ala.
• J ivf 1>ID^AN aOARD”IN NLiVV
YOUK.
WHAT IS IT? — AND WHAT IS ITS DE-
. siun: —. YVe direct. Hie attention of
our lead vs to the following commu-
iiicali.m, f.r r. ijance behind the cur
tains of the New York “Indian
Board.” We have been long looking
'for the unraveling of ihi? riddle. It
|s here placed before our readers,
from a source which enables us
to place complete reliance on its
statements., '(’he communication is
prefaced by an-extract from a New
York paper which speaks for itself.]
Rcligi ms tnlcUigeuccr.
F om the Ns\V Yor ; Evening Test.
“YVe understand that at a meeting
Pof the Indian itoard in this city, last
evening, [March 9J Gov. Houston
was present, and furnished some iu-
Vteresting information relative to the
'Jndian tribes in the soull^tvcstern
bai ts of the United States. Accord-
jug to his statements, as wo are in
formed, the Indians west of the Mis
fllssippi are In a better condition, both ;
n a moral and physical point ol view,
j hail those within the’limits of the
1 tates. lie considers the immediate
<i eighborhood of white men as most
j ernicious to the Indian, imparting to
<j im the vices of civilization, without
pmmunicating any of its virtues.—
ceordtnglv. the south-western tribes
this side of the Mississippi, with
min he was long and 'veil accjuaint-
wore, m the mass, brutalized in
.r extreme, poor, living wretchedly,
f clothed, and practising the most de
eding vices. These tribes semi
.•lh number of mendicants, who trav-
thc country, and are sometimes
ml begging as far as Pittsburg.
drew a contrast between tlie
eks who remained in Georgia and
buna and those who hod emigrat-
to the west of the Arkansas.. The
Pifty yenr3 nii:>ht
work, if they could
emigrate. The
trade s whom iet
the Indi: ns bi iIs• ir
iiati and d i.yiadei! 1
they to, k :dv■.mta :
'’ifl in erdc .’
tl.
af com
>e pers
dish tilt
inded to
'■■'liite cents ami
•est it u as f o ! cep
present tiuTort o-
oiuliticn. cl' -, lv it
■, wen* a tiro or.'l
'os If) ,v to piu i itlire
is :>nu
i tin d-
Bap-
S. A!
• e the
■ htain
IllOilr I
ns
ui;a
savage3 agaves, liif* ‘dan of (.mi
gration.”
JWr. FAilor.—Perhaps some of y'r.M
readers would like to know what is
tin’s Indian Board, and what is its
rbiim to tbe title it has assumed. Hav
ing recently enjoyed some opportunity
of learning facts on 1 he subject, I
(bin!-: them quite worthy of publica
tion.
T" ’s association as I gather from
their printed pamphlet, was project
ed by tlie R •a - Eli 11 iIdwin. aided Gv
the counsels of a few other ministers
of the Reformed Dutch (dm eh.—
Pliat church as a body, is considera
bly less in point of numbers than the
Congregationalisls in Connecticut, the
number of ohur hes being only iSo
a id n*’pastors ’59. But being scat
tered through several states, and hav
ing its centre in
Oil!
e Tcmrmsy
i’ "> ia onld also !’">■
: lb • : i' i ihe 1 hb
•be woid-s oi’ the M
ir.eiicon 1’i'avi, t!>e
and (1m* Moravian
i! >’ s ipn * ime lkey \\ mdr' :• • >•;
lever of the G jvermrc.it and
t!v' ibspo ;tI of the s'miis of
in !i the gnvcriimert u eld
lor the civilize!ion of i be 'a ii
the power of growing out i f
c•.• e-.sive patronage 'rims 'In
be., hb- a| once to prevent a!!
sinus. A’m,'-nians. and Rapid
[over,.bin access to the Indio s or
least from deriving any aid in their
benevolent operations ft cm the bom.tv
ol’ tiie United Slat as Go\ m nun t
Accordin': ly n (•oi’rrspi'vdcnce was
opened by flic Rev. IJ. iG:!i (’Gone 1
M’Kennev tbe Clerk for Indian Af
fairs, which resulted in a meeting <■
eleven persons connected with the
Dutch Chur h, on the IOth of .Ini*
last. These men proceed' d to cal! a
public meeting, which took place on
the I ’th of A ’.gust, w hen by their n -
i quest Col. M'Keuncv made a spnc li
!n tin* mean lime a constitution was
adopted and signed by 99 of tiie ,b()
members to which it is confined. Of
this Board no less than 22 are eouuc. -
led with tilts Dutch Cimreli. 3 more
ire Scotch Presbyterians, one fb-is-
peisons n.
I CCC( dil'.g {Ij.j
oup, Cukncl
Kenney. Got Houston. Dr. L
! -’c and t!w R v Eli. Baldwin,
“hen we contemplate the nn--!
