Cherokee phoenix. (New Echota [Ga.]) 1828-1829, August 13, 1828, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texta ar. i <Jcfj3XJO*3 VOL, I. NEW ECIIOTA, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 13, 1828. NO. 21. LIFTED BY ELIAS BOUDiNOTT. PRINTED WEEKLY BY ISAAC H. IIAMI1IS, FOR XIIE CHEROKEE NATION. At $2 50 If paid in advance, $3 in six Months, or $ii50 if paid at the end of the year. To subscribers who can read only the. Cherokee language the price will be $2,00 in advance, or $2,50 io be paid within the year. Every subscription will bo considered as continued unless subscriber give notice to the contrary before the commencement of a new year. Any person procuring six subscribers, and becoming responsible for the payment, shall receive a seventh gratis. Advertisements will be inserted at seven ty-live cents per square for the first inser tion, and thirty-seven and a half cents for each continuance; longer ones in propor tion. Ct^pAU letters addressed to the Editor, post paid, will receive due attention. o w y v<)d us; fOALTotJ TA.JIT* V*V* JhtfBAa P^w.l. ne.TE .iuc5iwi<»y kt/l u^i j O’ojb.i *4bi>n, TCTZ TEiMOf’ I)O.I»3>o?I-mU. TC~X Vt»P IcBOA T15 DO.IrS.n'Kcti.I, KT m-U O-OJi:A K4iJSA. D.AxSoOEZ TB ytV 0-y^lT D,SP (F0.IBA I'-4of.I. Gwyz C 3 C«R .IIitSIiAoVy, D5-a C^eJBA P4(«)A b’S.IBiT 1 , TCTZ TF.JSOJ” DO* J»5oejv<n!A. KTJ17. D£P yiV Jjh O^IBJT «AR Dej^Pc*.!. AGENTS FOB THE CHEROKEE PHCENIX. The following persons are authorized to receive subscriptions and payments for the Cherokee Phccnix. Henry Hill, Esq. Treasurer of the A. B. C. F. M. Boston, Mass. George M. Tracy, Agent of the A. B. C. F. M. New York. Rev. A. D. Eddy, Canandaigua, N. Y. Thomas Hastings., Utica, N. Y. Pollard St Converse, Richmond, Ya. Rev. James Campbell, Beaufort, S. C. William Moultrie Reid, Charleston, 8. C. Col. George Smith, Statesville, W. T. William M. Combs, Nashville Ten. Rev. Bennet Roberts—Pifcval Me. Mr. Tuos. R. Gold, (avvitirterant Gen tleman.) i, SOCIAL SCENE AT THE SAND WICH ISLANDS. Near the close of 1827,; a social vi sit was held at Honoruru, by invita tion of Mrs. Bingham and Mrs. Rich- ards, at which, all the chiefs of the Jirst and second rank, except Bole; and bis wife, were present. fo this interesting group, says, Mr. Bingham, we should have been happy to hate introduced you, or any of our Christian friends, and I doubt not you would have been highly^ratitled with the interview. You would have seen the regent, once the haughty Kaahu- manu, now condescending, and kind, and grateful to the Christian teachers; with her two royal sisters, Kalakua and Pirn, all members of the church, Bearing the Christian names of Eliz abeth, Maria, and Lydia, and all endeavouring, as we believe, to copy the vitues of those Scripture charac ters, exerting a great influence over the people in favour of reformation, and rejoicing in the mercy of God in giving them the Gospel. You would seen have the pleasing youths, the king & his sister, rising rapidly to maturity, both possessing vivacity, and exhibit ing kindness towards us; the latter a member of our church, and a great comfort to the serious party, and the former as far advanced in the rudi ments of learning as most of our na tive teachers, and we believe disposed to aid decidedly the cause of the mis sion. You would have seen Kmkini; the governor of Hawaii, dignified, so ciable, and friendly, who has built a church at Kairua, which propably cost as many day’s work as any church in America, and who has for some time been diligently assisting in translating the Gospels, and in teaching a class in the rudiments of arithmetic. He has recently advised Kaahumanu to have laws established, written, and published. JYhtVie you would have met, a decided friend, of similar rank, and his wife Kapiolani, who perhaps is second to none in improved manners and Christian character. You would have seen the solid Iloapiri, of the same rank, the governor of Maui, re cently propounded to the church, the most fearless of all in resisting for eign encroachments, and foremost of all to suppress the vices which derives so much support from abroad. Anoth er of the old phalanx of Tamchamehah would have attracted your notice, Kaikioeua, now governor of Tauai, who seems to be desirous to bo in structed and to promote our cause; and his wife Keaiccamahi also, who, as you know, is a respected member of our church, admitted at Tauai. You Would have soon, ulso, tbo Inte. queen of Tauri, J)cborah Kapulc r and her husband Simeon Kdiu, whom we re gard as promising Christians. They recently presented their infant son to the Lord in baptism, whom they call ed r £iiummrii, out of respect to the characters of those two men. You would have seen