Cherokee phoenix, and Indians' advocate. (New Echota [Ga.]) 1829-1834, August 12, 1829, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPRINTED UNDER TIE PATRONAGE, AND FOR THE BUNEEIT OF THE CHEROKER NAT tﬁ. AND DEVOTED T 0 THE CAUKE OF INDlANKweekis BOUDINGI'T) MRITO VOL. 11, i v ] .U W g -rmi'wtnw oo JOUN F, WHEBLER, At #2060 o pald b advance, #9 In six months, or §id &0 {0 padd at the end ol the year, o wabacribers who can vend only the Ohrrokoe langaage the prica will ho 1§2,00 I advanee, or 52,60 (o be pakd within the Yoear, Wyary subseription will be considered as wontinwad anloss anbmseihar give notles to ha conteary heafors the commneneament of & new yearand all arvoaragos pald, Ay person |n'm'uvln|g whx nuhseribors, word hacoming vesponsihla for the payment, whall veselvo a neventh gratls, ~ Advertisements will o fnsorted nt sevens ty=five conts por aquare fow the fest dnsers tion, and (hiveyssoven and o hall conts tor onch continwance) longer onew I propar, thon, P AN Yettors addeemsed to the Biditor, post pald, will yeceive duo attention, AGENTH TOR 'THE CHEROKEE PIHONIX, The oVlowlng persons are authorized to yocalve subseriptions and payments for the Chevolies Phanix, Mewsrs, Purnon & Winniams, Noy 40 Market Bt, Boston, Muans, . Gponan M, Tuaoy, Agent ol the A, B, O, ', M, Naw York, lav, A, D, Eony, ('luvmndniﬁun N. Y, Taomas Hawrvrvas, Uliea, N, V. ' , é{}n:x.}un k.‘(’J-mvum,{'Hah'lrmnd‘\’a. v, damns Casennrg, Boanlor, 8, O, 45 LLIAN Movhw’&q}ﬁm._fa’lnh&mn, O, Guonan S, Siatasville, W, T, Winnian M, Cosenn, Nashyille, ‘Fen, Rov, Bennne Roarins, Powal, Ma, My, "Twos, I, Gorn, (an itinerant Gone tleran,) Joenssan Avsrir, Mahile, Ala, Rev, Ovius Kinasnony, Mayhow, Choes taw Natlon, Capt, Winnias Ronsuwson, Augusia, Goorgln, Col, Jamus "Tunw, Dellofonte, A, RICLIGIOUS, I"vom the Missionary Harald, SANDWICH ISLANDS, Butracts from the veport of the station at Lahabna, datod 16th of October, 1828, Bince the lnst communtentions lrom this station, vegulue voliglous sorvioe s boon attendod twice wvery Sub huthy and once on every Wedneaday, A viteohotical meeting i also hold on Thuraday of every woel, ot which the people ave questianed vespecting the sevmons preached during the wooke, nnd nlso respocting the exsentiol dootrines of the Bible, and where thoy also liove an opportunity to pro pose questions themeelven on rulhq!mw subjectd, The numbor who attend is wonslderably more than o thousand gome of whom come n distance of twalve or fifteon milos, The femnles also continue to hold o meoting by thomselves on Fridny of every woek, AL the famale mambers of the ehureh tako part In conduoting this meeting amang whom {8 the princess, who hy har pevtinent and fooling exhortations often produced a grent offect on (he minds of the lstenors, On Baturday avening s a prayer meeting of the ahiurch and those who are eandintes for chureh mambership. At all these moetings some one of our number s weunlly, i not nlwnyl.“mmt. i You are alvandy aWhro that this plach is the contre of misslonary ope vatlons for Maul, Molokal, Lanul, and Kahoolawe, Lahaino 1s the only place whore there Is regular presching, Tt i, however, by no means the only lnes where poople assemble for vo li fous worship o 0 the Sabbath, - 'lqmm nre not lass than twenty places on this bsland, and several on ”olokul and Lanal, where the people assem- NEW EOHOTA, WELNBSDAY AUGUST 12, 1629, ble for prayer and tmstraction, The native lunnrwu (ake the diveotion of the moatings, oecupying the tima reading wnd toachmg the vaclous sorip tare traets and other books, wod con clada with prayer, By tals conrn the poople wro