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¥ ^ arrftir——1 HEW ECHOTA, WEDNESDAY MAY 28, 1828. NO. 14. EDITED BY ELIAS BOUDINOTT PRINTED WEEKLY BY ISAADH. HARRIS, , POE THE CHEROKEE NATION.; . Ajf-82 50 if paid ‘in' advance, 83 in six months, or $3 50 if paid at the end of the year. : To subscribers who pan read only the Cherokee language the price will be $2^00 in advance, or $2,50 to be paid within the year. Every subscription will.be considered as continued unless subscribers give notice to the contrary before the commencement of a new year. .<• .. [ f .. f Any person procuring six subscribers, and becoming responsible for the payment, shall receive a seventh gratis. * Advertisements will be inserted at seven ty-five,cents.per square for the first insei^ tio'n, and thirty-seven and a half cents for each continuance; longer ones in propor tion. ' . ICPA11 letters addressed to the Editor, post paid, will receive due atteiition. airy 3 <ra vo*a a d k*i s e u,g£? Jkxaa tAJkw tr*v» JBtfbaa l4o?a. b©./ie AhWBAdey ktA v$v (p&<i)sa *v4o5J, TCTZ TEA?0-<r» 00.1,5 oepoS.1. TCTZ t»BP T<30*A TB De.T^JEv^j^KT D»4 O0JBA I-4JeA. D*J*o?iEZ TB yiV DeJ-Soei-JM, O-yVlT D.0P 0»0.!S.I HiW. ©wyz o»<xr ahoiuidfy, \vf*v« ds*i (POJBU M^A F9ABU*, TCTZ -TEJJOif^ D6* JJWSB'oBA. KTJIZ D^P y W <6I» 0»9ABA* bur De.r^^u. AGENTS FOR THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX. / The following persons are authorized to tfeceiye subscriptions and payments for the Cherokee Pboeqix, ~ 1 V „• ' V Henry Hiix, Esq. Treasurer of the A. B. C; F. M. Boston, Mass. George M. Trac y, Agent of the A. B. C. F.M. New York. ! #. - Rev. A. D. Eddy, Canandaigua, N. Y. /I^homas. Hastings, Utica, N. Y. Pollard &. Converse, Richmond, Va. ; Revi Jan^s Campbell, Beaufort, S. C. „ William Moclttie Reid, Charleston. S. C. Col. George Smith, Statesville, W. T. Rev. Bennet Roberts—Powal Me. Mr. Thos. R. Gold, an itinerant Gen tleman. . ;j J, ' A' ' ' CHEROKEE LAWS. ‘ 7^ : “ — . ' i T7r r. •^CONTINUED.] JVew Town Nov. 12, 1826. . •Resolved by the National Committee sand, Council, That mechanics of the •Several branches of trade, of good character and sobriety, and well skill ed in tlieir respective professions 8 *,'are hereby privileged and admitted to come into the Cherokee nation for the term of four or five years, under the request s superintendence of su<^ h res- jpectableindividuals as are interested in the improvement of the youths of this country, who shall obtain from the proper authority a permit for them. Such mechanics when brought into the nation, shall'be bound to set up a shop and carry on their trade regular ly, for the time permitted, and shall further be bound to take under their care for instruction, as many appren tices as practicable, and to learn them their respective crafts; and Be it further resohed, That the dis- •'triet courts be, and they are, hereby authorised to bind out such youths, with the consent and approbation of their parents or guardians, as may ply for admission as apprentices toa- hy of the aforesaid mechanics,? such mechanics entering into bond arid giv ing Such person or persons int roducing them into the nation as securities, that they will honestly and faithfully, in struct such appeotices as may be bound under them, in their trade; and the mechanics and securities are au thorised to call upon, and ,it shall be the duty of any public officer to arrest and return, any apprentice, that may. ruin away; and further,! the various mechanics introduced, under this lavy, shall be amenable to the authorities pud laws of this nation, for any offence . they may commit. ■By order of th« National Committee, JNO. ROSS, Picf’t N. Committer. M\JOR RIDGE, Speaker. PATH X KILLER. CHARLES HICKS. A. McCOY, Clerk of <hq N, Com. ,4 & BOUDINOTT, Clk. N. Count New Town, Nov. 12, 1825. Resolved by the National Committee and Council, That all persons who may be subpoenaed by the clerk of any of the courts, to appear before a- ny of the! courts as evidence in any case', and such person or persons re fusing to appear and bear evidence, and.ME?, she or they being unable to make any'reasonable or lawful excuse lor not.appearing, such person or per sons, upon conviction, shall pay a fine of twenty dollars for every such of fence, to be collected for the benefit of the person or persons non-suited, or cast in ^consequence of the want of that person or person’s testimony; and 'lie it further resolved, That such witnesses, attending agreeably to the summons, he, she or they, shall be en titled to - receive seventy-five cent s pel; day for each day’s attendance, in cluding the