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FOR THE CHEROKEE PJKENIX.
Mr. Editor:—In the debate in
Congress the 20th March on the res
olution of Mr. Woods of Ohio, I see
the remarks of Mr. Mitchell of Ten
nessee; and in opposing the resolution,
he has been pleased to notice and
bring into the debate the “abject and
destitute condition” of the Cherokee
Indians, as a fit weapon to bear down
all opposition that might be in his
way. But in this he has failed. If
however his pitiful description of my
country can be of any service in his
hands to illustrate his argument, he is
more than welcome to it. But he
has certainly exaggerated the miseiies
that we are compelled to suffer at
the instance of our “chiefs and Na
bobs.” Mr. M. is “ unfortunately
our neighbour,” and is guilty of a two
fold crime, because he professes to
have o'correct knowledge of our con
dition, when indeed, from reading his
speech, I must believe that he labours
under a “total ignorance of the true
state of facts,” in regard to the Che
rokee Indians. Whereas, if he had
known correctly our condition, he cer
tainly could not have so palpably mis
represented our situation. But per
haps he is “acting from excitement,
and from a misconception of facts,”—
Where are the facts that have been
so strangely perverted and miscon
strued? lias not Mr. M. himself,
“Nabob” like,endeavoured to shut ev
ery avenue of common sense, that he
might create and diffuse “wrong im
pressions” on the public mind in rela
tion to this nation? And has he not
assumed false positions, the “only ten
dency” of which “must be to excite
unnecessary debate, to terminate at
last in odium and disgust” and that up
on his own head? He cannot expect
any thing else, and it is a source of
real regret to “hear and read such
extravagant statements,” made in the
house of Representatives, and that by
one who professes to have a correct
knowledge of the whole subject. But
upon reading his speech “carefully,”
we see upon the very face of it nothing
but evidence of a “total ignorance of
the true state of facts.”
Mr. M. says, in respect to particu
lar tribes, some gentlemen may be
under the impression that they are
rising to the “highest point of moral
and intellectual improvement.” “I
am aware (says he) that some gentle
men here very honestly entertain such
an opinion with respect to the Chero-
kees.” As to the “ moral and intel
lectual improvement” of the Cherokee
Indians, it is but just to say that they
are far from the “ highest point of
moral and intellectual improvement,”
and there are few nations who can
claim these high sounding epithets;
and we do not wish to make any such
impression on any nation or individual.
But we certainly have a claim on Mr.
M’s candour, and to have said the
least of us as a nation would have
been that the Cherokee Indians were
rapidly progressing in the arts and
sciences, and ere long they would oc
cupy an important station among the
nations of the earth.* “I know (says
he) the chiefs personally and am ac-
miainted with the condition of the
Tribe.” ThiB statement, as io the
former part, may be true; but as to
his acquaintance with our condition as
a nation, 1 must be permitted still to
believe that belabours under a “total
ignorance of the true state of facts.”
“ While {he chiefs (says he) are Na
bobs, living luxuriously, and\exercising
despotic liower, the mass ofvhe nation
are in the most abject and ^destitute
condition.!* Now I would Vk Mr.
Mitchell f his information is no^found-
ed on “a ki«conception of faciy.”—
Where did he ever see a “ chief dr a
Nabob living luxuriously” in the Che
rokee nation, and exercising and ac-
knowleding no law but that of his own
will; and dealing away the lives of
the “mass” just as Mr. M. does his
words under a “misconception of
facts?” The truth is that we only
have a principal and assistant chief,
nor do we feel or acknowledge any
“Nabob” or “despotic power” in our
government. “And in saying this 1
intend no reflection” on the veracity
of Mr. Mitchell. Our “Chiefs” or
“Nabobs” no more dare attempt to
exercise “despotic power” over the
“destitute mass,” than one of the
lowest grade of Russian “boors” dare
insult his Emperor. Our chiefs ex
ercise no authority but what is grant
ed by law, and if Mr. M. wishes to
store his mind with “correct informa
tion” about our nation, I would advise
him to take a ride to the interior of it,
and seek an interview with our
“Chiefs” oi “Nabobs,” I think that he
would “find” them “as frank and as
communicative as he could desire,”
by doing so he would no longer per
haps labout under that “ ignorance,”
which he s« much attributes to other
gentlemen. Mr. M. is certainly at
tempting to sport with the good sense
of the house of which he has the hon
or to be a member,—and whenever
he addresses the house, they cannot
but expect some specimen of his in
genuity in wiping away the foul stain
of “misconception” from the house
“Yes more wretched and abject (says
he) than the lowest hordes of Russi
an boors.” In this delineation of hor
rid wretchedness, which he wishes to
convey as applicable to the Chero-
kces, 1 can but say that I would not
exchange my “abject and destitute
condition,” for his “high point of mor
al and intellectual improvement.'’—
He may be an excellent model, but I
for one do not envy his talents or his
situation, and no doubt if the recom
mendations of Mr. M. were carried
into effect, we would sooner or later
experience the slavish state of the
Russian “boors” in all its horrors, and
“abject” wretchedness, and ere long
be driven in “hordes” to the wilds of
the Mississippi. And so long as Mr
M. “ continues” to labor under such
“ignorance,” “the practical effect
of which goes only to make false im
pression through the country,” it is to
be feared that the condition of the In
dians will never be bettered.