Kekauhwhi, Kinau, and Kekauonohi, the three sur viving women who were, on our arri val, wives of Rchoriho. The former has, for live years, lived regularly with another husband, gives evidence of piety, and was, last Sabbath, pro pounded lor admission to our church. Kinau, who has recently married Kc- kuanaoa, who accompanied the king to England, now appears friendly, but not pious; her husband whom you would also have seen, is like her .'in those respects,, and is a commander of a small standing force of two or three hundred men, at this place. Kehau- onohi has, for about four years, lived single, appears to be -a cordial and decided friend'of the mission, and is now talked of as a suitable wife of the young king. There is - little disparity in their age and rank. : • Three interesting young chiefs. La- anui, Keliiahonui, Kanaina, of pleas ing manners, and hopeful piety, would also have engaged your attention a* mong the happy guests. Laanui, the husband of Piit\, or Lydia Nnmahana, by his correct' behaviour for more than live years, has given us much Satisfaction. ‘He is, you know, a member of our church. He is a good assistant in the work of translation: we consult him, and others of his stand- with more advantage, than guy of They have laid aside their vices and excesses, and their love of noise and war. You see every one decently dressed in our own style. Instead of the roaring /mm, you hear them join us in a song of Zion: “Kindred in Christ, for his dear sake, A heart}' welcome here receive,” fkc. Listen and you will not only hear the expressions of gratitude to us and to God for the privileges they now enjoy, but you will hear these old warriors lamenting that their former kings, their fathers, and their compan ions in arms had been slain in the Kit tle, or carried off by the hand of time, before the blessed Gospel of Christ had been proclaimed on these benight ed shores. Your heart would have glowed with elevent gratitude to God for the evidence, that while oui sim ple food was passing round the social circle for their present gratification, ijic minds of these children of pagans enjoyed a feast of belter things; and your thoughts', no doubt, like ours, would have glanced at a happier meeting of the friends of God in the world of glory. When our thanks were returned at the close of our humble repast, though you might not have been familiar with the language, you would have lifted up your heart in thankfulness for what already ap peared as the ‘fruits of your efforts here, and for the prospect of still greater things than these. their labor, and doubting sometimes whether it is not wholly vain. Such living sacrifices, we think, are even more illustrious than the dying self- devotion of martyrs; for it ’requires more strength to sustain the heart in the weary trial of life, than in the short agony of death. Milton com plained with reason, that men were so earnest to celebrate their desYroyers, that they had left ‘the better fortitude of patience and heroic martyrdom un sung;’ but he was too far before his age for even his mighty voice to reach it; wc trust that the stern old prophet has found many a Heart in our times, t<j> reply to those indignant appeals, which found no answering chord in his own.—N. d. Review. tuns THE PHILANTHROPIST AND THE HERO IN CONTRAST. We think the wiser part of the world is growing weary of ifs the youths who have been instructed in our foreign schools. Keliiahonui, the son of Tauwuarii, you doubtless know is also a member of the church, and exerts, we hope a good influence. He travelled round Hawaii, a year ago, exhorting the peo ple to obey the word of God, and the voice of the chiefs. He has an over sight of several schools, and been em ployed considerably, and with success, in teaching. lie lives single, keeps a regular diary, and is foremost of his countrymen in the art of singing in our mode. Kanainci, the husband of Ke- kauluoho, often assists in conducting conference meetings, and is very desi rous to be admitted to the church.— Though we hope to admit him before a great while, yet we think some long er trial advisable. Joseph Lelchioku, the sprightly little son of Karnimoku, the late regent, and KamaneU, the young daughter of governor Kuakrini were also present. We might have invited nearly as large a number of o- thers of (lie third and fourth grade of chiefs, who exhibited similar marks of improvement, and who appear to be truly friendly to the cause of the Gos pel, and whose presence would have added to your pleasure, had we room and means and strength to accommo date so many at one time. But look, for a few moments, at the present group—twenty-one chiefs of the Sandwich Islands mingling in friendly, courteous, and Christian con versation with seven of the mission family, whom you have employed a- mong them. Contemplate their for mer and their present habits, their former and their present, hopes.