About Cherokee phoenix. (New Echota [Ga.]) 1828-1829 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1828)
As there is now a war between Furkey and England, T am going to Moroeco and Tombuctoo, by the way of Tunis and Algiers; which journey | am making as [ did in Mesopotamia, viz. as a poor man, in the quality of a menial servant to some African mer chant, either Jewish or Mahomed; and; with the Gospel in my hand, preching where ever I can; which like wise is the only way in those countries to go safely through; and, if the Lord please, I hope to succeed at the same time in this way better than any other traveller did in eatering Tombuctoo, where I learn Jews are to, be found, and another sect believed to be the descendants of the Hittites of old.— Travelling in this way, of course nei ther Lady Georgiana’s income nor that of the society will be needed; and should we move mn a year hence for Jerusalem, then I will apply again to the society to allow me to draw for “the expense of the journey to Jerusa lem. [ beg, however, not to be un derstood that on this account I should not feel myself under obligation to -give accounts to the society; on the contrary, I shall alivays send my jour nals regularly to the society for pul lication, but my mind is more easy in not receiving a regular salary from the society. ' lintend leaving this place at the end ‘of the month.—N. Y. Obs. NEW ECHOTA: THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1828, ‘TO READERS AND ’CORRESP()NDENTS? Screio’s Communjcation has been re ceived, but it is teo personal for insertion. In consequence of the difficulties in pre curing paper, we shall not be able to issue tur 11th No. until week afier next, A few weeks hence we hope to have a large ‘supply of good paper from the North. ,/ -Onr readers may wish to know the rea son why they do not receive their papers as soon as they might. All the papersthat are sent by mail are regularly and punctu ‘ally put into the post office in this pldce, but acceording to the present arrangement of the mails, they are obliged to lie at Spring- Pplace nearly a week.. Application has been made to the General Post Office to remedy this inconvenience; and we hope the application will be complie! with, In fatare our paper will be issued on Wednes day instead of Thursday, in anticipation of el Rmtice ! The Arkansas Cherokee Delegation now -at Washington, appear to be disappointed, -as they are likely not to effect the objects of ‘their Mission. 'They express some dissat “sfaction, One of the murderers, whose trial we noticed in our last, was condemned at Chickamauga Court House, and executed on the 19th inst. Intemperance has been the ruin of this man, as it has been with thousands of others. We sincerely hope ‘this instance of the evil effects of ardent spi rits will prove a warning to our Citizens, such asindulge themselves in the excessive use of it, and to such as deal in it for the purpose of gain, SOBAATE. A9RY ARF LAY SDIIRPL JATI, QG GAY DSONT RRPZD. SRV MG ChUod BOTPRLE DARRT 04 GSI°- HB4T. OCLHTRVH CCWOA ORY. ORY A IPETARLVZ RZ ATRA °h STLONET. — RAN AW G PIPLO~. INDIAN EMiGRATION. “We had occasion, in the 'first number of our paper, to. publish an extract of Col. M’Kenney’s letter to the Secretary of War, on Indian emigration, together with some ‘remarks of our’s which we could not very weliavoid, censidering our situation, and our views of the subject. An unknown ad wocate of this new system of emegration has sent us the communication published be fow, intended to explain and defend the po licy and principles recommended by Col. M’Kenney in the above mentioned letter.