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ons, ami astonished him with Hie thun
der of artillery. Lest he should be
too much daunted by these warlike
spectacles, he caused the musicians
to perform a harmonious concert, on
tlreir instruments, at which (be Cas-
cique was lost in admiration. Thus
having impressed him with, n wonder
ful idea, of the power -i&ndhveedw-
nients of his new allies* he.ijfjidad him
with presents, and permitted, him to
depart
Caret a returned
to his
ther act of aggression, probably of a
more high-banded and oppressive de
scription than any that has preceded
it in the whole progress of ’this crintro
le frit ories, and hjs daughter remained
with Vaseo Nune2. willingly for ir.s
sake, givih| PpKer family and native
home. They were never m. iV rried,
but shc considerctl herself a', his wife,
as she fCiUly. wds, according to the
usages of her own co-jr.try, end he
treated her with fcip.uness,, allow ing
her gradually t6 t>'c quire a great influ
ence over hi ml'-.—(Irving.)
1 envy hoV the man wfco $an read
this *R ffe- ting passage, without min
gled Emotions bf ailinlratiort apd pity.
V* ho in this ease displayed 4h e uttri-
hut'as of savage barbarians? Was it
ihe daring marauder, who violated the
rules of hospitality . Wps iumbthe
gtmefOus chief, who opened his heart
and his house with confiding hospital
ity to the military stranger*—who.
when betrayed, appeal! to his treach
erous guest, with all the "manly, sim
plicity of an honest heart, mingled
tvith the deep emotion of a.bereaved
parent and an insisted sovereign—and
who with the magnanimous patriotism
of a Brutus, gave up his child, a young
and beautiful maiden, to purchase the
liberty of his people? Or was if tjie
Indian maid adorned with graces, that
could win the.heart of that ruthless
sbldicf, “-wiliingly For his sake, giving
up her family and native home,” dis
charging with devoted fidelity, the
duty of the most sacred relation in>
life, and aqhieytngby her ttimnis, and
' feminine attractions, a complete con
quest over her country’s. cqhq«c/r
or ? . , ■
At a much Inter period, and when
the christiar. world was far more en-
■lightened than ip the‘days of Hernan
do-Cortes, the British commenced
their conquests in India; yet tve do
not find that the superior light which
they possessed, both religious and
political, had any other effect than to
mrke them more refined in their cru
elties. They acted over again in the
East Indies, all the atrocities which
bad been perpetrated in New 1 Spain,
with this onjy difference, that they did
not pretend to plead the apology of
relegious fanaticism. The Spaniards
•attempted to impose oh others, arid
may possibly have succeeded in many
instances in imposing uponihems&ReS,
the belief that they served Godin
Oppressing the Heathen; for their con
quests were made in an intolerant
age, when such opinions were preva
lent. But the English !? a <l no s ” c )l
nations; for ibntC of their hesi |1<,
Ots and soundest divines had lived
previous to the conquest of jndia, and
the intellectual character af the .na
tion was deeply inbued with.the prin
ciples of civil and relegious liberty
before that period. The love of m6~
ney, and of dominion, Were tpoic only
incentives; and tfiiey pillaged, tortur
ed,' murdered, ifid enslaved a people
as civilized and as gentle ns (he Mex
icans, without the shadow of an ex
cuse. The disclosures made before
the British PnrlirAent, at the .trial of
'VVarren Hastings justify these asser
tions, and subsequent.! events have
shown, that our kinds men * across the
water have improved hut liftle in
,;Snch is indeed UiCJw.,
the reader will learn from the fol
lowing documents, Which W« find this
|Hprniii| in; the Cherokee Phtehix of
the 4tl» ius'a»it. Heretofore -the
President nriaiblr defenders,..have atp
tempted to disguise the ajgcncy of the
General Government in advancing the
ft tth',J lowed schemes of Georgia, by
ft pretended tenderness of epnscierice
in respect to State rights. But the
mask' is novv'dropped. The govern
ment of Georgia, equally cruel and
unprincipled, haying thus fair by the
covert aid of the President , succeed
ed in every step df its 1 opprftssivi
course, was at length determined tc
deprive the Indians of their.spiritual
guides and eomforts-4-their directors
in the march of civilization, and the
ministers of our holy religcon. But
one of these, as a matter of conven
ience, had been commissioned several
years since,* as the Village Postmas
ter; and Georgia Cpu|d not arrest,
manacle, and.throw him into prison,
for fhe crime of preaching the Gos
pel to the Indians, without swearing
to support her unconstitutional laws,
unless his commission should bo first
taken from him. And this has been
done. The weak and passionate m;u\
who in an evil hour has been called
to preside over the destinies of this
nation, has yielded tit once tolhe re
quest cf Georgia, arid now stands be
fore t He American people, the naked
and undisguised abettor of a measure
of cruelly which ihu3t cause every
American who possesses the soul of
man, tc blush and hat)g his bead. Yea,
leilow citizens; The Minister of the
gospel—-the messengers of peace on
ehrth, and good .will to men—the
METHODIST alike with the
PRESB YTERLVN --are to be seiz
ed anil incarcerated, or driven into
banishment, not only by the PER
MISSION, hut by the ASSIS
TANCE of GEN. JACKSON! YVe
call iipon Christ fails of every denom
ination—YVe call upon the American
people, as one man—Jo raise their
voices against these tyrannical acts
—acts, which, if allowed to be en
forced, withhout visiting the heads of
the authors with the strongest legal
manifestation of the publie indigna
tion, will cover the American name
with reproach in the eye of man, and
render the nation accursed in the eye
of Him who hears the ravens when
they cry, without whose knowledge a
sparrow does not fall to the ground,
and who has said-—“vengeance is
MINEfAND I WILL UEPAV!”