msplrod with o rovers anee for the Sabbathy and though the tenohers are themsolves oxtromely fge norant, yat they are ablo, In this man nar, Lo communlonte somo fnstraction, and the people are thareby kept from uuumhﬂng for viclous purposes, and worse than ldle conversation, Whe o Chrlstion aspect is sprend over this portion of l'mumll‘y heathen population, —On a wmall isfand, eon tadiing feas than 80,000 fnhubitants, by whom, elght yeurs bofore, God and his Sabbath and Word were never honrd of, nor ony voligion, oxcopt one comslating in Idu{utroul. arnel, ond i cantions rites, there nre now twont placos where God is worshippod, hfr ‘ teath maditated u|um. and Hl Namo Invoked, overy Sabbathy and that, too, when there in no misslonary to sum mon the peaple togather, or keap up thair intorest, The ehunge hoth as to the extamnls of their vellglon nnd the considerntions which oporate on tholr minds, can searcely be concelys o, Bvection of a e for Worship at Lahaina, | The attention of the people to pubs ‘ lio worship, we think, u\m-l not dimins h, The fterest which the ehiefs and poople in Lahindon feel on (his subjoet is mankfosted, insome degioe, by thelr engngedness in erocting nnow houso of worship, The chilefs coms meneed eutting stons and maldng pro paration for this nhout seven months | ngo. The comer stone of the build-‘ hg was lald on Mow. Hopt, 14, The ouly ceremony on the occuslon | wos o l{wrl addrens md prayor, Al the partieular voguest of Hlnu i the bull«“na rovelves the nnme o} Lhones cor, Mds 104 feat Jong, and B 0 wide, The stones of which the house bs huilt nea volonule, oaslly hewn, and rather Heht and porous. ot ave very tenns clous and will roslst the setion of the wenther, To build this howse, the ecommon [umplu nre taxed for some Tabior; bt ho ronl oxpense of the bullding s nearly all defrayod by the ¢hiofs, and principally by Flonpill, 1t in thus far, und promises i the end to he, very mu('L superior to any thing whieh has been attempted in this part of the world, ICis propor hero to mention that the \\'lwln numbor of marviages at this station wince the last communication in QBBI making the wumber since s eatablighment 904, Thore hnve eenno additions to the chural ot this pluce since the st of Apvil, - Pourteon persons, however, now stand |u-n|mu|u,m| to be recelved at the next communlon, 'eom the Amerlean Pastor's Journal, THI, CONFESSION, I once attondod publie worship in o pladn conntey town bnone of the north orn states, when a olreamstance oes eurved which fnterestod my feolings not & lttle, Fram the dgift of the diseourss, which the minlster with mueh sovlousness and onvnestness do livered, T peveeivad that the churel bl boon engoged In some unhappy steife, Amidst this steife, ﬂlmlr Chlstion ehuraeter hod lost iy lustre, The ministor exhorted them to repent of thelr slns with which they were Juatly ehargoablo, and to make honrt yo hiumbla confession of the desds, by which they had dishonored thelr Save foue and et Hs onuse. At the elose of tho sevmon, o man vose in the eons gregntion, and began to speale, with conslderable warmth and sharpnoss, of the burdens witew vig CoNnueT op WIS HRETHREN (AD HEAFED PN i, The minlster at onee interrupts ad him by putting the following ques ton to Wiy My, s hnve you any confesglon to make " "I'he man, somes what embarrasped, looked up to the pulpity and repliod, "lﬁﬂougm I wan macing @ gonfonsion,” £Upon this, the midter demanded, "”avn you any ontonsion for yowrself o olfor?” “It would takeo me o long thine, " answver od theman, o give l'ufl neeount ol the burdeas 1 have had to bear," = DOV ekl e minister, with