— Weare opposed, as our readers undonbted 1y know, to the removal of the Cherokees; particularly under such principles. - The objections to our removal we have not yet offered to the public, but which will probably, at some fature time, be done thro’® the medium of this paper. It may suffice for the present to observe, that it isa mat ter of great doubt with us, whether this po licy of removing the Indians beyond the li mitsof any Sate, is rearly founded upon ¢rue friendship, having for its sole amd great end, the good of the Ahorigines of this country, This doubt becomes strength ened from the fact, that this policy is sus tained by recommendations of a coercive nature, and heartily welcomed by persons, known to be decidedly opposed to every In dian improvement; Is it reasonabie {o suppose; that those who would find fanlt with the General Govern ment for instructing the Indians, will exercise true friendship towards them, by sending them a theusand miles, & forcing them to undertake a project of the mostun certain kind? We make this remark with-. out implicating, in the least, the motives of Col. M’Kenney, and many true friends who are on the same side of the question, We are not ignorant of the fate of those tribes which ¢ A Friend” invites usto con sider as examples of the fatal eflects of our intercourse with the whites, We know very well that tribe afier tribe have dwin dled away, and that the remnants of some are greatly degraded, and bid far, without judicious measures for their recovery, to tred the foot-steps of their fore fathers. The question, however, comes with great force;. will a removal far to the west, remedy the evils which have followed us from the dis covery of America? Will a residence west of Missouri, or elsewhere, beyond the lim its of any State or 'l'erritory, prevent the destroying effects of white population, and its concomitants evils? As regards the Cherokees this question is peculiarly inte resting, and ought not to beanswered with out due consideration. It is now admitted by all,we believe, that we are an improving people; that we are ona constant and grad= ual march towards a civilized state; and that, though we have to encounter many counteracting influences, yet," we are on the increase in numbers; and that the pres ent appearances are favourable to our complete recovery from a savage state,.— Now, is it a part of wisdom to leave our in \l:nnt institutions, our houses, our farms, and ‘go and unite ourselves with our brethren (many of whom are still savages) and try a system of civilization, uneertain & unprece dented. We hope we shall be pardoned when we answer in the negative. Such a course appears to us somewhat like (to use an old and common saying,) ‘“‘jumping out of the fryingpan into the fire.” Mz. BoupinoT Epitor. The first number of the Chero kee Pheenix hes been received by the writer of this note—and he is grati fied to find in it the evidence of so much intelligence. You, sir, will have only to follow the dictates of your own enlightened mind, and avoid personalities and coarse, and vulgar language, which unfortunately charac terize too many of the press's of the states, to succeed. In regard to some remarks on Col. M’Kenney’s report to the Secretary | of War, headed ¢ Indian Enigration,” the writer of this note would offer what to him appears to be their mean ing—They are, First—ln the spirit of true Friend ship; and in accordance with his known solicitude for the happiness of the Indian race. < Second—They (the ‘remarks) do not look to a removal except upon the sure basis of elevating the Indians in privileges and in prosperity. On the first proposition it is only necessary to refer to his expressions of friendship for the Cherokees, as con tained in the report copied in the Pheenix. Nothing can be more kind; and I am sure there are none who will doubt their sincerity. But Col. Mec- Kemey wrote amidst fears, lesi the very improvements and plan of Go vernment adopted by the Cherokees should prove their more sudden over throw! He knew well the feelings of the states whose jurisdictions take hold of the Cherokee lands; he knew - well how active the spirit was, and yet is, for the acquisition' of those lands, and above all how fearful the question of state rights, and jurisdiction, were becoming, nay had become, and that out of all this, (as is the way of the world,) if not by a sudden blow yet by slow process, such as extend ing the laws of those states, (of which it is believed there are five,) over the Cherokees, and by the consuming in fluence of white neighbourhood-~the Cherokees of whom he says in his re port, < They deserve to be respected and helped,” would waste away and be no more a people! It was to avoid this sad result, (and the past gives awful promonitions!) that Col. McKenney appears to have spoken in his report, as with the voice of warning—and he pointed to a place