time for going and return ing. and to he levied off the person or persons against whom judgment may be issued.. These resolutions to be considered as amendments to'the iaw passed Nov. 12th, 1824; and to supercede the section embracing si milar cases. By order of the National Committee, JNO. ROSS, Pres’t. N. Com. MAJOR RIDGE; Speaker. Approved, "| • "4'_\ ' 'bis ,'v ’/ PATH X KILLER, ‘ ■ - . mark. ■ CHARLES R. HICKS. A. M’dOY, Clerk N. Com. E. BOUDINQTT, Clerk N. Council, New Town, Nov. 12, 1824. Resolved by the National Committee and Council, That one hundred town lots of one acre square, be laid off, on the Oostenallah river, commencing below the month of the creek, nearly opposite to the mouth of Cauna’usau- ga riyer.' The public square to em brace two acres of ground, which town shall be known arid called .Echo ta; there shall be a main street of si^ty feet and the other streets shall be fifty feet wide. ( ' V' * ,t ‘ * ■&B'e it further resolved, That the lots, when laid off, be sold to the highest bidder. The purchaser’s right shall merely be occupancy, and transfera ble only to lawful citizens of the Che rokee nation, and the proceeds arising from the sales of the lots shall be ap propriated for the benefit of the pub lic buildings in said town; and Be it further resolved, That three commissioners be appointed to super intend the laying off the aforesaid lots, marking and numbering: the same, and to act as chain-carriers, and a survey or be employed to run off the lots and streets according to the plan prescri bed. The lots to be.CQmmenced run ning off on tfie second Monday in Feb ruary next, : and all the ground' lying within the follow’ing bounds, not, em braced by the lots shall remain vacant as commons for the convenience qf the town; viz: beginning at the mouth of the creek, opposite the mouth of Cau- nausauga, & up said creek to the mouth of the dry branch, on w’hich George Hicks lives, up said branch to the point of the ridges, and thence in a circle round along said ridges, by the place occupied by Crying Wolf, thence to the river. ’ *■ ’ ' / By order of the N. Committee, JNO, ROSS, Pres’t N. Cora. - MAJOR RIDGE, Speaker. Vv*.,'\-4& •• .• hi* , Approved—PATH X KILLER. • mark. A, M'COY, Clerk. National Com. E. BOUDINOTT, Clk. N. Council a©e&<rdtur ©wy o^otfs. 1 ^ Dfc ATrtfBU.] , ‘ TT SSA, 12 O-LSX, 1825. «6it.yiy d^p .ftOLo-toey Drf ah.w©i, 3wo-a* Dzpo-iocy, o>eio--i, u<t Dfiieuh Aerpsoi- Wi»ecuJR vzpo-IoCE R*«h «w- y ohimjjD<r Jtstyov ssazr wwa- >5. n.tc y<! 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Gfntlemen:—On yesterday your letter in answer to a reply made by the undersigned to yotu s oi the 15tL u It. w r as received, and we must ex press our surprise and, regret, that every point by us laid down in that letter, is by you considered either er roneous, or not founded in fact: anu that even the statements made by General Gocke respecting what took place on his visit at New Ecbota iu July last, should be pointedly contra dicted. The General is riot versed in your language, and if he has not given the words made use of by Major Ridge, on his introduction to the Com mittee and Council, he avers he has given the words as explained to him by your interpreter. You have the candour to acknow ledge, that you .were informed by news paper reports, that Gen. Cocke and two others from North Carolina were appointed by the President, of the li nked States to hold Councils with the' Cherokee tribe of Indians, and that the session of yotir Council was con tinued for one' day, under an expecta tion that the General would make some 1 communication to you on the subject of his mission; and as he did not, you thought proper to direct your Clerk not to furnish him-with a list of the names of the Committee and Coun cil. You could not suppose, or ex pect, that the General, without the consent or approbation of the other Commissioners, would attempt to o- pen a negotiation with you, or explain the'objects his government was desi rous to effect by a treaty with the Nation: it would have been in direct opposition to the authority vested in him by his government, and disrespect ful to those associated with him in commission. * ■* Gen. Cocke also avers it is not a fact that the application made to Mr. McCoy was on the eve of his depart ure from Echota; but that it was made some days before, by his Secre tary Major Hyndes, and afterwards by himself; and not until the eve of his departure was the information re fused. In our former letter we assured you that ample means had been afforded us by the President to defray every ex pense, and that the