aomo dogren ol earnentnon, “llmm. Jou satd any wiekod words, or done any’ wioted things, which you wivh to cons o"1 s the man promptly ves phied, “"No Sin!" . Tho prompy N Sir of thip man e hoen notw Hittle instraetive to mo, I have knowa people, who could elos quently and earnestly talle and pray n bout their *total dopravity,” who would never boar the gontlest reproot, whieh looked towards wny of thelr i dividunl faults, Alas! 1 have said to mysesl . notwithatunding your high-ton m(orllnmluxy and - soeming humility how promptly do you wmmwoer NG Nl 1o the question, *Have you said any wiokod words, or done any wicke ad hings, which you wish to confess?” You moun nothing when you call yours nolves totally ||A|)l'l|\'m{." In the course of o eann ol disoipline, o chureh have wrged homa vpon on offonding brother (he olearest proof that, i the alleged faalt, he had boon gudlty: 1T have seon that brother arise, and liave hoarvd him sy, *1 am indecd a poor stner<am full of foults —=um committing sin qvary day;™ and then ndd, with somo -l(mrpnuuu. Sgl ot confoss the evima you allege agninat mo,” Poor man, I have hoen ready to sny, while you own yoursell to he lull of faults, you have your **No, sir,” to defond yoursll nuufmt tho charge ol nny llnu'lyn e of tham? Wihile Fimplore forglvensss of the Snviour for my many slns, ot me hes wore of that hardness of heart, and as vorston to veproof, which send forth their nmmmlinu SNU Sir,” to meet the chinrge of guilt, Z INTIMPIIRRANCOK, Intemporanee s rolling theough our land o viver 4i/' deathy, o viver which seorches and consumes every thing that Mowts apon its burakng suelnce, and hieve too, the appeal may ho made to stabbor facte, In estimating the offeots of spleitwous Haguors on human henlth nnd |il'v. I will areeange the eons fumers into distinet elusgos=«drank wrds, habitunl temporato deinkers, and those who tako o Hitle on speolal ocenstons, and ne they sy, for negoss sy purposes, lf‘;o olaws of drunks nnf’n may he neludod not only those who dilale dend Intoxiention, but Hkes wine those who love the hottle so woll that they must drinl overy duy; who (el Tost without thelr noeuntoms ad denmy and who keep always full, though they may never be unable to nbtend tor thely ordinary husinoss, These men deserve to he hound up i yn common bundle with beastly deunlenrds. OF thin first oloss thero are dn the Unlited States 800,000, & ot lonst 30,000 of theso die every yeny, What o swoeeplog mortality ﬂ thie! one man in every ten, from these fears (ul vanlen, bn onnuilly eallod to Bl o dranleard’s grave! Drankenness Is 1« sell o discone) o dinease which s pers forming the work of death with n more dosoluting vengeance than the yellow ) fover or the plagne, In almost every enno It proves futal, Look at the deunknrd, Tks often diffieult to any whether, In takiug the census you onght to numbor him with the Hving or the dead, Ma bs alveady o noked sleeloton, or o bloated corpse; n walk g mummy —=whan ho emn walk; o aol wemeanimutod putrefaetion He o doad while he Hves, HBury him while in o it o Tntoxieation and he would vot as quiele ns any other *oml man. latemperanos, even iit Wer not the parent of ather diseasos, s H’ ‘ soll the bluelst plague that ever visit od and eufyed |llm world, Bt (his ovil comen not single handed, Ask Yho physiclan, and he will tell you, that it orlginates many of dmwt al Motive diseases that are cutting down our dying race, By strongly exciting the stomueh, it soon dostroys its tone and brings on loss of appotite, induces tl{llmrllu, and Tayn (he l'uuminl.ion for dintramsing and fatal complaint of (he bowels, It