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THE REFLECTOR.
MILLEDGEV1LLE, G. TUESDAY. SEP PEMiiiii'* ud. isia.
NO. 4".
3UTHEIIN INDIANS.
FROM Till I'll IRKLIN l(AT. IT I K.
■lourttnl written in tile Creek-nation ofIndian-
itlians liavo but few ideas on ill
f religion ; some of them have •>
ndistiiiet notion of a future state,
fever give themselves very littfi
concern on that head. If you ask
ality of Indians about their religioi
tell you it is a thing they know n >-
ut. An intelligent one will inform
he believes there is a great spirit.;.-
rules the sun and the moon,
to those who behave in this world
\\ arrives, he will, after death, givt
abounding in game, but if they Ire
old women they will go to one where
o game, or land to plant corn.—
ic whole of their theology, there
Ihing as prayer, or worship, among
“here is no prospect of their evei
Christians—Christianity is tm
religion for their comprehension
samples of the whites is not calcu-
ake a favourable impression : And
anrholy fart that all the efforts ol
naries merely implanted aiming
jystitious feelings about what they
uprehend, of wliirh wicked men a
h have availed themselves, and uu
me of perophets. orrasioned all the
,t have desolated their land,
are white men to be found with the
ihes, exhibiting the disgusting spee-
a retrogade from civilization, men
e abandoned their country and so. i-
iralizrd themselves among the sav
opted their manners and habits, anc
generally more vicious and degraded
Indians themselves. Hut 1 was
in remark that this base degeneracy.
;h sometimes the effei t of choice, was
?quontly the offspring of crime or ne-
of enlightened men, or the duties of civil
ized life, as the Tiger of the desert. Na
ture has endowed the blacks with intellect,
denied to the Indian ; a negro can be taught
ill the acts of civilized life, and they have
frequently developed a capacity to attain and
practise the higher branches of knowledge
not so the Indian, with more courage,
spirit and hardihood, lie has infinitely less
pliability of mind. He delights in ignorance,
Vs prejudice against civilization is invinci
ble, and his attachment to a wild, imrc-
trained, savage, barbarous manner of liv-
ng. is not to bo overcome. He is a rough
harron rock, unfit for the hammer of the
mason, the chisel of the sculptor, or the
hand of the cultivator.
Extinction is the inevitable fate of this
race of men. It appears destined by tiic
God of nature, that they should yield to tire
superior genius and intelligence of the
whites ; and although it, cannot be denied,
that they w -to the original holders of this
continent, and we are intruders, who have
gradually dispossessed them, yet that wrong
has been done, it is in vain to think of re
tracting ; and as Christians, as civilized men
we can have no regret in perceiving a race
of uu u become extinct, alter every effort
has been-made in vain, to wean t lie in fmn
their savage propensities, and make then,
useful to God or society, and convert then
from their barbarous paganism, who imv
never developed a capacity for tire attain
ment or exercise of any of the arts that a
dorn human nature, and who, notwithstand
ing their sagacity, and occasional display of
superior acuteness, are in the means, eu
tirely untameablc, savage, ferocious am.
ignorant, and can, in comparison with tic
population that take their places, he consid
ered as but one: degree above the beasts m
the forest.
w* is no greater reproach, and nothing
much dread, as the stigma of cow
an Indian woman once railed her
coward, Ire walked deliberately
rleftof 100 feet high, jumped from it
(into the river ; by some cxlraordina-
I fortune he reached the shore; not
I with this display of his intrepidity,
|diately ascended a set ond time, junip-
i from the cleft, fell into tire Alabama.
I seen no more,
natabaw, the famous Choctaw chief,
beard that a white man had called
(ward went to the factory, bought
gun powder, carried it to the \ii-
lie the man resided, lighted a lire
Id seating hi.osclf upon the barrt
pd his accuser to come 2nd scat him-
and he would blow them both up-
Inge was declined.
[are physicians among the Indians.
no contemptible skill in the cure
Biot wounds, and tire bite of snakes,
[hods of proceeding in these cases
i secret. The Creeks have few mc-
jdeas, they manufacture household
Mid silver ornaments for tire nose
but they are ill made, (inmscy.
bit no indications of ingenuity ; in
ket they are vastly interior to the
fihahititig the north west part of
bent.
