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QWW JefJFO^. l CmROKEE PHIENIX, M® INDIANS’ ADVOCATE, PRINTED UNDER THE PATRONAGE, AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHEROKEE NATION, AND DLVOUED TO TliL C'AUfeL O* INDIANS. E. BOUDINOTT, Editor. NEW ECHOTA, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 2.j, 1829. rr?=r=:r — VOL. i'.-itO. f,(k pfciN TEU WEEKLY BY J.M3- F. wail 1LUR, At $2 50 if paid in advance, $3 in six months, or $3 50 if paid at the end of the year. To subscribers who can read only the Cherokee language the price will lie £2,00 in advance, or £2,50 to be paid within the year. Every subscription will be considered as aontinned unless subscribers 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-five cents per square for the first inser tion, and thirty-seven and a half cents for each continuance; longer ones in propor tion. sCj**All letters addressed to the Editor, post paid, will receive due attention. •<swy 3 A V G~ J) JID ns; J r. ai? J. reAVXoO.I TA^r tf*V* .HuTBA.l K4c».I. n®yiE .jhcjriaotiy kt/l d^p o^e.Tn.i I*.*-*.!, T<rz TEJUtW 5 DOJ^I-cSM. TCTZ r&P T.-90-.Y TB DeJySodP'cai.J, KT D'f-q VO.TBa Iv4^JC. D?.I/S«)EZ TB y IV O-yJlT D s SP (P0JB.I r-4c3a. Gtvyz (PCvii ar.uhaoty, wf.y* «»0'Ba K4b?).J fS-IBr, TCTZ TEJtfC~1” D0" KT.1Z D£P eo?y‘V« 0»9..CU _ tUK • AGENTS FOR THE CHEROKEE PHCENI*. The following persons are authorized to receive subscriptions and payments for the ■ Cherokee Phoenix. Messrs. Peirce &. Williams, No. 20 i Market St. Boston, Mass. George M. Tracy, Agent ofthc A. B. <1. F. M. New York. Rev. 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—P®wal Me. Mr. Thos. R. Gold, (an itinerant Gen tleman.) Jeremiah Austil, Mobile Ala. “I must answer you in the words oi Gibbon; “it would be takng a leap ir. the dark.” 1 left the man as i foun biin, and went away with the impres sion, his was a hopeless case. Abou six weeks after, 1 was called to visit the same man, and found hi in in very dilferent circumstances. He was on bis death-bed, sinking under the pow er of a fatal disease.—Mis sentiments and views were also changed no less than bis circumstances. 1 took him by the ha.id, and risked him what he wished me do? He replied, 1 wish you, sir, to pray with me.” And lot what shall 1 pray? “That I may have I'epontunco, & preparation lor death.” Do you think, sir, that you are soon to die? ’‘Yes, die I must.” Have you any doubts concerning the truth of the Bible? “1 have no dsubts of its truth.” Can you rest upon4he Sa viour? “I have no interest in him.” Will you not pray to him? “I cannot; will you pi ay for wie?”—Can you not repent? “No, my heart is hard as a stone.” Poor man! the honest hour, the trying hour had now come, and his infidelity was gone.—How chang ed the sentiments! how changed the views of this man, from what they were when 1 saw him before? Then, a frank and acknowledged seeptie; now, a convinced, yet impenitent sin ner. Then, ho could not belive in Christ, or revelation, for want of evi dence; now, his reason is most fully convinced, yet no new evidence has been brought to his mind. Sad hour, indeed, to he convinced of infidelity! 1 kneeled by his bed and tried to pray that faith and repentance might be given him. After prayer, I talked with him again; hut could not learn any thing better. The next morning a message came for me: “Mr. is dying; will you go ?” I went, but it was too late to do him any good; and 1 stood arid looked upon him, while the spirit took that dread ful “/cap” into the eternal world. Surely it was “a leap in the dark!' “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Pastor's Journal. by- HELISIOUS. A LEAP IN THE DARK. {Fi/rnished by a Clergyman.] In my pastoral visits, in the town .*>f , where I was then residing, 1 called upon a family, with the father ►of which, this was my first personal interview. He was a man of intcr- TO PARENTS. • Children are born to an endless ex istence, and time is the threshold which ushers their souls into eternity. This short and single step of life is to them fraught with the most moment ous consequences. The well-being or the wretchedness of tiie soul de pends upon it. Watchfulness and en- ifisting appearance, and his counten , , , . once was highly expressive of iutelli- ! lightened care during this short mo- ,gence. His age about 40, and around ‘ " c *" u 1 him clustered the yonng immortals committed to his care. He w'as a lit tle indisposed, and was perusing some volume, I suppose, of history. He readily laid it aside, and with much apparent checrfulncssf answered my .