of refuge, and to this means of preservation. It was to a country and a well furnished home, which were to be first chosen, and then secured in the future, a gainst the dreadful consequences of the past! I enclose a copy of his re ports—in which you will see miore fully his object, as explained ip his talk to the Chickasaws. There is no unkindness in all this towards.the In dians. Time wult test this. . Col, Mec- Kemey knows well how buoyant ave the nopes of the enlightened among the Cherokees; and he respects that feeling—but he knows also that like feelings and like hopes, and like advan ces in improvement once distinguished the Indians of Martha’s Vineyard and ¥lizabeth's Isles, &c. and that Noo- NATOMEN, where their altars and fire sides once blazed, and where the voice of praise, and the words of life were once spoken, and cheerful and inno cent mirth were enjoyed; and, those fields and worlkshops that bore witness to the advances of 'civilization exist now, only a mournful prooi that whilst the Indians retain their present rela tions to us, which are those ‘of the past also, they ecamnot survive,: but must, by a power no less operative thaw a law of nature, perish! Go now to the kKast. Ask where are those fiourishing and improved bands over whom Elliot and Mayhew and Kirk land and others avatched with such paternrl care?—The answer will be —they are no more! and yet they had to contend against none of those . de vollring influences, (Rum only except ed) which are now destroying the remnants of those who remain. | There is little doubt but the Indi ans who remain may, for the honor of the Government, yet be saved--but it will hardly be expected that the laws of the social and relative states, and which have been so depressing and runinous to Ipdians, can operate in the future, otherwise than as they have operated in the past. Better, far better, to confe up to the privileges of the Republic, in a Territory where equal laws and equal rights are secured, than to be contend ing against the powess that war/upon you now, and the influences which must coutinue te depress and ywaste you away as a people. - It is this end Col. McKeuney| has in view; and your intelligence x}mst accord with its truth and justice.| A FRIEND. From the Honduras Gazette. INSURRECTION IN GUATALAMA, " Barize, Sat. Feb. 2, 1828. By the Mexican kagle, which left Omoa on the 28th, and arrived here on the evening of the 31st ult. we have received intelligence in some measure anticipated for two or three weeks past. The commandant of that place, Arrazola, with 18 or-20 persons on board, had fled from thence and taken refuge here, inconsequence of a general insurrection of. the Ne groes, to which it appears that they wetre inclined on the one hand by the San Salvador party, and on the other by their own propensity to plunder.— As the current report speaks of an in surrection of slaves, it may not be un necessary to remark, that there are in fact no slaves in Omoa, but that the insurrection has been so denominated, in consequence of its being principal ly headed by runaways from this set tlement, who, the moment they enter into the territory of Central America, are by the too well known decree of the government of that republic, held as free. It appears that a party of the San Salvador troops advanced in the course of last month on Omoa, and halted at San Pedro Usula, a town a bout ten leagues distant. Disposi tions were immediately made at O moa, for embarking the' property in the American, English and French vesselsinport, or for depositing it with in the walls of the castle. A party of negroes was then formed to proceed towards San Pedro, to endeavour to dislodge the enemy. 