Cherokee phoenix, and Indians' advocate. (New Echota [Ga.]) 1829-1834, February 17, 1830, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texty 1 1 v i.j» 3DL- PRINTED UNDER THE PATRONAGE, AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CHEROKEE NATION, AND DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF INDIANS.—31, i l l MM ’I'i . .1. c it. 27, iSS®. 11W &OHGT. wmm V .1. o. *= rwsaftK*. * 4.V df.t’Pfi.u: *• - * • % i»niN*rr.ji we* :% i.v ly JNO. F. WilEELEH, that liit; wishes and sup osed interests of the whites, and not the benefit of liuli.ins, allied all the impulse unde, iwlii.h Georgia and •iier advocates I appear to act. The Ind ms are.in I the way of the whites/thCi must bv yii ;ro!cce language th.> price wist lie $2,00 removed for the gratifunt ion of I In in Advance, or tfi,53 to be paid within the whites; and tills is at tin* bottom of - improve. i tlie plan. B it ifthe Ciiferoiiocs ind rmmeing been cheerfully admitted, by the iu At $2 50 if nai l in advance, $3 in si Pjintlij, or $3 50 if paid at the enh of tb year. . l'o subscribers who can real onlv Hi' Id very subscription will be considered as continued unless subscribers give notice to the contrary before the commencement of a new year,and all arrearages paid. Any parson procuring si k subscribers, an 1 becoming responsible for the payment, shall receive a seventh gratis. A Ivertiscments will be inserted at seven ty-live cents per square for the first inser tion, an ' thirty-seven and a half cents for each continuance; longer ones in propor tion. '■ 3*" Y!1 letters addressed to the Editor posl paid, will receive due attention. G 'V y iij.mo* a a a fi s l J F, a, 5 .1 vo.U'M.i w-v’ .u,.rn \.T rv-t^.i. '■.©.a’: HhWii..io?y kt.a d^p chojiki habitants of (Georgia, la possess an undoubted right to Lite ptfririane.i! o - cupation of their country; and if this admission were made in terms of kindness and with a view to good neighborhood, according to Mr. Jef- A ' if we should have heard nolhi.'g of the present scheme. Is it likelv that a a‘ coniinuni.y is to be for inn d lie Indians oi dilferent tribes, speri dilicrcnl languages, in differ’ ill sit ul civilization, .we to b<* crowd- gether under one govci i.merit. Tli have all l.ilhcrto lived under tbc iu fluenct! of their horoilitary customs in some cases, l>y cun- civilizatio..; bill licy a;- now to be cl ow (led (ogallief under .i government unlike any other Mini < - cr was seen. VVhet.Wr Feint:ess is to be employed i:i dig':sl ing e munici pal code for these congregated !.u •. uis and in mending il from session lo sea sion. or whether the licsidcnt oi the sou's promise embodied in a treaty; United States is to be tje sole legisla- sacii bad been the state of things, tor, or wliethcr the bisinoss is to be cisterns for the use oi tl.eit ...n . s. 'i'lu; vast pi n ic o! ib< V , will ultimately be inhabited. But it to j Ivouid require all the wealth, the en- l< rprize, and Uie energy, of Anglo- Americans, to make, a prosperous set tlement upon them. .Now, if t! )e judgement of travellers is to be re ded on, will sucli a teitlonient be made, nil the prc.surc of population renders it necessary 'i'i.e most im- ! pmlia! accounts of tlie Country, to' I lie west rd Missou i <>• d . I., ‘.. f; . anile in representing it as a ix ii-wllc ss prairie. W'tb narrow strips of fores! ' i ret s. i n the msrgin of ri\ o '1 good i; ill ire. 1, ■ I ad’ delegated to a civil oi military lect, we are not told. nd; w I v» i.al pro- j ed men, is siel i to he ! slnall. plan conceived in existing rireum- llie tenure of lend; w 1 at theMtlc to j 0. Gov stances, and the sole view f yielding individual property; what the rules of! to unrighteous anti unreasonable descent; what t lie modes of convey- i il tint 1 by parti:.!! 