I always thought that it was better
to advance the truth at all times, no
matter how desperate the cause
upon which we plead; and if Mr
Mitchell had taken truth for his guide
he would have saved himself from
much “odium and disgust.” He does
not wish to oppress us, no, not he
good “neighbour” likj, but would ra
ther come forward and “adopt some
plan which would improve” our “con
dition instead of riveting our chains
and suffering a few chiefs and head
men to trample down the rest into the
dust.” Mr. Mitchell need not trou
ble himself about this, because if the
Indians saw cause to tie up every day
one of the “mass” and “give him
hundred lashes, it is only a matter in
which the Indians alone are concern
ed,” and Mr. M. “for one” has
business to interfere.”
A bad excuse is better than none
and I suppose that his condescending
friendship to unrivet our “chains and
improve? our conditions,” is only to oh
tain our lands; but he never can make
us believe that we are so “abject and
destitute” as to be unworthy to re
main and ocenpy our present homes
Yes, as long as the Cherokees remain
jnst and peaceable in their intercourse
with their “unfortunate” “neighbors”
and retain a true sense of the value of
their situation, so long will they con
tinue to occupy the lands of their fore
fathers; hut as soon as they become
over burdened with “moral and intel
lectual improvement,” so as to be
“under a total ignorance of the true
state of facts,” it is then to be feared
that their dissolution is nigh, and that
they will experience the “practical
effects” of Mr. Mitchell’s recommen
dation. I fear that Mr. M> has ex
perionced the debilitating effect* of
disease, for I think the powers of his
intellect have grown weaker, and that
his conceptive powers are about to
take their flight. I hope the “con
duct” of Mr. M. “proceeds from
right motives and good feelings.”—
But I say that he is “ignorant of the
true state of facts,” and in saying this
’ intend no reflection. I do not charge
this ignorance as a reproach, it is
mere absence of correct information,
‘and this” I am sure “implies no re
flection on the powers of Mr. M’s
mind, or the feeling of his heart.”—
I am persuaded his conduct origin
ates from a good heart.” And as Mr.
M. is a gentleman of finq “taste” and
feels a delicacy “to attempt to draw
dark picture, even of a savage,” I
would conclude that he did not in
tend his remarks as applicable to the
Cherokees, and upon the whole, in all
probability, he is not serious in his
manner of communicating his ideas.
conclude by wishing him a speedy
reformation; for this is not the first
time, he has been charged with incon
sistency about our situation, and I am
induced to believe that the remarks
of are from Alpha to Ome
ga entirely destitute of any foundation
. I hope he will excuse
me for quoting so much of his lan
guage, but I am so much under the
impression that he was “acting from
excitement,” and that too under the
influence of “ignorance,” that I could
not forbear to take his own weapon
to lash him in return. He certainly
deserves severe handling, but being of
the opinion that it is more becoming
to spare my “ unfortunate neighbor”
than to triumph over his ruin, think
ing, too, that his conscience is suffi
ciently mortified, and that it will
hereafter act as a silent monitor to
guide him in the path of rectitude,
I am
One of “the mass.”
* Provided however, the strong arm of
the United States protect us in our rights,
and not disorganize us by recommending
projects of emigration, when it is contrary
to our wish. We do not expect ever to be
a great nation, in the common sense of the
word, for our population is too trifling to
entitle us to that appellation. We may,
nevertheless, by our improvement in the
various departments of fife, gain the res
pect and esteem of other nations. Or,
should we blended with th United States,
(which perhaps may be the case,) we shall
enjoy the privileges of her citizens, and
receive in common, the regard due to her
from abroad. • Edi
FOR THE CHEROKEE PHCENIX.