'This was, how ever, frustrated by the attempts which were made by the emmissaries of the San Salvador party to seduce these negroes as well as the lower 01- ders of the people in Omoa from their allegiance to the Guatemalean gov ernment, in which they completel: succeeded. In the mean time in O moa, from an entire want of confi dence in each other, all was doubt, fear, distrust and confusion. In this state of universal anarchy, the party of negroes which had been despatch ed to Pedro, returned, and haviig been strengthened by the junction of the major part of the lower orders, began to manifest a disposition to drive out the respectable white inhabitants resident there, using towards them menaces of the utmost rigorde com pel them tp embark, The ;‘émmam dant seeing that he had no one on ~hom he could place the slightest con fidence for assistance,excepton the few whites' who surrounded him, deter minetl to abanden the place, and he was immediately followed by the ma jor part of the inhabitants. We are happy to state that amidst the vio lence that was threatened, no lives were taken. - Thisisprincipally to be ‘attributed to the women, whoare sta ‘ted to have been particularly instru mental in deterring the men from the use of the knife. 1 Removal of the Cherokees.—On this subject we confess we are not sorry to see the Cherokee Pheenix speak a decided language. To remove them would be to overthrow their ineipient establishinents, and to check their progress in those arts, institutions and habits, which give to civilized and Christian life, its charm—its dignity and worth. The attempt to do this— however great the bribe we may offer as the price of their degradation— seems fo us most iniquitous.— Permont Chronicle. Justifieble Murder.—ln the early part of the niglit of the Ist inst. a ne gro man, whose name we have not learnt, made an attempt to break in to the house of Mrs. M’Laughlin, a widow Lady, living near Massay’s Cross Roads, in this county. Mrs. M’Laughlin put a child out at a win dow, and sent it to a neighbor’s house for assistance—a friend came and re mained until a fate hour during which time the attempt was not venewed.— apprehending no further danger, he returned home. Soon after the negro again renewed his efforts to hreak in to- the housé, when the child, as be fore, was despatched for assistance.— In the mean time the ndzro was mak ing rapid ingress at Mrs.. M’L’s cham ber window, and she found it neces sary to stand on the defensive, accor dingly commenced operations with an axe-helve upon his head, and by the time her neighbor arrived she bad des patched him—llife wds extinct, and she saved from robbery, violation, and perhaps death.— Chesiertown (Jid.) Telegraph. The Rogues Paradise.~¥Florida must be a paradise for rogues. On the 16th ult. a man named James Moore, was apprehended for making and passing ‘counterfeit dollars, and afi¢r exami nation was ordered to be committed to prison. A mittimus for this purpose was made out by the magistrate; but as there was neither jail nor jailer in the country, this document was ulti mately thrown away by the sheriff; and the coiner discharged.— Commer cial. Jerman Baker, ¥sq. Treasurer of the state of Virginia, committed sui cide at his house in Richmond, on Friday night -last. It is mentioned that apprehensions are entertained that the Treasury of the state will suffer, as a committee had com- | menced the investigation of his ac counts the day previous which ii is conjectured, led to the melancholy event. The Richmond Whig remarks that few events have been, or could be more distressing. .~ A large family, are not only deprived of their protect or, but by means which superadd new pangs to their distress. The Richmoud Compiler says—he seems (o have executed his purpose i the most deliberate manner. At a late hour on Thursday night, his family retired to rest, leaving him in one of his lower apartments. To wards day-break, some alarm was created by his absence from his, own room. On making a search, it was ascertained that the parlour door was locked, and he was found in it, in al most an exhausted condition, with a | handkerchief tightly drawn around his throat, connected by a string with a slip knot to his hands. = Efforts were made to save him; but he refused to be bled in the arm—and although he consented to take a dose of medicine from the hands of his child, yet he ~was too far exhausted; he resolutely resisted every other atte;}g»yto re lieve him—He took an affectionate leave of his family—and about 9 o’clock he breathed his last.” : He is said to have addressed a fare well letter tohis family, and to have dispatched one to'his sony living sev eral miles from this city: He alsc wrote a short and pathetic note to an old friend, and one of the securities of his Treagurer’s bond, praying him to pity, toforgive and to forget him— this note was without any signature.