Attempts have been made by the
lutes to civilize those prople, hut
[proved abortive. Children have
from among them, A every effort
Ive them the advantages of eiluca-
I they have returned to tire forest
[ages than before, Proper pri sons
[sent among them to teach the arts
lure, and fanning utensils have
jihed, hut they cannot he persuaded
their fine lands. >V tI) y j, aV c
kt mechanical ty rt o«j,Lut they re-
|ir own country with a fixed de-
never to exercise them. Tin
ktes have been aerie-J of ptirsn-
pistand fmicions policy towards
in fact they have been treated
(ini kindness—troops are station-
ait intrusions upon them. Trail*
(established to sell them goods at
[-individuals prohibited from trad-
Ir purchasing their lands ; an a
jted to each tribe, to live among
look after tltrir interest, and n
eirs have ever been held by ilu
ktes, that were not acquired by
pr purchase.
good traits in the character of
lie is honest; theft is a crime
common than with whites, and
[they are remarkably punctual ii
•debts. The persevering inter
ayed in various wars, their hold
kc independent spirit scorning t
lational independence, much less
ke the bla ks to personal slavery
eristics deserving tire greates'
ut they arc vindictive, crafty,
kd ferocious as untanieable, an.i
I ol‘ being moulded into the ways
Banking.
Niles* WcckU Itcghsler.
EQUALIZATION OF EXCHANGE.
Let every Shy lock leave his hole, and
the open day boldly sharpen his knife, i
take “ tire pound of flesh” nearest the hear'
of his honest neighbor ! Whet away,‘•legi
timate” descendants of those whom Heaven
ly Purity lashed with < ords. and drove head
long from tire temple of God, polluted by
their infamous exchanges of money, for the
day of your triumph is at Hand. It is no
longer necessary to avoid the public indignu-
ti >ii, that you should do business in se re!,
and ask, passers-by, will ymi he shaved sir—
you may unblushingly loll at your ease and
rest assured of plenty of customers. You may
cut deep instead of merely skinning as liere-
tofoic—strike at the arteries of lire public
body and get blood enough at once to swim
in, being no longer contented with leeching
it from tire veins of labor. Such is the de
cree ofthc Hug-Barons—they have resolved
to give extent and respectability to your pro
fession ! Nothing is now wanting to tire
perfection of the « paper system,” but tire
consent of the people to stand still, and lei
its manufacturers have their will of them !
if the people do stand still, and with
arms folded like Russian slaves, patiently
bear the application of your knives they
will deserve to he cursed with all the chari
ties of the “ Holy Inquisition,” and he—con
demned “standing, silting, walking, lying,
sleeping, and waking,V and even merit af
ter death to lie buried in tire highways, with
stakes driven through their carcases, as self-
murderers for there is a point at which
forbearance is most criminal,
llfrc is the decree of the barons :
(•IRCtLAR.)
“ Bank' of the United Slates, August 08, 1818.
Sir,— I am directed to inform you, that tire
notes of tiiis bank, which arc made payable
at its several offices of discount and deposit,
w ill not be received at this bunk, after this
except in payment of debts due the
United States. Such notes, however, ofthc
offices, as your bank may have received, du
ring this day, will he received in exchange
to-morrow morning.
(Signed) JON'A. SMITH, cashier.
, Ksq. cashier Bank of
What was the great condition on which (lie
bank of tire United States was incorporated :
It was. that the exchange should be equaliz
ed—that we should have what was called a
•• national currency.” It was for tire sake
of tiie.se things, so much to be desired, that
the constitution was exceedingly strained;
if not sensibly violated in the opinion of some
who voted for chartering this bank : and
What lias already happened ? In two short
years the last vestige of a balance in favor
of the people for the immense advantages
bestowed to Very “ belzebubs in specula
lion,” is wrested from them with a degree of
impudence equalled only by its violation of
every principle of common justice, if not of
common honesty.*
The whole course of lire monied tra*is a *
tions of tire United States are changed in
one day, without previous intimation of th ■
design, nr a moment of time being allowed
to tire public to prepare fur it. Iain lost in
astonishment when I contemplate this high
handed measure. “ Alexander the deliv
erer” or tire dev of Algiers, would have
paused before being guilty of its folly ; and
certainly would have issued their orders U
their slaves in a less insolent style.
Some have endeavored to soften tire pro
cedure by saying, such was the practice oi
the old bank of the United States. It was
so, partially, and perhaps generally. Hut
the condition of the establishment of the
new bank was, that it should nut act as tire
old bank did ; and the old usage is no more
an excuse for the present rule, than it is for
one man to commit burglary, because ano
ther of the same name committed the same
crime several years ago.
It is not easy for me to guess the precis:
intention of this act—and be it remembered,
that banks no more than kings, arc bound to
assign a reason fur their wishes or will!
