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CHEROKEE PHOJENIX AND INDIANS’ADVOCATE-
There were seven Creek men of them
trbo had had married his relations; hp
Says there were no other Creek tami-
lies living at Sand Town at the time
lie lived there.
his
CHUlfEOWAH. X
nlark.
Sworn to and Subscribed belore me,
the sacno day above written.
JOHN RIDGE, Acting
Clerk National Council, Cherokee
Nation.
SPEECH.
Sth of June 1802.
The undersigned deputation ot
Cherokee chiefs to Gen. Pickens and
Col Hawkins.
We are here on our business, we
Tiave to inform you we nave settled
,onr affairs with the Creeks, and now
wo address ourselves to you-—When
people have a little of a thing they love
to take care of it, we have hut a little
land, and we well know that you
know where it is as well as we do
ourselves, we shall rely on you two
alid on Congress for our rights. Y ou
all know and we know Where the la-
rupin sold the land; you know our
lines and you run them, the people
are over and going over.—I went to
.Congress last year at green com time
there I found Col. Wofford who
claimed the lands where he lives as
belonging to the Creeks, it does not
belong to the Creeks. It belongs to
the Cherokees—Wp ^
n f iv,p that Col. Hawkins
Secretary ot
was placed to take care ot them,
that he, with Gen. Pickens was to see
the Cherokees righted if any thing was
wrong in their land. I have taken
care of the people who settled over
the line, they have raised their stock
a id made a good deal off oar land.
The Removal of the Indians.
Our readers are, no doubt, aware,
jthat this disputed questidn, which had
produced a commendable agitation of
public feeling, and called forth the
manly and independent expression of
public sentine..t, is at length decided
by the Senate, in favor of removing
the Indians.
The Yeas were 28, and the Nays
19—majority 9. This majority Mr.
Brantly, of the Columbian Star* pro
nounces “respectable and decided”—
and we feel no disposition to dispute
their claim to that application. But
we think it due to the talents and con-
seientious integrity of the gentlemen
who opposed the measure, topronounev
the minority as equally respectable
and decided. We find it impossible
to conceal our astonishment at t^e in
solence which the Editor of I’m Star
displays in his last paper; white speak
ing oi that numerous and rtspectable
body of his fellow-citizens who dared,
during the pending of the above ques
tion, io differ from him in their judg
ment of tiie ease. Their private sen-
limeiils and public memorials lie de
nominates “lugubrious lorebodings ol
soil-constituted judges!” and the edito-
rial remarks of such Journalists as op
posed tne claims of Georgia to the
territory, he modestly calls “the for
midable denunciations ol petulant co-
temporaiies! 1 .”
We ueg the pardon of our sarcastic
and iitajestoiial brother,for calling his
on ihw ni'iv.simi ‘‘insolent.—
peouliar aspect of our Indian relations,
has thrown the whole Country into
commotion, drawn out the troops of
the Government, and occasioned a
parade and show of authority, that*
as times are, would hardly be exceed
ed were the dissolution of the Union
to be attempted.
From the turn the matter had taken
it was highly necessary and proper
for the sake of example, that the pris
oner should he punished, but we con
fess wS could not repress a feeling of
mortitied pride in reflecting, that a
single Indian in a whiskey frolic,
should be able to stir up the govern
ment to such an exhibition of its pow
er. Had the driver possessed a par
ticle of intrepidity, or had the passen
gers been governed by the ordinary
firmness of men, the stage would
have kept on its way, and the public
ear would not have been abused by
exaggerated talcs of Indian interpo
sition. We must not bo understood
in these remarks, as bestowing cen
sure on the government, or its agents,
Ibr their conduct in this unfortunate
alfair; on the contrary, we are a-
ware that the course they have pur
sued was rendered necessary by cir
cumstances which they could not con
trol.—Mobile Register.
may not the Indians take a similar
course?—Oppression can do much to
convince any people that they had
better remove beyond the reach
of iU power., but if it should not have
the desired ellect upon the Indians,
perhaps the suin of $500,000 distri
buted as bribes to their chiefs, may
induce those chiefs to sign the con
tract for their removal.