Mieirohjcc , anp the icckh-ss
li they r re ioi n
thHi:-, it wcnlc le well nnnx
I, l ing t!u w.or
ie otiiv. Bi t
jt | ; <. ; spil it w ilh w 1
ij l i
by
i ; 1‘
row n-
A cl
tv .r
of
. 11
■ i.<
: I'l
eenne
l"0 W( I
jiei inicnt I o prove.
Una or two fact
ii.” rei cut meeting
• c. '’'ids * Gov. ! loustiui”
in u (\ bo was Govcnior of 'lb u
• I tv im suddenly desei ted !.
"t lionor among civilind
i use!cvs!v IV isoi !, a licaulifel
1 ib‘ c i.cin be had jnst ma i; j.
led vrit 1 j f _
liv of no i ”
d ' if GI no IK
re : 11ices i
lie “Savact
cur red brcll
me ctll'h';-1.( l-’S.
cor* n udin;:
i to
.d ’In t
> o a r. d .
HiGSENT COM ’ j ;q\
CilEROKEES.
defier jrc.m the liev. f'cmvt
IVur'cer-ltr totheFc' E. S. E,
OF 'I’TJF,
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( hey
t ‘am
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do
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To tl
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the Phil
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Id glad
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Rev.
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know
I’rom
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fa
l‘h re;
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- i.S
• g s,
k‘ is
the tit
dared
cnem\
of civi
n ro
r.rd to
the r
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c of r
ry t oop!(
! iza(
ipu, an oricn scon
er oi'
rt li. ion.
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: ffr
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* spift
ful rn
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f miss
ionni'ieg
m u r!
to 1
<e 1*1
amed.
A ik ! '
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ami
slanderer (
f t Iicir
cliara.
t oi s am!!
btatei
Dents in yoi
1
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nre et :;.
ol,
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labor
s.
we a
•e certain!'
fi
i nd f.
k-r ivitia
SS-
o liea
• the
estiirio
•v tf
s-jeh r !
* s in
egard
to tl;
1 s
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tliest
■ grave
1 Do; to: s in Divinity.
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a j
New York, wliore the old collegi
al o church is possessed of immense
vi’ollh. some of its ministers feel
if they were ex- '<flkio entitled to
continuing power in the Christian
comm inity It happens tinfortunate-
!v for these individuals that "it be
ing themselves PuC.kinon. hut en
grafted scions of tiie scotch origin,
llioy do not succeed at d! in cen'ri !i-
ing the general synod of the Dutch
Church Thus the synod refused to
sanction their movements for a, Dutch
Snndav v !: ioi Union, or to In* respon
sible lor (.lie vagaries of theii Magazine
—now happily def'iuT. Another mis
fortune with which they have to strug
gle, is that every thing w hu h (hey take
bold of is hi apt to die in their hands.
Witness the .lows Society &e. The
husiiif of Foreign Missions was mi-
dbrtal * n and has been hitherto con-
dne.ted independently of their contiol
An I s > congenial is the dilTu&ion ol
the > S' spel among the heathen, to the
rinoCons of every pious lien it, . IG::»
they I svc not li-’cn tdile to prevent
Dutchmen, and Dnldi hur- hi-s from
<’onlribuliiig liberally to tiie suppmt
of Foreign Missio' s without sending
their charities througii what they
claim to be the cniy legitimate clian-
ncl.
I speak now only of a certain small
division of lho Dutch Church, chiefly
what are called the Scotch Dutch.—
To the Catholicism and liberality of
the ! etter part of that communion,
every one who is conversant with the i meul
tlie city ol | copolian and one Moravian. 'I'h
re to represent and conl’ol the c
itica of the whole church towards (he
poor Indians! The name adopted is
“The Indian Board, for the Emigra
tion, Preservation, and improvement
of tiie \horigines of America.”
By article dth, “this Board engag
es to afiuril to the emigrant Indians
all the necessary ins!ruction in t!>..■■
arts of life and tlie duties of reli
gion.”
By article • 5th, “i!d.s Board is
pledged to co-eperale with the Fed
eral Government of the United £ tales
in its operations on Indian aflVirs; and
in no instance to contravene its
laws.”
By article fbh they “i'lvite tiie cit
izens of the United States, witbout
respect to sect or party, r<
clitical, to co-opernti! •
in this lienevolf’nt enlorp:isc ”
It tlius appears that
whole is purely a piece < f
(••;il machinery in whii (i a f'e.-. miiiis-
’c.’s of the (tos)’cI lend tin ‘am Eon of
ihair name and station to shield the
government from the odium of its ow n
oppressions, and to impose upon (lie
poor Uhernkoes bv the high sounding
title of' Indian Board” fyo. with the
idea that their true friends, the ehne-
itii them
the
polit-
h! f lders hi th.e churches, weie cun-
'•-ned Several of tin* memkois of
/h a Board. (I hope however they
were not prnscii!) i ;e nu mbers c! t’.i
A.merk'.M) Board for Foreign V.kv'•••«.
