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CHEROKEE
PHflENIX.
VOIi. I.
HEW ECHOTA, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 10, 1828,
NO. 4
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positive act of injustice—and yet we
(inti men not only of quiet conscience
under such circumstances, but offend
ed if asked to pay a debt—consider
themselves ill used, and, in a passion
declare they will not pay until com
pelled. I have seen and wondered at
such conduct—for I was reared among
commercial men, before the mania of
speculation broke out, when a failure
in an engagement to-day—nay, an hour,
was dishonor.
One of my rich neighbors who keeps
his coach, his horses and hounds, and
entertains company all the year round,
never pays a debt except through the
medium of the sherifl. 1 happen to
know two of Ins creditors-;—it will be
sufficient to single out two. One his
overseer—the other a female weaver.
These poor people have worked for
him for years without compensation,
and with but little chance of any.—
And yet no one ventures to say he is
dishonest.
I lately attended a vendue where
goods and chattels were going ofl un
der execution. Every one was pity
ing the debtor whose property was thus
under sacrifice; but not a man sympa
thized wit h the creditors, some of whom
had been almost starving for years for
the want of their dues, withheld by
this unjust and unfeeling man. I felt
indignant, and only regretted that the
law's delay had been so great. . Why
pity h:m? He had put it off as long
as possible. The law, though slow,
had at length overtaken him, and was
wrenching from his firm grasp proper
ty unjustly in his possession, to give it
to the right owners; and 1 felt glad of
it although it broke up a man of some
figure.
I have no kind of objection to coach
es, hounds and horses, where they are
supported by proper means; but I have
no patience with a man who indulges
in such . luxuries, while his creditor
has to walk (perhaps barefoot,) and go
supperless to bed, merely because he,
or his wife, has a taste for them, or
that their neighbor, who can afford it,
keeps such things. It is not honest.
But “let us return to our mutton.”
“The punctual man is lord of his
neighbor’s purse.” I knew a man
courts, and wherever business and duy
ty required them to be.
I onco took great pleasure in diniig
at a particnlar tavern, my host W s
entirely to my taste. The first »sh
was invariably placed on the tabb by
his own hand, while the clock was
striking the hour of two. lie vould
not have waited for General Washing
ton himself, who, by the bye, Would
not have expected hi in to do o; lor
he, himself was of this family-*pune-
liliously punctual. But, vvhil* l re
commend punctuality, I am la' lrom
advising running in debt in anyway, it
is a rock on which many youig men
are wrecked. “Borrowing dulls the
edge of husbandry,” aj|l- any one ad
dicted to it is a troublesome neighbor.
Candor and fair deuling are viitues ot
llie aduiO aluunp. 11 Uottosly to th* best
policy,” whatever speculators and
horse jockies may think to the contra
ry, Old School.
A BULGARIAN FAMILY.
The good people had no second room
and we were domesticated v\ itii the
family. It consisted of the man of the
house, the boba, or woman, three
children, and two shepherds. The
house was of wicker work, as the
others, but the walls so low r , that 1
could only stand upright in the middle,
and lie at length close by the sides.—
The hut was, however clean, sweet,
and fresh. The floor was swept and
the carpets spread, and a large lire
blazed in the chimney; and while I
stretched myself among the kind, good
people, and saw their honest faces
brighten in the blaze, 1 lelt mysell
quite at home. We had brought with
us some mutton. This the boba roast
ed for us; and laying on the other side
of the lire an iron circular plate, like
j a Scotch griddle, she poured on it a
! mixture of water, flour, and eggs, so
as to form a thin cake; when tins was
' done, she took it oil, placed it on a dish,
i and proceed to make another; and hav-
i ing interposed cheese and butter be-
tweeu them, she laid the second on
the first. In this way she raised a
pile of pancakes. To these she add
ed a dish of sour cabbage, a pitcher of
wine, and a mug of raki, and sent up
The following from the American
Farmer, is an excellent Essay. It
contains much truth—and furnishes an
excellent practical lesson on (hat old
And almost forgotten adage, that punc
tuality is the very life and soul of bu
siness. —-Fis. fy Tel.