Respecting this business the- Onta
rio Repository justly remarks: “And
now, will not the people of (his na
tion demand of their rulers an account
of their unrighteous stewardship? for
Ibis has been done, not only with de
liberation, but against tho loud and
emphatic remonstrances, of every
sect and parly in the United States.—
Jt is due to the people of this state to
know, that their senators, Dudley and
& Sanford, have voted with the ma
jority on this question
New Hampshire, the only Jackson
senator from New England, has also
betrayed •his trust, and violated the
knewn wishes of his constituents.”
Dutches Intelligencer.
cuiiuuci on tins occasion “insolent
but we cannot recall the expression.
The true definition of the word,
“petulantis “saucy, perverse, wan
ton: —now we ask tiie good sense of
our reauwis whether u is becoming the
character ol a Christian, or a gentle
man, to heap sucu railing epithets up
on tiie ooiuuioiofs ol twelve or twenty
All
we wi3h
iviw is for tiiose who . oi the mast respectable religious, lii-
Little Rock, (Arkansas,) April 14.
Our South Western Frontier..—The
frequency with which our citizens, re
siding iu the south western district of
our Territory, are alarmed by the
savage incursions made upon them by
tiie neighboring Indians, and the many
it appearing that of those who had th
natural small pox, there died one itl
five or six, and of thosc-who were in. a
oculated, only one in fifty, the fer.
ment subsided and the practice of ino- l
culating was extended. Subsequent
improvements in the fiiiq.de of commu-
nicating the infection and of treating
the disease, made inoculated small\
pox fatal only in about one case in tvtt?
hundred.
The loss of lives in Great Britain 1
and Ireland, from 1770 to 1800, exl $
ceeded 35,000 annally.
• In 1798., Dr. Jenner made the dis.j;
coveiy of the benefits iff vaccinq
matter, in checking the influence of ;
the small pox, »*ul Dr. J} e ck give|
.tea
some instances of its happy effects. |
Diinnor the twelve years preceding 1
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DOZUEESTIO.
During
the practice of vaccination, 5.,$0o
died of the small pox in Copenhagen
W oodbury ol alone; whereas, since its introduction too
(1802) down to 1808, the deaths from • w«
it, throughout the whole Danish do* at
minions, were only 158. j»ef
Formerly 10,000 died anually in "**.M
the Prusian dominions, of small pox,. ’ ^ toi
In 1817, only 2,940. 1 po
In Bavaria, in 11 years, succeeding
the promulgation of severe laws re
quiring vaccination, only five deaths
happened from small pox, and 162,,
000 were vacillated.
la
jbave moved over the line, to move •
back again. Let them go into me
s-iuc of the while people we do!
not care how near they are to the lino
ca their own side, and their stock
may coma over after grass, this we
care nothing about and they arc wel
come to it. The people about Jack
"Wards must he moved, we will move
our peo*'’ awards tho old towns, and
you mo- move the white people ov
er to (heir own side, he is on Soquo a
•V .-.a of Chattahooche, Samuel A-
udir he is over the line, lie is a half
breed and raised among tbe white
people. He lives not far from Omw*
ne mountain —Old Y’onah he has a
white woman and lives at the fork of
C.iotee and Sooquo there are two
families with him, they must move off
Io their own people.
You must take all 1 say in friend
ship, I want things straight. The
doctrine from Congress ^ave been to
keep tilings right on both sides, we
abide by it and will assist to take care
of our part and to assist each other.
We told the Secretary at YVar we
had our land already small, little e
nough to spread out our stocks on and
to live on. We do not wish to settle
out ourselves, wp have yet a little
game, but when that is gone, the Se
cretary at War told us to spread out
on tiie Creeks and in tbe good land
with our stocks, this we shall soon do
We are spinning and weaving, Col
Hawkins told us to do this and we are
glad eff it, it is g«od, we have tried it
t a _ nAniltr 1a c il’pni
From the Albany Daily Advertiser, of
Friday.