■inquiries concerning his soul. In the course of our conversation, he made the following disclosures. He said, *‘I cannot receive the Bible as a rev elation from God.” Why can you not? “There appears to me not suf ficient evidence.” Do you find suffi cient evidence against it, that you dare reject the Bible? “No, I can neither receive nor reject it.” How long have you been in this state? “Several years.” And have you cx- . a rained into the evidence adduced to * prove the authenticity of the Bible? “I ' have searched and read pvery thing I could find—I have made it a great •study; but here I am, in perfect un certainty.” Do you fepl happy in ^your present state? “No, I am a wreteiied mm—1 wish I had the con solations of those who can believe the Bible.” I said to him, “then it is .honestly the case with yon, that you • doubt whether there ever was such ta person as Jesus Christ, or any truth 1 in his words recorded; doubt concern- ling a future state,a heaven or ia hell in Vhe coming world?” “Yon, that is I ny ease, hut I enn’t help it!” Should j 'on die, sir, this night, where do yon < hiuk you would go?” Ha replied, incut of time secure happiness and peace; while carelessness and indif ference entail on the individual pain and misery, without mitigation and without end. Parents,—even professing Chris tian parents,—are seen on every side of us, mindful of the lesser parts of their duty, but forgetful of the grea ter. They are anxious, and careful, and constant, in securing and promot ing the bohlily health and the tempor al comforts of thejr lille ones;-and in dulging, not improperly, in the grati fication derived from the neatness of their apparel, the activity and sprightliness of their motions, the men tal energy or quickness of Observation indicated by their remarks, and the genteel address, modest demeanor manliness of conduct, or dignity of sen timent, which they can sometime per ceive in these objects of their tendcr- cst affection.—But, alas! in how few instances do we perceive a similar anxiety about religion?—In what par ticular line of conduct towards their children can we trace ny thing like an equal share of exertion for their spiritual welfare?—These temporali ties,—good in themselves no doubt hut yet hut temporal—seem to ab sorb all their care, and to the pronto! mg and perfecting of which, at leas* ninetenths of their exertions are de voted. 0 how painful!—to see ra tional creatures thus amusing (hern- selves, and playing antics with immor al soul-*, as if they were mere ie s toys, and miqle only lor .atnu*»t- ncut! Souls, which are doomed to •njoy or to endure an eternity «i .lessedness or wo; and whose onq jiance of attaining the one, and « scaping the other, is inclosed witliiiV ihat delicate bubble of life and time, with which their inhuman parents ire so thoughtlessly sporting; seeming ly unconscious, that the slightest ac cident or disarrangement of particles may in a moment hurst the airy eonri- lound, and consign the darling objects if their folly to endless and irretriev able) ruin. There are, however, many ltomr- able exceptions to this general neg lect. Parents who feel, as well is profess to know, the value of souk, will not allow their attention (o l,e absorbed by the things of the w ord; and though careful and even troubl'd about many things, they will never forget that for their children as well as for themselves.is there but onetliirg needful. They value their children, not as they value toys, by the plea sure and amusement which they at present communicate, but as destin ed to he their companions and frierds in another state. Their love for thtir i hildren is of too noble and dignifieda kind to admit, for a moment of any de gree of comfort or satisfaction at the idea of a perpetual separation at death. Their views and their hopes extend beyond the grave; and, it)the s irit of true Christian pilgrims, they 1 not only rise above the world in their j own affections, and steadily and daily i look beyond it for their settled enjoy ments, but they labour assiduously to bring their little companions,—those | lambs of Christ’s flock, which their heavenly Father has given them to feed,—to indulge the same desires, to cherish the same hopes, and to en deavour by all means, within them selves, to secure an interest in that inheritance which is incorruptible and ttndefiled, and which fadetli not a- way. To such