#N THE DUTY AND VALUE OF
PUNCTUALITY.
. County, Md. Sept 1828.
Mr Editor,—
One of the inconveniences I experi
ence here is the want of punctuality.
Among merchants it is a cardinal vir
tue; but does not appear to he much
known in the country, where “Farmers
most do congregate.” “Why do you
dun me?—Is not your money safe?—I
wilLpay when convenient?” Such too
often are the answers the needy tra
der or mechanic receives from the
man of landed estate, proud of his pos
sessions, and abounding in every thing
but ready money, of which he seldom
.feels the want, and therefore, cannot
realize the want in others differently
situated. He has his beef and pork,
and mutton, and poultry; his hay and
corn, and wheat and rye—every thing
but coin. He lives like a prince, and
(too often feels like one towards those
.Who want such advantages. A man,
.of this kidney will live indecent cred
it as a kind neighbor and honest man,
although his creditors go without their
money for years together. A man of
this kind, a sort of feudal Lord, ap
pears to he a privileged person. His
neighbors are shocked at the idea of
sueing him for a debt, although it is
the only way of getting payment. It
appears to me unjust to withhold from
the man who has bestowed his labor
4>U my farm, or spread his groceries
<un iny-table, or clothed my domestics
#nd childrcBj his just dues. It is a
— 0 r - m supper on a stool, with a comfort and
who established a character for punc- , j eg . )atcn t j Klt W ould do credit to an
tuality by borrowing small sums, and fcuglishkitchen ~
without using them, feturned them • • 1 1
punctually at the time appointed.— •
The chai after thus acquired, enabled
him-afterwards to gain a fortune. But
a man of experience has only to cast
his eyes around .to see how important
it is—how universally the punctual,
fair dealer, has succeeded in life; and
how the tricky, cunning man, has tail
ed. There are few exceptions, as we
sometimes hear of robberies
detected.
If a man borrow money he should
During this prepar
ation, she had a distal!' stuck at her
hip, and a reel spinning at the end of
it, which she kept constantly in mo
tion, and from this simple but incessant
machine, the whole family was sup
plied with clothes. After supper the
good woman made me some coffee,
| which Mustaphia carried in his bag;
and then we all lay down together to
1 rest for the night. The man, his wife,
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never t | u . ee chiliircn, two shepherds, Surro
! gee, Tartar, and I, lay amicably side
, by side, rolled in the carpet, with oui
11 u IliUU UUHUlt lltvsis KJj , uy blUC) lUIILU *11 "*VI. vu.
pay it on the day fixed—using no ex- i f ee t to the lire, and slept in peace and
i.use—as “that it rained and he could : good-will. Towards morning I awoke,
„ A * Hint Kn ho/l I'itDn liicnn. 1 f^..A Hm in/lnet cimK (irninun mwl
I not come out; that he had been disap
pointed in his collections, or that wheat
was too low, and he could not sell at
a sacrifice; or, that he did not suppose
a few days would make much odds. ’—
He who makes such excuses knovv6
nothing of the nature and importance
of my subject. I often think of the
conduct of a worthy man whom I once
knew to walk four miles to pay - his
more opulent neighbor as many pence
due, in change, on a late settlement.
“Such an act may appear to some of
your young readers as one ot great
simplicity and folly—mean spirited—
and that such a trifle should have been
forgotten. ” It certainly evinced sim
plicity—the simplicity of virtue, and I
doubt not it was the best day’s work
ho ever did—for it went far towards
establishing a character for honesty
and punctuality.
I have known several young lawyers
succeed in practice with little else to
recommend, while their contempora
ries, of ten times their talents, failed
of success for want of this virtue.—
They were not only punctual in paying
over the.sums collected; but in their
attendance at their offices—at tho
and found the industrious woman and
one of her children, by tbe light of the
fire, spinning cotton on their distall’s.