Smull Pox.— We have read the
Annual Address delivered before the
Medical Society of the state of New
York, Fteb. 1830, by . T. Roineyn
Beck, president of the society. To
say lilai ir is able, would be superflu
ous, its author is too well known to
require our approbation. Tho sub-
citizens who have fallen victims to I ject of the address is the Small Pox, j ju^aYlhe"^^?the’sFate formation
he tomahawk and seal,»ing-kniie, are its history, and the possibility ol its and below the stratum of flint rocks
learluiiy impressing them with a dread ! extinction.
ol yet more direlul events. So great j He says that it is now generally con-
is this apprehension, that our citizens < ceded, that tuis disease was unknown
to the an ient Greeks and Romans.
The first medical account of it is giv-
Geological Curiosity.-A few iveeks
since, while the workmen were em
ployed in taking out the “girt” from,
one of the pits in the Harris Aline,
now owned by Messrs. J. & J. E.
1‘atton, three posts were discovered
in that
cessity
quarter are driven to the ne-
ofi bavin* spies through the
erary, u»id political journals in the Na-1 country about them, that timely no- j en by the Arabians. Rhazcs, a phy
lum/ uiki »ve may as^ Jdr. liranlly, bv lice may be given of the approach oi
unuse uuUionly did lie conduct ins siue | any savage lue.
of this controverted question, since all | Our legislature has repeatedly
who have expressed a different view memorialized Gongress on the suo-
the subject are unceremoniously ject of me danger to winch our citi
of
clinked as “self-constituted judges?”
We leave the Editor of the Star
and his ungenerous reflections, in the
in the niean time, to the disposal of o-
thpr “contemporaries” whom he in
cludes in the charge of petulance—-re
serving to ourselves tho privilege of
adverting to this subject in a future
number.—N. Y. Ban. Pen.
but we are not yet ready to spread
out in our settlements, as we have as
yet a little game.—Our lands extend
as far as the head of Appalatche on the
line, all westward we have to attend
to and be answerable for, and if finy
tiling belonging to the white people
should be over on our lands there it is
safe, and if our young people eommit
any bad acts it that quarter we are
answerable for them and to see and
keep it straight—Tiie Cherokees are
a people who take but little time to
fcettlle. their affairs, wo came have
settled ours with the Cowet tills and
Cassetuhs, and as to ours with the
white people we find no diffiiculty,
and we have every thing straight with
them, this is what wc told the
Creeks.
I came down to listen to the Croeks
and whit.e people, and to settle the
]istie business abont the people over
the line.
CH'TLEOWAH
QGOSETUH
‘CHUHADDOCtIH
YOUTARETUH
CHADOKIK.
Richard Roe Interpreter.
I certify the foregoing to bo a true
copy from the original,
ANDREW FICKENS Jr,
Trial of Tuskina.—Yesterday,
May 7lii —came on ‘.he trial ol the
Indian Chief Tuskina, arraigned be
fore tho District Court of the Uni
ted States, on a charge of stopping
and detaining the United States mail.
It appeared from the testimony,
that on the Gth Februaiy last, while
the mail stage was passing through
the Creek nation, about lour or five
miles to tho east of L.ne Creek, with
tho Messis. Clines and another pas
senger, Tuskina hailed thp driver in
broken English, requiring him to stop,
and as it afterwards appeared,^ wish
ed huh to take a message to Captain
Walker, on the subject of tolls due
the nation for passing through their
lands. Tuskina was very much in
toxicated, and the driver did not un
derstand him, or attend to his wishes.
Tne passengers spoke roughly to him,
and he taking advantage of a turn in
the road, crossed so as to head the
stage, and placed hiulself belore it.
He attempted to take hold of the
reins and made a pass at the driver
with a common Jack knife, though he
was not near enough to reach bun.