1 to be com: on 1* 4.6.1 TGTZ TF..150-T’ IJO.I.Wl'ml.l. tcfz i”su t*3o*a Tr, no tN.reScF.i, ict mn ft-o.iJM r*.>c»..i. m.MW&F.z r;; yw do; i rWAi.r, o-y.iT n^p o’uijn.i 1*46-1. claims, can be beneficial in ils opera tion upon tile Indians.'' A very imo!- ligent member of Congress from the West declared to the writer of th.^e numbers that the design of (he parties mice; what the redress lot giicvnn- os these mid a thousand other an entirely unsettled. Indeed. it is r.i easy matter to settle them. Su*.lii man as Air. Livingston ni.r, I n m a tj iv y z Ceo'a.i f* JAiK.S I. KTAi p.irj no.i.’Sdxi'T.i. *6.i t?'EiU3' j ,..a’trz d;ip wt-v" iw-u I’EJUO-f* no* Ooi-y-'C o-amij:' most interested was to destroy the J code for Lou IiuBaV.s, and not to save them. 1 do not vouch for the accuracy of this opinion; hut it is an opinion not con- sktna, though il oquiies jsm uncommon talents to d.; il BiFtrnltu; such uiL'ii as he could n form . ■ code far a heterogeneous mxtiwc of !=••. or two. or twenty, of Indians. rnmei anises to en iocompa rah'y 'cis ironi tin t now aii', 'them fniii the j present m • - 1 a re to a ecus i propel tv n;. cannot fulf a Hug Indians ■'IT to l.C? j) i e c.*s ivi:, :( w ii: be lo ("i :W C‘ illtliy. of ihe C i cr i-« '■ o.i.ue ■ . 3 ... ,. v , , , r usurpation'/ That it uasltjiv .. to , be such at the time, and vv as i evoi’ iia.inued to be kept? That c\ y man ol sense in the country tocsiciei < d the removal cf 183U to be one of the lew steps necessary to tbc utter ex termination of the Indians? That the Indians were avowedly consider ed ns children, and the word treaty was used as a plaything lo amuse Gunn, and to pat iiy grown-up child- icn among the wliitcs. ii the designs is not to be accom- I dished by a treaty, but by en act of ■' ogress. the finest ion recurs, '• i.eiit <; did Congiess derive the ccn- stitufie:. i power lo make an Indian St*::, 5.VJ miles long and 100 miles krone], in |be heart of this continent? Resales if Congiess has the constilu- lic-. i pcv.i’r to pass such an art, !.. s it not the power of r jx tiling the a< i? > s ii !.••< also tin- po\ ( i of mokinsr ; new !e:;i < L AGENTS Til? 0 Iv CI FO'L THE CI1E. PillENIX. hr; pereons an; autlioriz-jJ to siihsar ntions and jiayincnts for the ..... ]>!., ‘ ' Cln'iai.ioo l’ii.cm:. Messrs. Punier: S* Wit,i.:a.vxs, Market St. Boston, Mas-. Guo i u a M. T-iiacy, A geo I of th C. F. M. New York. Jlev. A. U. idi)d, Canandaigua, N Tiio.mvs Hasi’ings, Utica, N. V. I’aLi.iitn fc Cu.vvirfsa, tticti.non 1 Iter. James Cam;’a am., iJ aufort, I VVir.LlAM Nljui.r...t. It . ,, CJliail- 8. C. Col. Gsougs Smith, Staterville, M, .1 a a a m i a it Aus rii,, i'.Iob. if, Ala. Hev. Cyrus Miricsauay, ain h , , C taw Nation. C.i..‘t. Wili.iam iioamiTSo , ..ug Georgia. Cot. James Tur.;:, Belk-fonte, Ala. lined to one our pubHck men.* At any rate there is no unch iritnhleucss in saying, that Georgia is actuated by a denre to get the hinds of the Clwrvkeesj for she openly avows it. As little e;.n it. be doubted, that tin: plan in cjmvstion is our oi ii; 'Ai\ !c of \ : likes. . cm ire!in : g C C III; ..Hi: uul ent tic tc e l he ■ ca, rue p< jwer 0\ ci ■ he u l*i» .1) (i :c St a tes (.1 All; A : a t \ £ » IT 1 now claim the ri lit l'( ilil!! !g 0 ver tl .e four tm ;lli- 1 tii! \ , 5 Will it be said 1 l.:.t •1 ir.\ lat. d Ilk! inn cm n in [y \ M 1 een first < !.»