— _ .. great men; or is at least growing more cor rect in its estimate of greatness.— For thousands of years it has paid its willing reverence to that class of inen, whose whole employment is to injuie and oppress the rest; now, it is begin ning to require a more intellectual su periority, Orators and authors are the heroes of the day; and the same hearty and enthusiastic applause fol lows exploits of the mind, which was once reserved for mill it ary success. The conflicts (hat really decide the destiny of nations, are fought in con gresses and parliaments; and the in terest of the strife is transferred to the fields where their fate is actually decided; as is abundantly proved by the profound .sensation of the whole :civilized world, at.the late Mr. Can ning; who, with a public character not so well titled to inspire enthusiasm as others that have been before him, ex cited interest immeasurably deeper, and fell more brilliantly in the moment of his bloodless victory, than Dundee at Killicankie, or Nelson at Trafalgar. We venture to hqjj.e that the time will conic, when usefulness the measure of greatness he sure of the applause of world has been singularly inattentive to its lights and welfare; it has inva riably misapplied that applause, which must be the inspiration & guideof com mon ambition. When it is once known that usefulness will secure its favour, it will be like the discovery of a new compass, for guiding a thousand ad ventures to an innocent and enviable fame. Men of higher principle, too, will be animated by the conviclioh that the world is on (heir side. We think that whether wc consider the difficulties encountered and sacrifices made, or the spirit and energy re quired to meet them, nothing is more noble, and reviving than examples of men, who, with prospects of wealth that lead to indolence and talents fitted for display, are yet able, through all the misleading opinions of the world, and tile flatteries of self-love, to dis cern, that man’s best interest and glo ry is to be serviceable to Lis fellow r - men; who can devote themselves to the great cause of human improve ment, not with momentary vigour, hut persevering resolution; not in its mere attractive parts, its pillars and capi tals, hut in the humbler places where the deep foundation is laid; conscious that they may never see the rciult of VERSATILITY OF THE FRENCH. Those who are fond of reconciling apparent contradictions in national character, may find amusement in at tempting to account for the singular fact, that the French, who are so re markable for .tjieii; constitutional vi vacity, and, we had almost said, levi ty ot character, slrould nevertheless have been unrivalled for nearly a cen tury, in almost every department of scientific research. That they should have taken precedence of other na tions in elegant literature, if such were the fact, would not he very sur prising; for we should .imagine we could discover a decided adaptation to such pursuits, in the prominent fea tures of their character. Bat . when wc sec tliem engaged w ith wonderful ardor and perseverance in those stu dies, which almost entirely exclude imagination and feeling, and demand for their successful prosecution, the severest efforts of reasoning and ab straction, we witness a phenomenon, of which we find ourselves unable to ' give a satisfactory explanation.. Of what discordant elements must the character of that people he form ed, who, within the short space of thirty years, have gone through a re solution so momentous, that it broke up all the strong foundations of socie ty, and yet, within the same time, have advanced physical science and pure mathematics to such;a height as they never attained before. We have seen them rise, with a fearful* unani mity, to hurl reason from the throne, (and trample truth in the dust., and then, before our terror and amazement have had time to subside, we have seen reason and truth reinstated among the 'same people, and worshipped w ith a devotion as fervent and enthusiastic, as ever was paid .to them before.