And ail of tiiern oug|»l to he a little
•niaintcd w i*Ii the cfi’ocis of Christian-
itv-among Ihe south-western Indians
And yet they arc not ashamed to son
out the wicked falsehood, on the ics-
iimony of Governor Houston, tin t no
tiling good bus I icon uecompiis 1 ed
After ail the teslimnm efeye witness
's, of I’rr-sidenf Monroe, of Vice
President Calhoun, of Dis Worces
ter and Cornelius, Mi. Everts, rn
costs o; ot tiers. one word of this non.-
tide from religion am! society is !■•
: vei throw it ail.
ll is manifest nf a glance, ulm:
Gov. Houston’s okjeel is. even by I is
| own shew mg. Instead of helping tl :
| Indians forward, he won!,! throw them
I lack to that faded stale of elevation
a hioh they once ; cssessad; i. e. make
Item as crmpli to sav 'ccs as ( ver.
Ami the power mid influence v.i i b
ie may expect (o grin among then I
well illnstrufes tin* sentiment of a p.v i
ct. Ambition when toupied with hoi j
did selfishness and grovelling.!hough's |
“Would rather reign in hell than
in heaven.”
I will not remark upon Pie utter in
consistency of ministers of r e gospel,
in giving ciTne iey to tiie idea that the*
Indians must he civilized before they
ecu he ( hristii tiized; m r up.on’ the
palpable dishonesty of nil; :. Vig the dis
tress and poverty of the Creeks as ev
er evidence a.gn nst
11 a is, wo cannot p
charge. I am aw. a;
'tiit, by any reuerr
give nil net a'e idea oft I
peopfC to pi, is ns at a distm c
•wm> that no seme str.fr c. t
dl produee dif'cent irr.. rc-‘ : r
• 0. minds tl (!;:;< r< nt eve v i•>
-xor wiil l deny that, some st; t< r
' tw. h have been made of tin
j 'i o\ # c in on! s of the ( l',oi'(i| oos
' pi-cared to my own mind semi
(cn highly coloured. But of tin's
(Trtiii;i. that nothii
• arlher from the tru
in cut 3 whidi your
ic J you to make,
have the truth known,
i.mi i i,
us than vn! r,n-
‘"d guijiy to tbe
that i! ;r. tlifl’a.
deset i;;t ions, to
le A a
r aril
ps
is on
Ss s.
i r.is
i 01-
rn
; (ould well e-
li. than the btate--
infrima.r.ts f e
\ our desire is (o
iinvo no doul t.;
,) with eenfidonce on yoi i
I rcauutess to publish any ciifj'ereil
si at:u.lent, if it proceed from a source
vcu judge worlky < f-credit
itu lu;ve the inforna'icn second
hand ft cm “a leading man of f lie
ucn til Cher* kccs, ’ (a ttl i’e in;
iicuever, it rj pears.) ‘who has te:>r*>
a mimoroi's
c*, t>
oily l y a ( in rtl re
(he intiiai.s licquently c use
in y or sixty milts over tlie mom tab s
to ins grist mill to beg r pec !: ef!n-
erve I'han meal. ’ 'I'hal iustanees rnav
j l.a\ e occurred,.in which Indians bate
begged a peck of corn me; I at a grist
miiJ filly cr sixiy miles !) cm in me,
is-not impi'i'bablc. I know of a g:i«|-
nnli iwned Iiy a white man “who
has reared n numerous family bv o.
Ci/t rol.ee wife,” where, from its lo
cal situation in respect to a pnith 'rr»
j part ot the nation, such tilings :» v
And are th- o*
idoneo rtf a sim ilar state*'of w retchei
ness arn<’ng ti e Chcrt Lces 'I'ho hollow-1 easily have happened.
tian community, give them tip to the ! ness of that friendship to the ’ndirns ! not families in a state of abject ! *'g-
teiider me*’ des of Georgia. I which seeks such menus lo gain erotl- { g'ary in (he city of Philadelphia 3 But
It would seem as though men who 1 it, is sufficiently manifest The In-1 that Indians ‘ eoinc Jrafuenlhi" ff y
had much sell-res iect would not lend I din ns art* not such fools lint they will "f ' >| '*ty miles to that or any other mill
themselves to such a “"ledge to co- j inquire bow it happens tin t the mem-H 0 ki'.g a pet It t*l meal, I cannot yej
onerate with the I’eder I Govern- bees of this new Irdian Board did not ‘ * eve. !s ii m t possiMp. (ii: k the
its uioasttres, liglit or ("sooner find out their wonderful inter-] “out ■ has, tluoiigh
in all
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