!:• Led. -r.it It iins cinSjai moved," and a j genii iaw wen; Suitable admi.is is ii piob.hHe that u.i e leol i! usvineul .feel cot formed, low s!;. latois Ly I ou:- (lie a'fiits : ciuct. its guaranty. . u! ll.at l! -ic- c t on. ic:a, c; : in- leer li e In s' in a i.ev " ate? I.f 1 it !,e re- the Crecks d ill re. rived their No, 20 s A. Ii. Y. Va. . C. lion * suited to accomplish her desi is not common, for a parly'deeply to rested, to benevolent w party, whose en! Tiro tie!). 2. 'Mm n!i it t: h in most kind and t her nn- inteiests lie in difR •- to l;e *dislrust < !. sun agents oi the United Mates wilt. unite ail the cpiuiiiicattoiis of Suion and lloward? GTuid it; be strange ii some o! thorn v, cn skiiiiil, pm’ial. anil d tbc majority were mu on tne •ciiioiiui!,ms of ;■! JHlOl Ii 1 ..- till- . iUI Na , ,\ htloim: issldutc? and if •. ii inoic intent • i|i-..c, tin n on ,Mie even cmivrant ■mi ay !,c Iv ions vs In; ; : • it l: ’.11 v \ :«;>;■*, before ' lain raii < amt n v will 1 ■rested sp i 'Ii; ai (I (I to f: o exisU'i.’. • ale claims tie ! . crvd fin its. as ; cr ji.iisdi-tiin; a: ii •y of . j r.'.t.i. to evinree li t'claim. mtiiat e w or!' ! .n:n:ei<1 hide v i:h Ii.U'..li£ bt cause its ads 0 atns 1 ■]!, in;i.;li of O.ie ui l oc *. i nd; s V C . llw fail i'lCr Vi:!i : • vc (! ' \ :II • b R Ifnlure ;•;■ merosit y and kindi less; b e 1) K.-Spc* '.ill’ll *.N ill! ......... m • s. tir- !: 0111 t! •\* Hi \ f • of \.\\o ( - • sa v no* !;•: Ig 0 ill 10 present oi’ ! i pa l ions ctl JJle, tin:t tu,: j, i .tu i rite; omen - : Uu; .. <' ! !;i* »!;t pxm j of L• -nor. mul jus: ire. " Wbai al os tile tiidie.i! s u as ni logo lii ci till* i* ! t ‘ S or’ r '■*' • ; j Mlioul-.i \v | man wye C* su. V, ‘ refvis: in p-i ate d to pay ! life, to a 1 is bond ci;:..:ulieai, . .ni, ii CiiLl in tin des- rn. pursued, uou.d (ion lie i;i A be and impi in-’ ; fw- -ly '• ,. men. i • ! r i te at limit r : ml In did iwit dis i Zj> 2 4?-, I'J id. From tin National In'.yUigencor. p r a s l: n t c r r 13 in the co k Dirt on OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN'S. Mfi. XXIV. I hvv't; iiou’- arrived at.my (lasing trim jor ii wbicli I propose to e;:a;ii- inn tho pi m for th■* ramoval of 1I10 Lal ans oeyoii.l the MissiSaiHiii. :i 1 —a and . : a c k now led g ml b c j ‘ore j hundred times nver--and j oslcntatiousiy profe.:-. ! imsi : to in .ike a sreM manv l c. t his p! llJV’rj !j - * i'll far a O.ifd i’l 1 its principles and sanctioned by the Government, is as follows:— Congress will s.;l .apart a tru H of country west of tin; Arkansas t - i-rit < iy. nerliaps 150 miles iu mi!- s broad, and will guar tli** i>«h>e' nal rosi'.l nine of Indians.— LI, on this Ira 1 will Do eu'U’.cled ms - iilerou;', irilms, ho.v lesidunt indif ferent Slates and Territories. The •-sents to hi- old only h- s; i;;.’,ilie bnu-ir linen! to say, ‘ arc geacr.'US] fi talk uf presents Let Statu ii.. bond which lie!-, he !i,ul il nesses a vet sti ’llld I is." is: ed il»SO in i’ uiigee. ii' t!;e obii:rec disc reel, ns to deliver Wo:Fd ‘I not be per- Sir. be just btjr.re non s> pay your bond, and afterwards ” In; Government of the United follow the advice given by inis.. ms uJ lion S': 01 nit. (if CF.Ult' III Cli. ellor Kent to (lie Stifle of New York. Let our publick functiojKirics sav to the Ciierokees: ‘-The United Slates* arc bound <0 you Thesli- xpetivnee is in o i) greater ti.im that ol any pcrsn.'i w iio ii.-& been engaged m ioimiug or i'c om- menuiug the plan. -i. iiic iu;n siiuthwesterii tribes ro;u! are unwilling lo remove. They ought mu 10 ne confounded with ihe iiorlliern In inns, as tney are in very ililicrent ci;\ ninsl. lives. Tin? Uberr onecs. and Uductaws are ra, idly im proving llieir condition. 