Perhaps, the bank, embarrassed by the dread -
fill amount of its stock notes, has resolve::
upon it. as the only means of keeping up tin
makers of them, for tlreir stock will noi
pay tire amounts: that some have had
accommodation on the faith of it:—.in'] il ;
a cre forced into the market, would probably
reduce the price to par, though now notniii-
• ily quoted at 1 *2nf Perhaps, as the gov
•rntnent of thr U nited Slates is about to re
claim five millions of the people’s money,
which tlie hank has long had a gratuitous
esc of, it is its design to draw the whole oi
Ibis sum directly from the state, banks, by
denying to (hem tire credits heretofore is-
reived by free deposits of the notes of what
mist now Ire farcically called the “ national
irMicy,” no matter where, payable.^—
Perhaps as congress and the. state, legist
fares are soon to lie in session, the bank in-
'ends to make the public misery an agent to
stifle enquiry, or to demand something not
el prepared for public view, Perhaps, it
Is inly to convert lire bank into a vast sha '•-
iig simp—in which grave men ussemb!
round lire board, shall fix the Jew broker
age to Ire exacted of the people, from tint
time, and at all times, as they sec proper.•
—Perhaps, lastly, the report may be true
Hint there have not been any real sales of
stock in England for a considerable time
mil that John Hull’s talks, not liking the
stork-note part of fire establishment, and
deeming it a Yankee trick, have resolved to
have nothing mure to do with it, until the
stock is really paid for, as it was originally
intended by congress, and expected by the
people that it .should be.f
Hut whatever may be the design of this
procedure, or to whatever cause it maybe
ascribed, this result is certain, that every
man in lire United States, 50 or 100 persons
excepted, will suffer by it j:—for it lias rem
the chain of business from one end of the
country to the other, and positively stopped
the solvent local banks from affording their
arcustemcd accommodations. It will give
business to perhaps one thousand additional
brokers in tire United States, and employ
many additional millions in shaving w hi. n
ought to be devoted to holiest purposes. Tor
all the offices, it seems, are ordered to fol
low tire lead of the mother in iniquity—notes
even of lire mother bank were refused at the
office iu Baltimore, without a moment’s pre
vious public intimation that they would not
lie received, and this was the case every
wlrere.§
The facilities of remittance being tin at
once destroyed, the discount hitherto p id
on good bank bills must be advanced, and
in my others that were at par, or nearly as
good as at par, will be from two to five per
nr. under it.^J Fur tire state banks must
reject each other’s paper : and their custom
of drawing upon one another must ire great
ly diminished, if not altogether discontinu
ed—unless they loudly appeal to tire pc i-
ple and combine to support themselves against
the bank of the United States. But tlreir
appeal may be iu vain—too few of them have
served even mercy at our hands.
What then is to be done ? The people
must themselves rise up and command what
reason and justice have begged for. They
must speak a language to their representa
tives that will be heard, and felt to shake
the foundation of the capital at Washington,
at the seats of the governments of the several
states. It is the opinion of many, and in-
Iced, it seems a just one, that not oniy the
spirit, but the letter of the charter ol tiie
bank of tire United States was grossly viola
ted on tire very day that tire books were first
opened, and especially in the general evasion
of lire payment of tire second and third iti-
sulurents, by tire great stockholders—let
<tie facts be severely enquired into. Let the
public voice demand that every member of
' ongress who is a stockholder in this hank,
or a shaver of notes, shall retire from
ids seat when tire mat'er is discussed, under
penalty of the public scorn, that the subject
in ay he disinterestedly acted up in, as every
subject oiurht to be—and the institution will
no. reformed or be destroyed as right shall ap
pear to demand of the representatives of an
abused people. I wrote the word “destroy
ed’' with perfect coolness and deliberation ;
uni perhaps, it is well, 'that at a time of
peace and when the government is unembar
rassed, as to funds, the subject is presented
fir consideration. TV institution is exceed
ingly powerful. A prim ip.il stockholder and
•tie of the directors of the mother hank, lias
diserved that Ire •• trembled for the standing
>t the government, and for the liberties of
people, if this great engine, ever passed
into the hands of tlreir enemies.” The pro
bability is, that a majority ol'the stork which
is really paid for, belongs to British subjects
• Iready ; and if need requires, enough coin
venieut tools may be found in tire United
litotes to manage it as lord Castlereagli or
even Mr. Canning, would direct them. A
meeting of the republicans of Middletown,
Con. lias been held—col. James i’luin, chair
man, and Henry Wolcott, clerk, by whom
the branch at that place has been publicly
nounced as being directed contrary to tlreir
w isius and expei tations. More of such sub
jects hereafter.
