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ty m owy / * *. . p CHEHOKIX ’i-_ VOL. I. SPITED BY ELIAS BOUDINOTT. ■PRINTED WEEKLY BY ISAAC H. HARRIS, for TMi CHEROKEE NATION. At #2 50 if paid in advance, $3 in six lonths, or $$ 50 if paid at the end of the 'ear. *• To subscribers who can read only the llierokee language the price will be #2,00 advance, or #2,50 to be paid within the car. Every subscription will be considered as continued unless subscribers give notice to ' ie contrary before the commencement of a ew year. Any person procuring six subscribers, md becoming responsible for the payment, lhall receive a seventh gratis. Advertisements will be inserted at seven- -five cents per square for the first inser- ion, and thirty-seven and a half cents for ach continuance; longer ones in proport ion. icy All letters addressed to the Editor, ost paid, will receive due attention.' Jtvy IlfJ9V0*-A *^D fOAbXoSU TAJ»r» Jh(fBA.X ti. BQjiE kta d^p vo-tilt TGPZ TE.SSO-fl’’ D0J^>ot)Pi»^- ’GTZ VOP Ti&O-A TB KT O’eJBJC P-4o6-l. DS\I»S<>6EZ TB yw oy/iT d$p cpejp-i P4-»a. ©wyz (POK JHi<l5IiJlo5y, WF*V* D?4 sejBJi i-4<»Jt fsaBir, tctz tejcHmu do* KT./1Z Dvpp yw «h O’S.IB-r jaR D0Jr5o6I*'(»-t. ■jrMW* BCHOTA, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1828. NO. 28. AGENTS FOR THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX. The following p crsons are authorized to receive subscriptions and payments for the Cherokee Phoenix. Henry Hill, Esq. Treasurer of the A. B. C. F. M. Boston, Mass. George M. Tracy, Agent ofthe A. B. C^F. M. New York. Her. A. D. Eddy, Canandaigua, N. Y. Thomas Hastings, Utica, N. Y. Pollard &, Converse, Richmond, Va. Rev. James Campbell, Beaufort, S. C. William Moultrie Reid, Charleston, S. C. Col. George Smith, Statesville, W, T. William M. Combs, Nashville Ten. Rev. Bennet Roberts—Powal Me. Mr. Thos, R. Gold, (an itinerant Gen tleman.) Jeremiah Austil, Mobile Ala. i [CONTINUED.] WASHINGTON AND THE CHERO- KEES. Wednesday, January 9th 1792. The Secretary of War, addressed ,he Chiefs and Warriors ofthe Chero- tee Nation, as follows: Brothers—l am heartily glad that ou have disburdened your hearts in four own way; because I am sure, when the red people see the hearts of the Great Chief, General Washing- top, and .the Congress; that we .shall become as one people, each living in »eace and safety with our families.. You have mentioned some uneasi- ass about the treaty with Governor lount; but the President, and the enate of the United States, who are s Council, on this business, believ- ^ that this treaty was a good and sat- actory treaty, as well for the red white people, .have confirmed it— inted it as you here see, and it has come the law of the land; and if ainy bad white people sliould encroach .upon your ground, or do any thing con trary to that treaty, they would be im mediately punished. It is therefore for your good that the treaty should be punctually com plied with in all its parts, as well by you, v as by us. Perhaps you may not dearly understand some part of the jtreaty; if so, speak, for we wish to remove all possible causes of differ ence and obstacles to our becoming one people. Bloody fellow, in reply. What you have said : s true and just; and you shall now hear all I have to say, so that nothing may hereafter lie heavy upon the hearts either of the red or white people. I have heard you talk with satisfac tion, but I ami afraid every thing has not been fully explained Whin the trea ty ground. I have considered well on our business and shall unfold all tef you. We aTe now together upon import ant business to us—I wish therefore to see the line Governor Blount has mentioned to you. [A Map was accordingly produced, with the lines mentioned thereon, to which no material objection was made, as it was stated that the lines were to be run by Commissioners/rora each side.] Bloody fellow. At the time of the treaty we objected to giving up so much land; but for the sake of peace and quietness we did it. But we ob ject to the little money given for so much land. We request therefore that something further may be done in the matter, so that all our people may be quiet in their minds. Instead of one thousand dollars a year for our lands, give us as much more, that is, fifteen hundred dollars a year, and we shall be perfectly sat isfied. If this could be obtained for us— we do not require it in, money, but in goods bought in Philadelphia where they are cheapest; and to be sent to General Pickens, by the way of Charleston. We should be happy that our busi ness could Ije soon finished, that we might take one years goods with us— that yon might send a man with us, so that you may learn the satisfaction which we shall spread on our return. The treaty mentions, ploughs, hoes, cattle and other things for a farm, this Js what, we want; game is going fast away froift among us. We must plant corn and .raise cattle, and we desire you to assist us. If these things could be sent lis the next season, it would be of great service to us. We wish you to attend to this point. In former times we bought of the tra ders goods cheap, we could then clothe our .women and children, but now game is scarce and goods dear, we cannot live comfortably. We desire the United States to regulate this mat ter I shall nojv speak upon a point of great importance, the ridge which di vides the waters of Little River from the Tennessee, is the boundary fixed by the treaty. But the white people are already over it,, and their numbers have increased since the treaty. Re move these back, or our people will not be quiet. We speak strongly on this point. We came to Philadelphia with Our eyes full of tears: but since we have seen General Washington, and heard him speak, through you, our tears are wiped away, and we rejoice fn the prospect of our future welfare, under the protection of Congress. Governor Blount spoke very much to us, that a trading house should be established at Bear Creek below the Muscle Shoals on the Tefchessee.