'I'lia Cni !;- asaws have lieguii to follow in the same course. These tribes, with the ■Greens, are attached to their j Dative soil native sod, and very reluctant to [ , ^ e y ii - 1 ou leave ii. Oi this the evidence is! guaraity ol a new country. d let it he said, in ; \ 0 "ly h that they a i - m e. c 1 avc the ■ ;; : nd 1 hero is a big it. r.t;il t!:. 1 they ■.. il f vain uheiitvcr il.o mi:.! their renov 1 r eiitly clarmuors :n- m,ike {rtud lc for the O- v- ■ :ICI, rout;. • ! ; caravans will he r ling in many din:.' ! grant Indians will and will have no common !; ion. \» ill it be possible j eiivumstau vs, to ei.foice against intni tiers? 7. Ii the Indians remove it is not jiossi i receive migrati n ■men. and c! >f i.r i-l-M- uiiulized, utl of mi- in siuii the Ian s . n cumstat s be attended v. it) much stillei 11 0. IndiiM s of sneaking diUcrcnl I in sit te of \r\ativn in. i would ea< h other, inevitable. 10. Another removal will soon he necessary. If u.-de-rants become poor, and are Irswisl’o: rural into var;a- ■',’it ! lilies, urges, and ali ul disc oura-p- ruin thi n , 1 mat . ,, satisla, tovy If a| must abundatu. No jieisou acquaint-. guaranty is prolessodiy made by a g and Ij(> 1 pu’lations are plain; and you haven ed .itliihe actual state of tilings can ; compact called a treaty it will be nice il as | perfect right to demand their literal deny, that the feelings of the great done at the very momr.v. that treaties mass of these people, apart from cx- with Indians arc declared not to be (raucous lnllucn. c. are decidedly binding, and I or the very reason that and strongly opposed to , removal, j existing treaties arc ind strong enough Some oi .’hem, when pressed upon the Beni will be diri.Iv 1 among tribes aiidj used; if ackiiwlcdged obligations were subject, may remain silent. Others, ’* " '' knowing bow little argument avails against power, may faintly answer, tii .1 ihev will go if they must Sc if a suitable \>luec can be Jo unci for than. i\ e cn bud terms w i h nd quarrels would he nil: it will he evidence enough fulfilment. Act your own judgement Consult your own interests. Be as sured wu shall never violate liea- !i s. ’ If this language were always that save may individuals, as Congress shall direct. The Indians thus .collected, will be governed by white rulers; that is, bv agents of the United States: till the time shall arrive when they can be safely trusted with (lie government of themselves. At present they are tw be treated as children, and guarded kept in troii! of cm . ry overture; there would be less suspicion attending advice, professedly given for th:> good of the Indians, ft is not mv To wtr.u : a:.,c-in eat province to question the motives of At the very moment, u ben they are individuals, who advise (lie Ciierokees to remove. No doubt mwnv of these advisers are sincere. Some of thenf with truly paternal solicitude. The ! are officious; and should beware Ijow United States will bear the expense j they obtrude their opini-ms. in a case of n removal; and will furnish imnlc- j °f which I hey are n o onndly ignorant , mmrts' of ngn'eiHturo, the mechanical and in manner calculated only to arts', schools^ and other means of civi-! woken the lightenus cause All hz ifion. Intruders will be excluded. Ardent spirits will not be allowed to pass (he line of dem iPkation. And. as a consequence of all these kind and precautionary measures, it is supposed that (lie Indians will rise rapidly in various respects; that they will be contented and happy in their new condition, and that the govern ment will merit and receive the ap pellation of benefactors. This is the plan; and the following considerations appear to mv mind in the light of ob jections to it .1. It is a suspieijus tsircuimtame, advisers, of every c la.