-# e left pérticular' directions about {he hnmble maoner m which he wishd# ¢d his remains to be intered. * Dog-Mill.—An ingenious Meclion# ic, Mr. Matthias, of this city, has in operation in, kings-strect, a mill tor sawing timber for sashes and Window Blinds, drivennot by steam power, nor water, nor catile power, but by Dog power. Four dogs belong to the establishment. They .are’ worked two at a time, for.about fifteen min utes, when the team is taken off, and a relay of the two other dogs put te Tabor. They travel on the circums ference of the inside of a wheel about 12 or 13 feet in diameter, which gives ‘motion to the machinery, wkich drives circular saw with great velocity.—~ It requires some days and some art 1o break a dog in. 1t is really amusing to observe the sagaeity of these anim-= als. 'They are taught a prrctical fes son, that industry is necessary to on imal welfare. The cost of keeping four dogs is estimated at only 6d pe¥ day.—T'roy Seniinel. : To the Publishers of Papers and Peri odieal Works throughout the Usniled States. | ) ! It is intended before, or certainly by the first of May next, in a Pamph let with other statistical matter, {0 notice all the Newspapers end Peris odicals in the United States, and the conditions of publication, &e. A copy containing the above shall be faithivis ly forwarded to each of you, ywho wil} msert this notice once, and forward a paper or a copy: of the. work yoiy: publish, to Philadelpbia, directed tß' “ THE TRAVELLER:.? Philadeiphia, Feb. 12, 1828, Stays.—Strong stays, which do the duty of the muscles placed by nature around the spine, cause these mugd cles todiwindle fiom inactiony so that afterwards, when the support of ithe stay fails or hecomecs unequal. the back bends or ‘twists. . Stays. con therefore neither helpto make strong and well {ormed backs originally. nog can‘they be a remedy after the weak ness has'appeared. = A healthy yorng wwoman from the country, whose spive. lies deep between the firm cnshiors of mustle which supportiit, if braced up in tight stays, according to town fash ion, will frequently exhilit, at the, end of a short time, such a wasting, of flesh, that the points of bone in the spine may he counted by the eye. y Arnctt’s Elements of Physics: The mind of the greatest man on. earth, is not so independent of cira cumstances, as not to feel inconve nienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or pulley is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now: afly is hoz zing by his ear; it is quite enovgh to, unfit him for giving good counsel. If you wish him to see the rights of the ease, drive away that insecty which suspends . bis reasoning ‘powers, and frets that mighty mind which goveins cities and kingdoms.— Paseal. Dr. Samuel G. Howe, who hes res cently returned to the U. S. from Greece, proposes to publish a “Histos, rical Sketeh of the Greek Revolution,’ OBITUARY: We were in hopes of obtaining, for the’ columns of our paper, a biographical.notice of the late Rev. John Gambold, one of the first Missionaries to this Nation, At presd ent, we merely give a Notice of his deat}; sent to us by a bereaved fellow lahdurer, — We take pleasure in inserting it, though at this late hour. : ¢ Departed from thislife, November Yth 1527, at the Movavian Missionary station at Ochigelogy among the Chers okees, the Rev. JOHN GEZMBOLD', Aged 67 years, 4 months and 21 daysg of a pectoral dropsy. - C His faithfulness, humility, and zeal, for the missionary cause; in_behalf of which he sacrificed every ‘thing, hid childlike confidence in the heavenly Father, which was néver shaken, evefi in the most difficult and pressing cir: cunistances. his philanthropic, collects ed, and highly circumspect hehavioud” in word and deed, which was so pecu liarly adapted to the character of the nation, anong which he preached the Gospel, “and by which he was estecm ed and loved ag a Father—,all these. qualities will ipsure to the“d’ear de ceased, a gratéfixl and ¢lorior's tribute in the vanks of departed, and illustris ous misgionaries. i ᏘᎧᎾᏮᏩᏛᏍᏗ., ! ᎢᎩᎦᏘᏯ ᎫᏧᏬᎸ ᏨᏓᎵᎦᏥᏯᏂᏍᎬ ᎤᏂᎬᏫᏳᎯ ᎥᏝ ᎪᎱᏍᏗ ᎤᏍᏆᏂᎪᏗ ᏱᎨᏎᎢ. ᎥᏝ ᏗᎧᎾᏩᏛ-”- ᏍᏗ ᎢᎩᏍᏆᏂᎪᏛ ᏳᏐᏅᏤᎮ ᎤᎬᏫᏳᎯ. ᏄᏍᏛ ᏉᏍᎩᏂ ᎪᏢᎬ ᏗᏑᏥᏃᏁᎮᎢ.,. ᎠᏴᏠᎭ” ᏄᏁᏛ Ꭲ ᎪᏢᎬ ᎾᏍᎩᏯᎢ... ; Ꭵ