produces lullunuunlluu ol the Hyar; uu& often terminates n ol stenotions, enlargement, suppuration, wnd even skderus of that fmportant or gan, Juundice and dropay follow on i the fatal tealne By fnoreasing o tevinl action, it proys upon the deli cato structure o” the Tungs, paints the heetle Mush upon the ehool, and houves the hoare and deep-sontad congh that propheeies of the sepul chro, o Ihll’unuw muat be relers red o luege proportion of the ensen of chaumitivm, and a sl aeger propor ton of the gout, TEaets most power fully npon ﬁm bratu, prm'luulugllull.un mation of that ovgan ond e surronnd ing membranos, wnd indueing opilep- N(. poley, npoplexy, and mudness, the mont distrossing of' ol disenses 1y the “dalivium tremens,” or “manln o portuy" ory b plaka Boglish the braln favor of the deankard, 11 theve Is ne ny Austamee, inowhich man, ot the present day, s delivered over, soul nnd body, to the huffetting of o) apis vite, the deunknreds manin farnlshes that exnmplot That person who la afllietad with (hig disease foels bims poll In hell, while yot oa enrth, Roev, My, Heman, AMBCALCULATION, rom Philan, & les, A gentlaman of wealthy and high atanding dn waclety, ;}’3! nprl‘.ml (e e or o ngo, to o ._}n tho promo {lomur;\l‘,am ,'_um.; | 'G‘Mxltﬂl (he «‘m}kwgw el d ‘*o3 . ] onynndy on on in sueh AOROH, m;awd the wntter us somos thing that eonoorned only the lower climson of wul?ﬁ%y. fowards whom ho folt vm?' hunovalontly disposod, but D Tetle fadth In ths suecess of nny monaires for thele reformationg ho sldas, the enlls on his purse wers so nomoerous that, ronlly, 1t was not in hig power to do any thing, nt prosent, It would have hoen unedvily Iy the applicant, to have dntimated that tomperance noadad 1o he preached in Am hatla of the Txavious and the waonlthy, o madestly toole his leave, The ealls upon the purss ol the man ol wenlthy were fndead namorous and froquent, T'he oduention of his only son and hobey ond Wis proper Jnlthation ito the plonsures and amuasamonts of noyoung gentlemen of fortune, could not -bo otherwise than oxpansive, Bt all theso expenson wore choorluls ly defeayed as necossary; while the lwwury ol promoting — Temperance conld not "mlu!hl bo indulyed, Naow mavk the ruuulfy. That only son and ',lhulr, lot this momont, a conflmmed woty, and. his disteessed father hos digoovored his mistake, when it iy too late to amend it Yol ho now puts forth o helplng hand, i the canse ol Temporaneo, anxions, if ,mulplu. to save othors (rom the ovils 10 how experloncod, and to do his duty for the future, thoughhe comol Aitone for the past, ' Abstinenco a ewre for Dyspepula, oA vonerablo elorgyman rynh‘iu;z I onoe o the Southevn States womnvla, fn o lotter to u ffend tn this erty, o subs stanco o followsy ©1 had heon in the habit for Aty yoars of taking a lttle Drandy or whio, and thought it noeces: wnry to promote digestion, ns my hab- Iwan llfvnpup!lu. About a yoar slneo I sllently “abandoned the wee of wll nlhnulul“ll Hauors, and on tho result ol my own exporience I ean tostify, that the tones of my stomneh wre ros storad to o parfoetly healthful netion, - that my general honlth in, in evo ry other respoot, grently tmproved,” Lot athers follow |l|‘lu oxamplo, and It i prosamed that o far gronter num hor of cortiffiontos to the soverelgn virtues of total abutinenee con shortly ha obtained, than nre now fixed to any ol the untidyspeptic elixirg which are vended ot the apotheearion, woe Chiarloston Observer, | INDIANS, THE CHEROKEE INDIANS, Wao oall the attontion of our I'dl}ut ors 1o the elaborate and dmpartial statemont ol the relations between the United States und (he Chorokoos, appoaring in this evening s papor. It b writton with cloarmess and power, wnd wlthough long, i well entitlod to a cavelul porusal, The American rnorlo Wil now perceive how harshe y the gallant tribos uomponlnr (hiy nation, and whose feiendly velutions with the Fodoral Government hive always bo;n \pwqum&;m n‘lu:m W be treated CHONE Adminintyos "!