-s. should begin their advice witli an explicit admission of present obligations. J. The plan in question appears to oh* entirely visionary. There, has saying this, they will add their con viction, that no suitable place can be found. In a word, these tribes v. ill not remove, unless *y compulsion, or in the apprehension of force to be used hereafter. 5. The Indians assert that there is not a sufficient quantity of good land, in (hie contemplated tract, to accom modate half their present numbers; to say nothing of the oilier tribes to lie thrust into I heir company. Even tlie agents of the United States, u ho experience amour i*ien to j have been employed with a special sustain it. Indeed, tbeorHiond plans of government, even tboiigL supposed to be founded on cxperc'iye gained in di'Tcreut circitinstancci, ha”c uniform ly and utterly failed. So wise and able a m m as M.r. Locke was totally incompenent. i>'.< (he experiment prov ed to form a government for an American Colony: But what sort of view to make the scheme popular, admit that there is a deficiency of wood and water. Without wood for Jcnces, and buildings, and foi shelter against the furious northwest ern blasts of winter, the Indians can not he comfortable. Without running streams, they can never keep live to bind the United States, confidence would such an he entitled? It is non pretended th-i President Washington, and the Senate of 1790, had no power to guaranty to Indians .'.he lands on .uhu n they were Lorn, and for wbicli they w ere then able to 1 contend vigorously at the muzzle of; our guns. Who can pledge himself, i that it will not lie ••oniemled. (cn years hence, that President Jackson, : and the. Senate of ISLJO, had no con stitutional power to set apart temto-j ry for the permanent residence of (he Indians? Will it not then he asked, Where is the clause in the Constitu tion which authorized the establish ment of a new and anomalous govern ment in tilt' heart of North America? Tito Constitution looked forward to Ihe admission of new States into the Union; but.does it say any thing about Indian States? Will the men of 1810 and 1S50 ho more tender of the repu tation t • President Jackson than the men of the present day are of the reputation of President Washin ten? Will they not say, that the pretended no benevolent treatment cun them and i! •-• *!' he said they as well be driven beyond t'e ;y Mountains a» once. I "V comfortably, it will prove, 'hat times as manv white people might live comfortably in their id; ; - s. Twenty-live years hence (here v ill ji'obahly be -1.000,000 ofourpopn- iive live la! ion W est of the Mississippi, and 1111v years i 5*000.000. than pres- slock; nor could they easily dig'wells treaty of 1830 (if a treaty should hence not less By that tinn- the sure upon the Indians ill be much greater from the boundless prairies, wbicli must ultimately be subdued and inhabited, than it would i:\or have hc.:a from the borders of the present Cherokee country. 11 ii existence treaties are not observed, (lie Indians can have no confluence iu the United States. — They U’’l consider themselves is paupers and medicaids, reduced to that condition Ly acts of gross op pression. and then taken by the Go\- ornment and slowed aw ay in a < 1 end ed workhouse. 12. The moment a treaty for io- moral is signed bv any tiibooi’ India.,s, on tin* basis ot the t ontempluicd plan, that moment sot h tribe is dennlionul- i:ed; for the essence of (lit? plan is, that all thee Gibes shall come under one governuicul, which is to bw atL

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Cherokee phoenix, and Indians' advocate. (New Echota [Ga.]) 1829-1834, February 17, 1830, Image 1