The passengers became alarmed and
advised the driver to stop. One 6f
the witnesses testified; that tliere
Were a number ol Indians in sight,
and some present, but that they all
condemned the conduct ol r I uskina.
He also declared that the stage was
not detained by the prisoner, but by
the extraordinary terrors and appre
hensions of the passengers. Alter a
detention of about ail hour and a half,
the stage proceeded on its route with
out further molestation.
A Bill of indictment was preferred
containing two counts,one for felonious
ly attempting to Stop the rnai 1—the oth
er for knowingly and wilfully oh- j
strncting its passage. The Grand
Jury ignored the first count, and tound
a true Bill on the second. On this a
conviction was had, and the Prisoner
was fined by the Court in the sum of
one hundred dollars.
Thus has ended an affair, trifling
and unimportant in itself, but which,
by the,ridiculous exaggerations of two
or three terrified travellers, and the
zotis are exposed, and petitioning that
an adequate military force may tie so
located, as to afford protection lo our
frontier Settlements. These applica
tions for protection have iio<. unly been
in vain, hut they have been
than in vain.. Not only have they
been unheeded, but the small milit»'-y
iv. oemelime occupied
Cantonment Tovvnson, has been with
drawn, hiiu we are left to the mercy
of the merciless savages. Our citi
zens are compelled, by turns, to
leave their farms to the care of their
wives and child r e», while they, as
scouts, are hovering round,the enemy
to mark the road they take, in order
to prevent more of their numbers
from perishing in their own cornfields.
How much longer are we thus to
be exposed?
It is confidently expected that the
President, who is better acquainted
with the merciless savage than any
of his predecessors, and who best
knows the surest means of defence,
will not suffer the present session of
Congress tb terminate, without
strongly recommending such mea
sures as will efficiently protect our
citizens .--Mvocule.
How will it be when 70,000 more sava
ges are placed in tbe neighborhood ol
Arkansas?
Ed. Cher. Phoe.
The Indians— Hie bill which has
passed the Senate providing lor the
removal of the Indians beyond tbe
Mississippi, appropriates $500, UOj
for that object, lobe used entirely at
the discretion of the president, or, to
speak more explicitly, to be used for
bribing the Chiefs of the Indian Na
tions, to consent to an exchange of
lands. Ne provision has been made
to protect the Indians from tiie opera
tion of the unjust and arbitrary laws
of Georgia ami Alabama, which are
intended to take efloot on the first
day of June next. By this act ol the
Senate, all existing treaties with tiie ]
Indians have been . iolaled, the nation
al faith broken, anil our national hon
or sacrificed. Those who relied up
on the Justice of the government, and
placed themselves under its protec*
i tion, are Wantonly abandoned to de
struction. £join<j, ■ however, state
| that the Indians will finally consent, (o
remove. Perhaps they may consent;
our fathers, when placed in a similar
situation, consented .to remove to the
west of the Atlantic.,,and seek refuge
in an inhospitable wilderness, rather
than longer endure- the iron scouj-ge
of European despotism; and why
sician at Bagdad, in the beginning of
the tenth eentury, is one of the oldest
writers on the disease, whose works
are now extant. He, however, quotes
earlier authors, from which it would
appear that it was introduced into
Egypt by the armies of Omari the
successor of Mahomet.
It is supposed that this disease was
brought into Spain about the eight
Kv llm fiGr !><■»•*'*
propagated over Europe. It was
first brought to this country imme
diately after its discovery by Colum
bus. St. Domingo, containing, by
computation a million of natives, was
in a few' years deprived of the whole
number, by tbe combined effects of
the sword and this dreadful epidemic.
Mexico lost, in a very short time,
upwards of three millions of inhabi
tants; and in several instances, whole
tribes of Indians, in both Americas,
appear to have been nearly extin
guished by its ravages. In 1707, it
destroyed, in Iceland, 16,000 persons,
being more than one fourth of its in
habitants. In 1733, Greenland was
almost depopulated by it.