— We could not consent to this—after we returned home, we talked among ourselves on this matter, and it would be veTy disagreeable to our Nation.— But we have heard that this matter is still going on. We desire that the man you send with us should prevent this settlement at the Muscle Shoals- - I have now explained all I had to say, and hid nothing from you. I now speak of the private affairs of our party, who are'now here, you see that being upon the business of our Nation, We could not go a hunting and therefore our families will bd unclad, unless you will do it, and we hope you will. ' a CHARACTER OF WASHING TON BY JEFFERSON. Extract of a letter from Jefferson to Dr. W. Jones. His mind was great and powerful, Yvithout being of the very first order, his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of Newton, Bacon, or Locke; & as far as he jsaw no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in op eration being little aided by invention or imaginationi but sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his of ficers, of the advantage he derived from counsels of war, where, hearing all suggestions he selected whatever was best, and certainly no General ev er planned his battles more judicious ly. But, if deranged during the course of the action, if any member of his plan was dislocated by sudden circum stances, he was slow in re-adjustment. The consequence was, thatle often failed in the field, and rarely against an enemy in station, as at Boston and York. He was incapable of fear, meet 1 * ing personal dangers with the calm est unconcern. Perhaps the struigest feature in his character, was prudence never acting until every circumstaice every • consideration was maturely weighed; refraining if he saiv a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have e\ r er known, no motives of inter est or consanguity, of friendship or ha tred. being able to bias his decision.— He was indeed, in every sense ofthe word, a wise, a good, and a great man. His temper was naturally irritable and high toned; but reflection and res olution had obtained a firm and habit ual ascendency over it. If ever, how ever, it broke its bounds he was most tremendous in his wrath. In his ex penses, he was honorable but exact; liberal in contributions to whatever promised utility; but frowning and un yielding on all visionary projects and all unworthy calls on his charity.— His heart was not warm in its affec tions; but he exactly calculated every man’s value, and gave him a Solid es teem proportioned to it. His person, you know was fine, his stature exact ly lvhat one would wish, his deport ment easy, erect, and noble; the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback. Although, in the circle of his friends, where he might be unre served with safety, he took a free share in conversation, his colloquial talents, were not above mediocrity, possessing neither copiousness of i- deas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short and' embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in a correct style. This he had ac quired by a conversation with the world: for his education was merely reading, writing, and common arithme tic, to which he added surveying at a later day. His time was employed inaction, chiefly, reading little, and that only in Agriculture and English History. His correspondence became necessarily’ extensive, and, with journalizing his agricultural proceed ings, occupied most of his leisure hours within doors. On the whole, his character was, in ks mass perfect, in nothing bad, in few points indiffer ent; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in'the same constel lation with whatever worthies have merited from man and everlasting re membrance. For this was the singu lar destiny and merit of leading the armies of his country successfully through an arduous war, for the estab lishment of independence, of conduct ing its councils through the birth of a government, new in its forms and prin ciples, until it had settled down in a quiet and. orderly train, and of scrupu lously obeying the laws through the whole of his career, civil and milita ry, of which the history of the world furnishes no other example. How, then, can it be .perilous for you to take such a man on your shoulders?— I am satisfied the great body of Re publicans think of him as I do. We were indeed dissatisfied with him on his ratification of the British Treaty; but this was short lived. We knew his honesty, the wiles with which he was encouraged, and that age had al ready began to relax the firmness of his purposes; and I am convinced he is more deeply seated in the love and gratitude of the republicans, than in the Pharisaical homage of the Feder al Monarchists. For he was no mon archist from preference of his judg ment. The soundness of that* gave him correct views of the rights of man, and his severe justice devoted him to them. He has often declared to me that he considered our new con stitution as an experiment, on the practicability of Republican Govern ment, and with what dose of liberty man can be trusted for his own good; that he was determined the experi ment should have a fair trial, and would lose the last drop of blood in support of it. And these he repeat ed to me oftener, and more pointedly, because he knew my suspicions of Col Hamilton’s views and probably had heard the declarations, which I had heard, to wit—“that the British Con stitution, with its unequal representa tion, corruption, and other existing a- buses, was the most perfect Govern ment which had ever been established an earth, and that a reformation of hese abuses would make it impracti- table government.” I do believe that Gen. Washington h\d not a firm confidence in the dura- blityof.our government. He was ttturally distrustful of men, and in clined to gloomy apprehensions; and I v'as ever persuaded that a belief that tte must at length end in something like a British Constitution had some weight in his adoption of the ceremo nies of levees, birth days, pompous meetings with Congress, and other forms of the same character cal culated to prepare