supplies were provided. We use the term every expense with the design to include eve ry possible expense; nor should \ye hive hesitated to employ cooks, or to have paid the members for their ser vices fully as much as they receive for attending at New Echota in General Council, including the &c. &c. to which you refer in your letter of the 27th of September. You “assure us with profound sincerity,” that no thing is more remote from the inten tion of wish of the Representatives of the Nation, than to treat the public agents of the General Government with disrespect or contempt.” Com pare this assurance with your refusal to attend the call and invitation of that government; with the language of your letters to her Representative* and Agents. Recollect the treatment of Gov. McMinn, and the Georgia Commissioners, when they attended your Council at and near New Echo ta. You inform us that the Cherokee Nation for eight years past have per manently established their sent of Government at New Echota, where I every convenience for the accommo dation of strangers and the Members of Committee and Council, are p.o- vided, and conclude, sdould you meet at the place named k our invitation, you “would be exposed to the weath er as a congregated assemblage of rude people on a hunting expedition.” In this you are certainly mistaken. It is true there is no palace for the reception of a King or Emperor; but there are four taverns hi the vicinity of the Agency, and one at it, where all the Committee and Council can be well accommodated, and their expen ses paid by us. We take leave to call your atten tion to that part of our letter of the 23d*of September, where xve mention your establishment of an hr pendent government. No expression was in tended to find fault with your Consti tution, or deprive your Nation of the •enefit of social intercourse in civiliz ed life; On the contrary we expect erelong to see you incorporated with the American- family, enjoying the benefit arising from a well regulated government. Your construction of our remarks is not supported, when you seem to suppose ive are disposed to find fault with your government. It is useless longer to refrain from disclosing our knowledge of the object of your invitation to meet at New E- ( hota. We are correctly informed that Mr. John Ross has used all ofbia influence with the Nation to thwart the views of the United States and has been mainly instrumental in pre venting .heir meeting agreeably to our invitation of the 23d of August. You remark you have invited our attend ance, on the day appointed for the meeting of the approaching session of the General Council. Can yov i x- pect this subterfuge will avail, uhc» you know that yon have predetei min ed to reject everj proposition that we are authorised tc male to the Chei o- kee Nation? Why have you inter posed to prevent their meeting" us? Is it necessary to keep the Nation it g- norapee of their true interest? WTat objedt then could we expect to attain? It has also been coramunicatfcd to us, that Mr, Ross contemplates a trip to Washington City the Ensuing winter, and this failure to hold Councils with the Commissioners of the United States is to be the ostensible cause of that enterprise. Should our views be incorrect that the Cherokee Agency is the place proper to transact all business in w hich the United States are concerned with the Cherokee Nation, for what pur pose ard agents employed, and near five thousand dollars annually expend ed by the United States in defraying the expense of that Agency? The Secretary of War transacts all busi ness with j our Nation at that place- We "are not advised that your sfeat of Government is established for any oth er purpose, than a place to regulate your own internal affairs. In this o- pinion we are confident we shall be supported by the Department of Respectfully your ob’t. sefv’ts. JOHN COCKE, GEO. L. DAVIDSON, ALEXANDER GRAYv New Echota, Cherokee Nation, October 11th 1827. To Generals, John Cocke Geod L. DaviDson & Alex. Gray. ' Gentlemen:-—We acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th iast. We do not deem it essentially necessary to go over all tlfe different points on which you have written; therefore we must be brief. You W'ish us £o recollect the treat ment which Gov. McMinn and I he Georgia Commissioners received from our Council at this place, we assure you that it is Well recollected that they were treated with civility and politeness by the members of Com mittee and Council. And you also state that ‘*there is no palace for the reception of a King or Emperor at the Rattle Snake springs* •Jrr