They were looking at *ne imd singing a
low simple air. 1 thought of my dis
tance from home, and the lindness of
these good people to a strainer, and of
Mungo Park and his affecting account
of a somewhat similar scenc\ and like
him I was.affected even to Gars.
Walsh.
AN ALARMING EVIL
Theje cau be little doubt eft the
correctness ofthe premjling opinion,
that the consumption oHirdcnt sprits
has been, for a few years past,' ah a-
lariningly increasing evil in our coin-
Uy.
By the marshal’s returns in 1810,
it appeared that no less than thirty
three millions three hundred sixty five
hundred and twenty nine gallons of
spirit were distilled and imported,
for .a single years consumption in the
United States; and there is little
doubt that this estimate is far short of
the truth, as there is probably, every
year, a considerable quantity smug
gled into tho country, of which of
course no account is given. If from
that time, the consumption of ardent
spirit has kept pace with the popula
tion, it will amount to fifty six millions
of gallons; but from the increase in
the consumption, says a distinguished
gentleman of our state, in an elabo
rate calculation, from which the fol
lowing results are taken, ‘we may
safely set it down at sixty millions.—
This will give to every individual,
man, woman and child, including bond
and free, five gallons each. Deduct
ing the slaves and children under ten
years of age, it will give to the rest
not less lhan eight gallons each.” *.
[The writer then proceeds to esti
mate the cost of liquors to the coun
try, and the expenses occasioned by
them, at One hundred millions of dol
lars u year; and the number of lives
lost every year in the same manner,
at Tucnlyfivc or thirty thousand. He
then proceeds.]
Hov can any thing be done eflcc-
tually to check this mighty evil? I
give the same answer to this question
whiehlias repeatedly been given with
in the last few months; change pub
lic opnion, make it unpopular, un
fashiomble to drink spirit. What is
the useof applying to Government for
a tax upon ardent spirit so large as to
place it beyond the reach of the lower
classes in the community? Legisla
tive enactments which far outrun pub
lic opinion, are worth nothing. Fash
ion, and custom hold men with a
stronger arm than Legislative pre
scription. But how change public o-
pinion, is it not already an overwhelm
ing torrent rolling onward with resist
less and increasing power? Man can
accomplish wonders both in the phy
sical and moral world, he dares even
meditate a canal across the isthmus
of Darien, expecting to lower the wn-
ters in the gulph of Mexico, and per
haps to stop the gulph stream, and
who that recollects the mighty inoral
achievements accomplished in the
time of the reformation by the cflorts
of a single man, shall despond at the
vastness of the change now contear-
plated?
Let all good men, all well wishers
to social life and family quiet; to
health, industry and the arts; to re
ligion, morals and good government
unite their efforts; and by all possible
means, but chiefly by their example,
in rigidly abstaining from ardent spir
it, discourage and discountenance its
use, among all within the sphere of
their influence.—JMussey's Address.
A SUM OF RELIGION.