us gradually for a change which he believed possible, so let it come on with as little shock as might be to the public mind. These are my opinions of Gen. Washington, Yvhichl would vouch at the judgment seat of God, having been formed on an acquaintance of 30 years. I served Yvith him in the Virginia Legislature from 1769 to the Revolutionary war, and again a short time in Cougress, until he left us to take command of the army. During the war and after it, we corresponded occasionally, and in the four years of my continuance in the office of Secretary of State, our intercourse was daily, confidential and cordial. After I retired from that office, great and malignant pains were taken by oup Federal monarchists, and not entirely without effect, to make him viety me as *a theorist, holding French principles of government, which would lead infallibly to licen tiousness and anarchy. And to this he listened the more easily; from my own disapprobation of the British treaty. I never saiv him aftenvards, or these malignant insinuations would have been dissipated, before his just judg ment, as mists before the sun. 1 felt, on his death, with my countrymen, that “verily a great man hath fallen this day in Israel.” More time and recollection would enable me to add many other traits of his character; but why add them to you who know them’well? and I can not justify myself to a longer deten tion of your paper. Vale, propri- aque toum, me esse tibi persuadeas. TH. JEFFERSON. From Flint’s Western Review. THE YANKEE. A Yankee is a Yankee over the globe; and you might knotv him, if you met him, on the “mountains of the moon,” in five minutes by his nation ality. We love, and honor him for it, wherever it is not caried to a blinding prejudice. He remembers his school house, the peculiar modes of discipline in which he was reared, the place where he played, skaited, and bathed in his blithe morning of life, where are the ashes of his forefathers, and where himself was baptised and mar ried. Wherever he “trades and traf fics” on distant seas, rivers, or moun tains, he will only forget his native ac cent, and his natal spot, when his right hand forgets that cunning, for ivhich he has such an undeserved celebrity. THE SOUTHERNER. The Southerner, too, is such over the whole globe. You may know him such by his olive, or brown complex ion, on which the sun lias looked in his wrath. You may. see in his counte nance the tinge of billious impress, and that he has inhaled miasma, and breathed morning and evening fogs.— You may note in his peculiar gait, and his erect and lofty port, that he has compared himself with an inferior race of human beings, as they have walked before him to their daily task. His generous disregard of expense and e- conomy as he travels, his spirit, ar dent and yet generous, “sudden and quick in quarrel,” his proud defer ence of his own country, his peculiar dialect, his reckless disregard of con sequences, smd a variety of mixed traits, seen in a moment and yet diffi cult to describe, nark him even to an unobservant eye, as a Southerner in the streets of New York. THE WESTERN PEOPLE. We in the West, have the reputa tion, too, of nationality. But we hav r e no claims to it; and none of the reali ty, or advantage of it. Old Kentucky and Tennessee used to have good de grees of it. But the talented and dis tinguished men of these states, know that gougbing is no longer in fashion a- mong the vulgar, seemed to have com menced a fratricide project to throtv each other to the earth, and rob each other of their honest fame and well- earned acquisitions. If there be any nationality remaining among us, it seems to have found its final sanctua ry among boatmen and men of hunting shirts. We are too intently engaged in decaying and undermining each oth er, to have community of interest, feeling, or purpose. WESTERN ODDITY. At another time, we will endeavor to introduce to the reader the great est oddity in literature, with which ive have ever met, who lately crossed our path. If we could convey to the public the impression, which he gave us, it would allow', that nothing strange or unaccountable, could be met with afterwards. We allude to a person, to whom we were lately introduced by the name of Ashcraft. He was born in England, trained and reared on the Muskingum, and had received, he states, just six week’s school instruc tion, such as he there found, in the course of his life. He calculated an eclipse without ever having seen an example of the mode. He writes Y'erses, hot very correct, but some of them of great and thrilling power.— He is all nerve, and Kindles to tears while reciting his own verses. He often meets with beauties on the wes tern tvaters, in comparison of lvhom Laura as painted by Petraeh, was but a common lady. His most exalted flame died the lady of another hus band, though he ineffectually sued for her hand. One of his flames, to whom he was wedded, lives like lady Byron, in seperatc establishment. He seem ed entirely amiable, and though talent ed, as simple os a child, and deeply imbued with religious feeling. He had practised law in a remote village of Indiana—had been, as he said, eve ry where as harmless,-and as timid as a cricket, and yet he added, he knew not why, he was very unpopular, al ways in hot water, and could not make enough of the laiv to pay his board!— Yet this man, we suspect, under dif ferent circumstances, might have been an American Robert Burns.' WESTERN LITERATURE. They of the Atlantic country, when they speak of us, curl the scornful lip, as though we Yvere backwood’s ignor amuses. We haY r e among us no incon siderable number of the gifted and in telligent from Europe, and every part of the United States. Ardent, aspir ing and scheming spirits come here.— The quiet and satisfied stay where they were born. In any given circle in our towns and villages, where we may imagine ourselves addressing far mers, planters, merchants, it is not unlikely, that among the listners may be men of distinguished talents and literary fame from foreign countrier.