— The very same individuals, who now, give up their days and nights to ab struse speculation, were once strenu- young heads: the flowers on the brink seem to offer themselves to our young hands; we are happy in hope, aiq] lve grasp eagerly at the beauties around us: but the stream hurries, on, and still our haj1.dp.3fQ empty. > “Our course,in youth and manhood is along a w ider and deeper flood, .and amid objects more striking and mag- | nilicent. We pre animated by the moving picture of enjoyment and in dustry which passes before us; we are excited by some short lived suc cess, or depressed and rendered mis erable by equally short-lived disqp- . pointment. But our energy and our dependence arc both in vain. The stream bears us on, and our joys and •/ our griefs are alike left behind us, wc may be shipwrecked bu^.yye can not, anchor; our voyage may be hasten ed but it cannot be delayed; whetii- • er rough or smooth, the river. hastens towards its home, till the roaring of the ocean is in our ears, and the toss ing of his waves is beneath our knell, and the lands lessen from our eyes and ■ the floods arc-lifted up around.us, and- flic earth loses sight of us, and we ta^e our last leave of earth and its inhabitants, and of our further voyage there is no witness,- but the Infinite and Eternal. “And do wc still take so much anx* ious thought for the future days, when the days which, are gpne by have so strangely and.uniformly deceived us? Can we stijl so set our hearts on the fcrealures of God, w hen ive find by sad experience, that the Creator only is permanent? Or shall we not rath er lay. aside every weight and every sin which docs-most easily beset us, and think cf ourselves henceforth as wayfaring persons only who have no abiding inheritance hut in the hope of a better world, and to whom even that world would be .worse -thanihope- Jess, if it were not for our Lord Jesus .Christ, and the interest which we have obtained in his mercies.” ss, if it is not i ?, us a ? t0 !' s in t !|f l storm y scenc f cf ,he •ii t l t j Revolution. 1 here-was one,* espe- V ‘ .ii. daily, whose life exhibited a scarce ly credible contrast. During that dis astrous period, so expressly denomin ated the Reign of Terror, his mind, then all for action, caught to the full mad phrenzy of those around him; anil he engaged heart and hand, in the infernal business of the time. But the moment that the moral hurricane was over, this same wonderful man, sitting down as it were amidst the ve ry ruins he had helped to create, and apparently forgetting all that had pass ed, gave up his whole mind to the in vestigation of the celestial motions.— In these serene anil sublime contem plations, he w'as chiefly occupied for the last twenty years of his life; and next to Newton, Philosophy now hails him as her brightest name. *V. d. Renew. •A. M. LPgeredre. THE STREAM OF LIFE. The following; bountiful passage is from- a sermon preached by Bishop Heber, to his parishioner’s a short time before his de parture for India, in 1823. “Life boars us on like the stream of a mighty river. Our boat, at first glides down the narrow channel,.thro’ the playful murmurings of the brook and the winding of its grassy hostler. Trees shed their blossoms over our There is a religion w hich is too sin cere for hypocrisy, but^oo transient to be profitable; top superficial lo : reach the heart, too unproductive to proceed from it. R is slight, but not false. It has discernment enough to distinguish sin, but not firmness e-‘ nough to oppose it; compunction suf ficient to soften the heart, but not vi gour sufficient to reform it. It la ments when it docs w rong, and.per forms all the functions of repentance of sin except forsaking it. It’hus ev ery thing of devotion except the sta bility, and gives every thing to religion except the heart. This is a religion of times, events, and circumstances** it is brought into play by accidents, and dwindles away with the occasion which called it out. Festivals and fasts which occur but seldom, .are much observed, and it is to be feared because they occur but seldom; while the great festival which conics every week, comes too often to be so re spectfully treated. The piety of these people conus out much in sick ness, bj.it is apt to retreat again as re covery approaches. If they die, thev are placed by their admirers in the Saint’s Calendar; if they recover, they go back into the world they had re nounced, and agaim suspend their a- mendment as ojten. its death suspends his blow.— Hannah dloore. Instead then of going in search-of great mortifications, as a certain class of pious w riters recommend, let us cheerfully bear and diligently improve these inferior trials which God pre pares for us. Submission to a cross vvlue.h he inflicts, to a disappointment Which he sends, to a contradiction of our self-love,, which ho appoints, is a far better exercise,, than great pen ances of-otfr owu choosing. " Perpetu al conquests over impatience, ill temper, and self-wilL .indicate a bet ter spirit than any sulf-imposed morti fications. Wc may t raverse oceans, and scale mountains on uncommanded pilgrimages, without pleasing God; wc may please him without any fur.

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