it would seem that the point of time which
every reflecting man lias fearfully looked for
several years, lias nearly arrived. That
tire “ paper system” would blowup, has been
.is coniidenlly exp.-, ted as that tire human
body would die. And seeing that it must
explode, tire sooner that it does explode tho
better will it be for the p. ople. Thanks be
.o God !—that they are yet able to bear an
operation which, if postponed four or five
years longer, by its increased force would
destroy tens of thousands of them. Tire
thing that lias happened was anticipated—wo
are not surprized by it, except at the unjus
tifiable suddenness of tire measure, and at
what we must call, the impudence of its
manner. No pretext is assigned—no reason
given ; after tire manner ol tire ungrateful
wrote!) who si’.s upon lire tkVnne of Spain,
we are to’.d “ tire king wills it,” and obedi
ence is expected as a thing of course. But,
thougii the minds of many dealing men may
be bvought to bow to this ordinance of tho
mighty, the sturdy free-born laborers of tire
, ... ,,,,,, United States, the agriculturalists, meehan-
+ I:uninformed that tins is probably the leading cause . 111 . 11111 r.with the itimiIiicI ive
of the offensive procedure Lumbered with almost tens of ‘‘ h * l lU m-mul-(tuu I s, Wltl) lie piouiicme
millions in stock notes, and the United States’ part of the i people til every class, will rally 1*0 and
hie. But the dog grasping at the shadow in the water,
lost tlie meat in Ins mouth. The bank may feel a momen
tary-ease, but there will he a re-act ion ; and leputat.oli
once lost is not easily regained.
capital inactive, as to tiie production of money, the urea',
resource of tlie bank has been tlie public deposits ; and a
part of these being withdrawn, lias frightened them into
what must beestcemed a suic.d.d act——lor it is impos
sible that the people will bear with it.
* The amount of our money which the government of
the U. States is about to appropriate te, the. payment ot
our debts, is stated to lie S3,1.176,850—being halt lie a*
mount of the unredeemed Louisiana stock—of this, near
ly 1,800,000 ts payable at London, and 2.500,000 at Am
sterdam ; the rest is on the books of tf j several loan of
fiecs tn the United States.
J This brokerage has already taken place—2 1-2 per
cent. I am told is required between Ikdtimore and Wash
ington city—boili ways, l presume!
t 1 bebeve tins iu very serious fact—and it is added,
that attempts to pawn certain portions of tlie stock in
London, have failed. Whether this intended p.wningwas
tlie act of the bank, or of some of the huge speculators in
its stock, lam not advised: nor is the difference very
great, lie that as it may. And there is nut any thing do
ing m tiie stock of the hank in the U. States. No body
wants to buy.
save tire liberties of tlreir country. As my
soul lives—.as 1 humbly hope for happiness
hereafter, l would rather be a subject ol lire
Russian autocrat than a creature to live on
the favor of a monied aristocracy. An mtli-
\ ideal tyrant may have a sense of honor and
feel shame—hut tlie “ council often,” ny li-
viding an art of villainy, never had the
funnel* nor felt tlie latter.
To the polls then, my countrymen !—to
tire polls !—Dismiss every rag-baron, great
and small, from tlie general ami state legis
latures ! Put yourselves on your defence,
or be eaten up by them !
I calculate my own loss t,l Sl° 3 P er n.atfth, fo two
months to come. A pretty specimen of wholesale swind
ling! and 1 can't heip t—let.-
•Tiie notice of tiie New-York branch was peremptory;
and tne i kc was probably issued at every shop m tlie U.
States. The suddenness of tfie measure is unpardonu-
§ The procedure may well be esteemed impudent—in
fact, it smells strongly of dishonesty. The hank had se
cretly determined that to-morrow it would not receive
such and such notes—and, and therefore, to-day, it paid
out nothing but such notes! If 1 vn re to give to one ot
my workmen, in payment of his wages, a hank-h.il to-do
which 1 privately knew would not be current to-morrow,
and it remained on lits hands—lie would very nearly think
•hat I w as a —speculator. I had written a word where
the dasli is that probably would have been easier under-
s-ood than th,.tot " speculatorbut it is uncourtly, and
iiny meaning,will be discovered without it,
U A B1N ET F U UN IT U RE.
TTM1E subscribers have on hand some hand
le some Mahogany Furniture, which they will
dispose of on moderate tei ms. Persons wishing
to purchase furniture will do well to call on us,
as we intend keepingit constantly on hand. As
soon as the boats can ascend the river we shall
have a good assortment. Also a few dj,zen Fan
cy Chairs. Any orders from this or the adjacent,
counties will be punctually attended to.
M \ It SHALL & SANDERS.
.Mifledgct ilia-, September 4