‘O*\i;,llfl,! 11‘& ‘b(q'&lué I policy ind sontiments aro to all the administae Hons that linve preceded ft, Tho lotter of the Indiun: agont, n the Post of Just ovening, doos nog moot *llu quostion discussed in (he proveding artiele. 1 weroly vepent the prineiples advaneod in the ul‘h 1.. J lattor of |\m Seoretary of War, i doen ot glance at the express guarune Loo given by the United Ntaten to the Cherokeas, of their lands forever, - 1 we donot mintake, (his subject wild make a daep impresslon on the pulye Ho mind In this “country ond i Ky ropes== N\ Y, Aerican, For the N, Y, Amerlonrd, ~ "The velutions now oxinting between the government of the United States | tnd the Cherakea nation, have boon vendvrod well worthy of exumiuation, by tha lute pracoedings at Waslington. | w ‘;“'? ordinnry _reing i‘ WP"! OUI' '«is‘ LWL af’ :Y‘,ﬁ,:;,“‘- - he W fMV“i‘w “‘;' Hlod hval with J,_u‘ s -i-w‘.ﬁ:‘«{-w\ ~v " U ,"tn paw-' ory wid whowo provisions are styongly marked with the enlightened and r}lﬂv nefleent spivit, whlaﬁ we claim o |muullnrl|y charneterostio of the nu- Gonal poliey of the Unlted States (ov wards the orlginal nhubltants of the Amerioan continent, The gradual recosslon of this exs traordinnry vace of mon, from (he nd vivneing steps of eivilization, and the dimappenrance of teibo alter trilie (rom the aontinent s It beeams oe euplod by ‘the descendunts of Bviopes nnny lonving mlly'ﬂ\Mrm.mumuu'l i thelinamen to didiente that they hid baen—=had begun (0 exeito o melind choly intorent b the publio mind, o von plfovious to the Ilhm’h'un Hevos latlon. — The humane folt that (hiy provess of dostrgetion, which in some placos (as dn Cuba wnd Hispaniola) wis causod by the Eyropeans, was uvm'fy where 0 comsequonce of (hair ontlgnily and a natural pnxiety wan ovibeod to preserve from eadinetion u 1000 of men, who, to (he vieag of wive agony inlted, b an ominent dogree, it the noble wnd exalted “yualitios of (ha pavage stole, Among (he Ling!ish oolontate this anxfety wos fnerenned by (e vosponsibity they assunrod - “ou the daclarntion of fndependenc ¢ Provious tq Wn‘t'o’\'vul, ashare of the ,ij{nuluiblhlp\ had restod wpon (he Bithsh ™ government, Upon the colo wal - govemmonts, indoed, had de. volvu‘llm medianto administration of Badinn affnien, Iy the cmr*{uwlml of hlntumllm veoupation 8l tliels torvitory toole plaoe upon theie e wponsibility and nover, alnce (le oarth waw glven to. man o roploniih Aand eultivate, wos nl)m&?r [t moto ’ oquitablo title obtalned to Ity yoll, © Inall tho colonted, treatios Iwor zmla qw'l Enbor’ Inal fiha “n"? thelr aon oblnu’ad lor Wlye ligod ouqu‘u fon u!‘:hu try vilhs In ue‘qlln Hmits, "Thely (itls, fnpor - foot ao 1t may be admitted it s, I oxtended over (he unealthvig el ﬂ boundless forent, \va‘ falrly purchags o, and onr nnamtor onme fito pogs dowston unwtalond with the gl O”lll“ mithorleed and forefhle 0001681 The vight \*‘ I olvilizad m‘n,l.’?u 1o the ov ° or ‘ r.ﬂlm M‘_ NO. 19. ᎧᏣᎳᎩ ᏧᎴᎯᏌᏅᎯ ᎯᏴ ᏂᎦᎥᏧᏔᏩᎷᏗ. ’ ᏙᎦᎪᏓᏔᏍᏗ ᎢᎪᎯᏛ ᏌᏉ ᏧᏂᎴᏴᎪᏗ ᎨᏎᏯᏗ; “ ᏒᎻᎧᏁᎳ ᏗᏲᏂᏬᏂᏗᏜᎩ ᎷᎢᏁ ᎠᎫᎵ ᎤᏮᎫᏴᏗ ᏑᏗᏎᏱᎢ ᎢᏈᏊᏪᎲ. ᎢᎠᏔᏪᏅᏛ- ᎠᏮᎫᏱᏡᏂᏍᏗ, ᎢᏳᏃ ᏑᏓᎵ ᎢᏯᏅᎪ ᎢᎠ ᎠᏮᎫᏱᏡᏂᎵᎲᏍᏗ). ᏦᎢ (ᏡᎸᏄ ᎤᎾᎫᏒᏗ ᎨᏎᏍᏗ ᎠᏎᏗᏱᏎᏔᎳᏃ ᎢᏰ ᎩᎳ ᎠᎾᎫᏱᎸᏂᏍᏗ, ᎤᎩᏁᎢ ᎠᎷᎮ ᎤᏮᎫᎳᏗ ᎨᎭᏎᎭᏗ, ᏄᎳᎩᏃ ᎤᏩᏒ ᏗᏂᎧᏂᏗᏍᎩ, ᏔᎵᏉ ᎠᏡᏎᏄ ᎤᎫᏁᏗ ᏂᎭᏎᏯᏗ ᏑᏎᏘ1107, ᎢᎹᏛᏃ ᎢᏧᏪᏅᏛ ᎠᎾᏮ” ᎫᏱᏍᎵᏍᏗ, . ᏦᎢᏁᏃ ᎠᎫᎵ ᏣᎴᎩᏉ ᎤᎦᏗᏴ” ᏌᏗᎳ ᎠᎾᏮᎫᏠᏱᏍᎨᏔᏗ,