t am informed by your eleventh
number that marshal has appeared a-
gain, in support of his former position,
that the council and their treasurer
did not abandon their principles
The reluctance with which he appears
to be so prudently possest in the on
set of his canto, in coming before the
public, a second time, I am sorry
has had so small an influence on the
manner in which he has shivered his
lance against the late President of the
committee. If marshal’s known pru
dence had been endangered, by my
accidental introduction of his name to
the public, he would then had a hap
py right to have maintained any ques
tions without his visible perplexity
If marshal had been actuated by an
honorable zeal in the efforts made
for the restoration of bis principles to
their radical situation, I would have
remained silent, to the adequacy of
my last piece to have given me all the
support due my position. The mild
ness with which lie has endeavored to
canvass the questions, compared with
his former storm, should be highly
creditable for entering upon the du
ties of his political hyperbole in a propi
tious temper, to trace and establish
the charter line to the great touch
stone which he has so acutely de
tected to be removing, but the mate
rials which he has employed in the
performance of that work, is better
adapted to the productions of mistakes
and fruitless arguments, than to pro
duce conviction of the correctness of
his cause. As he has introduced some
certainly unfounded charges against
the late President in not availing an
opportunity to preserve the principles
alledged to be violated I have a right
to appear again. Permit me then to
respond particularly to some of his
prominent flounces, and other opin
ions, to which f cannot subscribe,
do contend that principles can be a
bandoned when they exist in theory
When they become in this situation
they commence the government of the
individual posseser in his civil pro
ceedure. For what purposes are
principles imbibed? I presume for
the express object of substituting such
for his future guide, in the usage of
which, all others to the contrary,
should be subsequently obsolete. And
then to decline to carry into effect the
substituted principles, and resume
those ones into practice, antecedently
decided unfit, i fearlessly pronounce
such a course a departure from prin
ciple. An instance may be found in
the United States when persons high
in the road to preferment have been
censured for abandoning principles; if
I am correctly informed, transpired
where they existed in theory alone.—*
For when principles are in lawful exis
tence, &. a collision arise against them,
or an appointment of an officer is made
against the standard that is to govern^
it is then a violation or an unconstitu
tional appointment. These princi
ples which I consider revolutionized
had their origin in a convehtion after '
every member was duly qualified be-- -
fore the mighty Omuiscient. After
discovering inveterate practices exist
ing of one person holding a plurality of
offices to be unadvisable, and the cus
tom should be discontinued, and con
tinue an extravagant surrender of ma
ny offices to one person, is a circum
stance calculated to prove, a disposi
tion, reluctant to conform to the pro
claimed principles. When there was
existing every inducement to bring
into exemplary use, their solemly a-
dopted principles. It undoubtedly
was easier for the council and their
treasurer to have brought into prac
tice their principles which then exist
ed in proper form, than recede to the
extreme in the use of the old customs
existing almost in an indescribable
confused mass, for I know there was
nothing that would arrest them from
such a course of consistency. The
aspirations of marshal to know to what
extent the President of the commit
tee, exerted his patriotic influence as
preventative, to the abuse of my fa
vorite principles, can be informed to
his satisfaction if it be in the bounds
of possibility to place him in that de
sirable condition. As to the quantum
of patriotism that he might have been
possest at the time will be a little
difficult to define. But it will suf
fice if it can be shewn that he bad at
least as much as would have been a *
contravention to the judge’s election.
When this distinguished individual was
announced a candidate for the treasu
ry, the President called the attention
of the Committee to the case, and ♦ob
served to them that the judge had
come out a candidate for the treasu
ry Deptartment, and holding other of
fices as he did appeared to him a
course exceptionable, besides the con
stitution was about to take its force
from that council appeared to him to
be setting aside principles. The com
mittee did not examine the question,
because no doubt they saw through
their imagination that New Echota
was the unsafest place for the treasu
ry. What more could the president
have done with propriety in support of
principle than he did, I wish also to
be informed. He was not asleep on the
watch tower during the contest, but
was seated on an old pine bench in
the chamber of the National Commit
tee. Likewise I am disposed to dissent
from the probability that the Presi
dent’s office was in analogy to the judg
e’s. This offer happened in tile fatter
part of the session. The President
had to serve but a few days longer,
and then his office was legally out of
existence. His offer was in anticipa
tion of taking the department when
the council ad journed, which was close
at hand, and which will be ponfirmed
from the circumstance that the trea
surer had of necessity to serve until
the rise of Council. Admitting he had
been elected treasurer, he would have
exereijed the duties of but one office,
the former treasurer could not surren
der the treasury until "his settlement
with the Commissioners had closed,
which lasted to the eve of the s ession,
this act appears to be plainly accept
ing an office after another one had le
gally ceased. Common capacity will
fall short of understanding this case td
be a resemblance of the Judg’s ex
ercising the duties of four different of
fices, and the keenest discrimination
in the investigation of this subject,
would arrive at its weakness to step
on the side of marshal’s scale of justice
to make a judicious decision.
Another Ponderous charge again, a-
gainst the late President, Appears to a-
rise from his local situation at N Echo
ta as the principle by which he has as
pired to seek for the treasury De
partment, but if magnanimity was the
only tribunal requisite to pronounce
bis offer, a public condemnation in or
der to benefit his position 1 , I hope the
same cannot view less culpable the la»>