Written by judge Hale, Lord Chief Justice
of England w hich was found in a closet
amongst his other papers, after his de
cease,
lie that fears the Lord of Heaven
and Earth, walks humbly before Him,
thankfully lays hold of the Message ot
Redemption by Jesus Christ, and
strives to express his thankfulness by
the sincerity of his obedience. He is
sorry with all his Soul, when he conies
short of his Duty. He walks w atch
fully, in the Denial of himselt, and
holds no Confederacy with any Lust,
or known sin; if he fails in the least
Measure he is restless till he has made
his peace by true Repentance. He
is true to his promises, just in his
Dealings, charitable to the Poor, sin
cere in his devotion. He will not de
liberately dishonour God although se
cure of impunity. He hath his Hopes
and his Conversation in Heaven, and
dares not to do any thing unjustly be
it ever so much his Advantage; and all
this, because he sees Him that is in
visible, and fears him because he loves
him; fears him as well for his good
ness as his Greatness, Such a Man,
whether he be an Episcopalian or a
Presbyterian, an Independent or Ana
baptist whether he wears a surplice,
or wears none; whether lie hears Or
gans, or whether he hears none; wheth
er he kneels at the Communion, or
for conscience sake stands or sits, he
hath the Life of Religion in him; and
• hat Life acts in him; and will con
form his Soul to the image of his Sav
iour, and go along with him to Luiui*
ty, notwithstanding lus PraoLre. or
Non-practice of tilings indifferent Ca
the other side, if he fears not tin, in
ternal God, he can commit bin vi ii
presumption; drink excessively, swear
vainly or falsely, commit adultery, iie
cozen, cheat, his break Promise, live
loosely,though at the same time he may
be studious to practice every ceremo
ny, even to a scrupulous exactness, or
may perhaps as stubbornly oppose
them: though such an one should try
down Bishops, or Presbytery, though
he should berebaptised every Day , or
declaim against it as Heresy; and
though he fast all the Lent, or feast
out of Pretence of avoiding Supersti
tion; yet notwithstanding these, and a
thousand external Conformities, or
zealous opjxisition of them, be‘wants
the Life of Religion.
The Indians of America.-Mr. Flint,
in his excellent book, the Geography
and History of the Western States,
gives a better account of the condi
tion and habits, and a more correct i-
dea of the character, of the Aborigi
nes of our country than can be found
any where else. This book will prob
ably fall into the hands of few of cur
readers, and perhaps we cannot bet
ter serve the purposes of our j aper
than by transplanting into our columns
some of the interesting information it
contains. The study of the history,
geography, and character of mu vast
country and its inhabitants, mry Ire
pursued with advantage by ?I!, arid
none can be said, at this day. to b. Tid
ily informed on these interesting sub-
j jects. Indeed the knowledge of the
people generally, in this particular, is
by far too limited.
The greater part of the Indians of
the United States dwell in the limits
of what Mr. Flint styles the Missis
sippi Valley, that is, the western
states, including Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas ter
ritory, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois,
Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. The
Cherokoes, in many respects the most
interesting tribe, of whom we have
before given some account, have been
most successful in imitating the hab
its and institutions of the whites.—
They have looms, ploughs, black
smiths’ shops, slaves, enclosures,
barns, taverns, brick dwellings in
some instances, public roads, a code of
laws, civil divisions, magistrates, &e.
Their laws are severe, energetic,,
and promptly administered.—Some of
their planters have large enclosures,
and fine stocks of cattle and horses,
and may be considered rich. One
chief, w hom Mr. Flint mentions, has
a dozen slayes, fine teams, ploughs,
and looms; ne has three wives, and
twenty-seven living children. Most
ofthe people of the nation dress in a
cloth manufactured entirely by their
ovvii hands. There are several mis
sionary establishments among them,
and great and increasing attention is
paid to education. A printing press
has recently been established among
them, from which a weekly newspa
per is issued.
In the northern parts of Ohio and In
diana is an establishment of the Shaw-
nees, a tribe once very powerful, but
now hastening to decay. The Potta-
wattomies and Kickapoos are in Indi
ana and Illinois. The Peorias, Kas-
kaskias, and Cahokias, that figured so
much in the early French history of
this country, are almost extinct. Tho
Wyandots, Chippcvvays, and Winne-
bagoes, or Paunts, hunt further to the
northwest, extending their range to
Lake Superior. The Choctaws,
Seminoles, Baton Rouges, Creeks, and
Chickasaws, were powerful tribes be
fore the late war, but in that war re
ceived a withering check. Tho
Sacks, or Saukies, as they call them
selves, inhabit the county above and
below Rock River, and claim the ter
ritory of the lead mines. The la-
ways are further up tho river. The
Menomene inhabit the Menomene to
Lake Michigan. Tho Souix are >till