parents, we would with all the w armth of brotherly affection and esteem, say, “Our hearts are enlarg ed towards you.” We lejoioe, that the Lord has put it into your heart to do this thing; and would gladly re mind you of the premise made by the God of truth, that the child who is thus trained up in the way he ought to go, wil: not, when he is old deport from it. But we would most affec tionately remind you, at the same time, that the religion of your child must he the same in kind, if not in de gree, with your own. \ ou know, and you feel, that your religion has its sent, not in the head, hut in the heart, —and so must the religion of your child. • You know, that your religion consists, not in empty sounds, nor mere professions: hut, in the fruits of a living faith, in denying yourself to sin, and living to holiness and to God; and that all the satisfaction of religion which you eujoy, arises pure ly from a knowledge of the love of God as exhibited in Jesus Christ, and the daily delight which you receive, in being enabled by his grace, more and more to conform your life to his will, and to live to his glory. Now' this is what your child must be taught, and this is the only way in which be. ns well as you yourself must go. if you ever expect to meet each other in heaven. This is religion; & any thing shWt of ill’s is spurious & false. Be w'nre. then, in resting in that kind of verbal instruction for your child, which has been so improperly termed a religions education, or of being sat- 'sfied with that religion which is so only in name. S. S. j)lag. iRV ING, MOORi 'J. An?er is an approach to insanity. Wisdom, though spurious, is never sullen. Weak people, arc apt to be posi tive. \ fonsr-quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw.. SCOTT, AND COMPARED. From the North Ameiicun Review for Junuary, 1820. We cannot refrain lioin expressing our satisfaction at the very favoura ble manner w ith which Mr. Irvings Life of Columbus’ compart s with one or two works of similar kind, that were published about the same time y the best writers of the mother country Tl>«. 'Lrifc of Napolcau by ir Walter Scott, and the ‘Life oi Sheridan by Moore, particularly the former, resembling it so nearly in plan and form, that, coming out, as they all did, about the same time, they exhibit in a measure a trial of skill between three of the most ele. gent writers of the day.' V\ e let I a good deal of pride as Americans in ad ding, that our countryman appears to have retired from the dangerous con test with a very decided advantage, we think we might say a complete vic tory, over both his competitors. Wc mean not to deprive these illustrious transatlantic hards of any fame, to which they may he justly entitled, by the productions in question; nor do wc mean to represent Mr. Irving’s general reputation as at the pi t sent superior or equal to theirs. VI e sim ply state the fact ns it is, considering it to he one highly honorable to our countrymen and our country. We shall even go farther, being in a pat riotic vein, and while we freely ad mit tlint Mr. Irving’s fame is mid ought to be, at present, inferior to I that of the two British poets above mentioned, we shall take the liberty of adding, that w'e are not quite sure whether it will always remain so. Moore and Scott have already done their best, and from the character of their productions for some years past, as compared with those of car er date, it is evident that they will not hereafter excel or perhaps equal their past efforts. Mr. Irving s tal ent seems to us, on the contrary, to he ia a state of progress; for although his second manner he, as w e think, in- fe' ior, on the whole, to his first, the difference is not, as we have already expressly stated, owing to any decay of genius, but to an ’unfavorable change of scene and subject; and in this first specimen of a third series of publications, we recognise, though under a somewhat graver form, a de velopment of power superior to that which is displayed by any of the pre ceding ones, even should the ‘History of New York,’ as a bold original crea tion, he considered as belonging to a higher class of writings. We also recognise in the selection of the sub ject, the persevering industry with which the work has been executed, and the high tone of moral feeling that runs through the whole of it, the symp toms of a nohle spirit on which the intoxicating cup of public applause acts as a stimulent rather than an opiate. Mr. Irving is