The practice of inooulation had its
j origin in eastern countries, and was
introduced into Constantinople when
it was in general use not only in Asiat
ic countries, but in Barbary. In
1714, Dr. Timoni, a Greek physi-
sian, educated at Oxford, but resid
ing at Constantinople, first communi
cated an account of the practice to
the Royal Society of London, and
from this a knowledge of its advanta
ges came to be spread throughout Eu
rope .
The individual who more partieu-
larly attracted the attention of the
I British public to it, was Lady Mary
I Wortlcy Montague, the w'ife of (lie
English ambassador at Constantinople.
While there, in 1717, she caused her
son to be inoculated, and be had the'
disease mildly. When she returned
lo England, in 1722, she had her
daughter inoculated, and this was the
first case in that country: it was suc
cessful. Afterwards, six criminals
which contains the gold. These
posts were sunk perpendicular in the
sD.te, & about 4 feet from each other,
in a triangular position. Tho pojftjf
were dug up and examined, and r
to be of post oak timber. .■
r . i 1 , . . . Ai diameter;
leet long and ten inenr . > *
(lie lower end- '* " ,e P 0!,s
sharpened. ■"'? lho “I’l’f i 5 . 1 ^
i„ ored to be sawed off trans-
in the sides were
[j.Uy; in the sides were mortise
holes, together wfth the marks of an
axe, too apparent to be mistaken'.^
From the position in which these
posts were found It would seem that
thav lo'i w-miccl the legs of a rude f&-
ble or bench at some former period.
As a proof that no modern cause coujfd
have placed them where they have
now been found, the ground is elevat
ed and near the creek, and beneatV
any alluvial deposites of soil; yql
when and by whom they were placed,,
must for tho present remain a sutff
ject of philosophical inquiry and spec
ulation. At many other mines stiqks
of limber and logs have been found,
in and on the slate formation, together
with a variety of articles, formed by
the hand of art, such as Indian pot
tery, Indian arrow points, (made of
flint.) and pieces of wood, in various,
shapes.—JV*. C. Spec. <§■ West. Adv.
Off':''
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DREADFUL! DREADFUL!
A young gentleman from Nicliov
lasville informs us, that there was a
lady murdered near that place last
Friday--a young married lady tho
wife of Mr. George Caldwell, to
whom he was married ahont (iva
months ago. Mr. Caldwell is act
ing sheriff in Jessamine county, and
was out upon business that day. A
little while before his return at night,
Mrs. Caldwell was discovered lying
upon a bed—lifeless. There was a
handkerchief wrapped about her neck;
upon removing it, it appeared she had
been strangled with a rope, the mark
was plain upon the neck, and there 1
were oilier marks of violence aboot
the head—the hair was torn, and
one ear was wounded. A negro girl,
a servant in the family, was suspected
of the foul crime; being arrested and
confined, she made some confessions,
which with other circumsta^'s
lishes her guiU
* ne wretch says
. , r i ,i m I ^h.C7i assisted her. If so, it is to
mule- sentence ol death, werfe offered be hoped they nIso may be brought to
the alternatives, of suffering accord
ing to ineir sentence, or of submitting
to inoculation. They embraced the
latter were inoculated by Mr. Mait
land, (the physician of Lady Monta
gue.) and all passed favorably through
the disease.
In America, the practice w'as first
introduced by Dr. Bovlston of Boston,
on his own child. In six months, he
inoculated 244 persons, but of these
six died. When the death of an ino
culated patient occurred in England,
there was much ferment. Inocula
tion was denounced by the press and
from the pulpit But on investigation
justice. The girl had been kindly
treated, and it is not known what
feelings prompted her to so horrid an
act, unless it was the hope that she
might be sent back to Nelson county*,
from whence she came with Mrs. C„.
upon her marriage; or possibly, the
fear of correction, with which she had
been threatened, for insolence.
Com,
Lightning.—A very singular iiv
stance of the awful effects of this
powerful fluid, occurred in the adjoins
ing county of Columbia, a short time
ago. As a Miss Smith wa» ridiraf on