still in the vig our of life and health; and when we see him advancing in his course in this way, with renovated courage and re doubled talent, at an age when too many hearts begin to wax premature ly faint, we are induced to anticipate the happiest results from his future labours; and are far from being cer tain, ns we said above, that he may not in the end eclipse the most illus trious of his present contemporaries and rivals. We rejoice to find, from the selection of the subject of the work now hefore us, that though long a wanderer, his thoughts are still bent ori the land of his birth. Although we w ish not to hasten his return he fore the period when he shall himself deem it expedient, we indulge the hope that lie will sooner or later fix Ins residence among us, and can as sure him that whenever he rnay think woper to do so. he will be welcomed ' v his countrymen as a well deserving citizen and a public benefactor, From the Mobile (Alah.) Commercial Register. We learn from Tuscasoosa, that a Bill is in its passage in the Se nate, io lay on the linnaii territory, embraced within the geographical limits ot ihe State, into Counties; to extend s.ntl exercise jmisdiction o\er it—to fa x every person who lesiia s in it, ^I*im.nff of course,) cornpvl them to work ou roads, &c e arc aware that our notions oil this subject are somewhat old fash ioned, but as an excuse for not keep ing pace with our new Hedged politi cians, in their innovations upon usages that are associated w ith nil that is dear to the heart of an American 1 atnot, wc subjoin an extract fron. the Con stitution ol the Stale, and should he extremely gratified to learn how onr ‘ most potent, grave and revert mi” Senators are going to dispose of it.— Wo will premise, however, that ill the year lblb the Congress of the I'nitcd States passed an act admitting the Teniloiy ol Alabama to the priv ileges of a State, on the condition named in the ordinance of Congress cf the 12lh July, I'iS?, for the govern ment of the w estern territory of the United States, the third article of which declares— “That the utmost good faith shall nhvays be observed towards the In dians; their lands and property shall i.r> ver be taken from them without thi ir consent—and in their property, right, and liberty, they shall never be inva ded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful, wars, authorized by Con gress.” The extract from the Constitution to which we have reference is in tie following words:— “This coinniit'ce for and in behalf of the people inhabiting this Stale do accept the proposition offered hy the Act of Congress, under which they are assembled, and this convention for and in behalf of the people inhabi ting this Slate, do ordain, agree, and declare, that they forever disclaim all right or title to the waste or unapj ro- priated lands lying w ithin this State, and that the same shall be and remain rf the sole and entire disposition of the United States; and moreover, tl at each and every tract cf land sold by the United Stales, after the first of Septemer next, shall be and remain exempt from any tax laid hy order or under the authority of this State^ wheather for state, county, township, parish or any ot her purpose whatever for the term of five years, from nnct after the respective days of the sales thereof; and that uo tax shall be im posed on lands the property of the Uir it ed States,” MORE INDIAN MURDERS. The follow ing is an extract of a let ter to the Editor, from a respectable citizen of Miller county, tilled 16th inst. “With deep concern, I have to in form yon of more Indian hostilities- A Mr. Whitesides has just returned from a trip to the Camanche country. Dis rompnny. four in number, w ere all kill- ed! Mr. Joel Dyer, of Hempstead roHiity was among the number. J he Indians commenced trading with them in a seining friendly manner, hut scoa coRimenced the work of massacre. Mr. Whitesides made his escape, hy leaping down a high bluff, and conceal? ed himself in a thicket, until night, when he returned, and saw the bodies of his murdered companions. lie picked up a few scraps of meat,(hav ing no gun), on which he subsisted sparingly ten days, after which he was five days w ithout any provisions before ■ he reached our settlements. “These prairie Indians doubtless intend mal ing war or the w hite inhab itants of this frontier, which is grept'v exposed; and it is to he fcard that much dninare will he done in the spring tf not sooner, unless the government