From the National Journal.
THE CI1ER0KEKS>
The article which follows, -taken
from the last Cherokee Phoenix, is
deserving of more than ordinary at"
tentiort r ‘T? 10 -progress ol oppress-
it."” appears le “* r ,T<|
In its course; and if it has not alrea
dy reached its acme, it. behoves, the
country with one voice to demand
thaf ft shaft have an end—that the
rights of free-born men shall not, uh-
der any pretences, be trampled in
in the present en- from the Cherokee newspaper, which
not be attempt
lightened, day. Jh’or tins sum,wary
mode of" BUimrjssoing the freedo^ of
“speech,Dft Jwfi, as annihilating
liberty/'mf the press, ; we have now
}. look within
' v QnJbe au
to a nof
w»„.„
'‘f-rest-.
is 4. Mi
lan and a
e\ ufitli the
.it yypMl^ppea}'
oqr own; free c
ll.lori^y of Mr. J :
education, oj jnh
4| bi, 'fyi ' vho v
Delegation, re&i
s§me time^ duri
learn, that with thrift o
ed by (he Georgia Giia
Jfobn YVe*|, a . young ge
CheYofcec* Viyho hr char
iw.e e/ $isihg insolent language
the Guard. “Those four,” says
saw last night; unde?
guard, Chained together iqtytfiis, mil
J'a?ton0mth ■locks.** AgaPr Mr^Uo*.
vid• Vafin; .ft- member ,yf tl)e Chey
Senate,. and Thoniftft Wontlard are
also arrested—not allowed to know the
reason of. their arrest till they arrive
at Head-quarters, a,distance of 70
or 80 miles from their respeetiys)
residence.” Mr. Woodard, we arc
a fie.rtvards tnjd, as .well as a ,Mr,
AicRpy, v/as imprisoned for acting
as . Chairman .of {republic meeting.
This is. freedom W speech with a
vengeance! “As matters go,” adds
the Phoenix, “it \^, { &o^n become
dangerous for any pne to open his
month; and utter bis: opinions.” But
the liberty of the press is also to be
jeopardized. A Mi- Byban to bo
“refoijtued” from the Rost Office at
Spring-place, the result of which,
the Editor expresses, his fearfr, will
_ lie was a deputy postmaster.,
officer under the
i UViited Slates,--
after wo rdj
and. til ere loi,e
'£oV#hni]finl of;the Dhited States
Shortly,afterwards, Mr, YYoiP|ietiler
wits ^ from; tjbfci bost'Afl&e,
and aitothef, person’ ftjipomtedTp’ia
place- ^BeingalHrs, by ‘the alsistaht^i
' naliftnaI government* stripped,
of his^flSiia^chm'ftciter, bo. was pr
pa red fonjfae unrestrieted' verrgea n<
of the iaw;s- of.Georgia. 'By a letter
'5 8
be to discontinue llife office and mail;
route from the head of Coosa to tW
Former place, which would close the
only channel through which they eai*-
ry on,their correspondence, and for
ward their papers., A moi>e ready
way to efTect, (Iris object, would be
to establish a censorship of the press,
q.Za Charles X., suppress the Cher
okee Phccnix,' and thgs preymil their
wrongs from being made known to
the world. On jtho eases ofjudividu-
al or pe.rsonal persecution—and that
of Mr. VV 0 r-;e3tcr, situated as he is,
iv.ilji his wife that caigiot bn remov-
cd, but at the expense of her life,
is well worthy of commiseration—we
have not touched: the. flagrant abuse
of broader rights-the question wlielh
er the Gen. Government is ^agued
in their destruction—whether non-in-
terferance, or «nt least apathy on its
part can be justified, is what we
ivould hold up for public attention,
And again we would ask, by what
laws are the inhabitants within the
Cherokee territory, whetherii^tives
or mere residents, Jo be governed?
If not by the laws of the Cherokee
Nation, shall it bo by thg fundament
“Re 'jutmi
bills, and martial laiv afcknowletlged
to exist among 'heffi, and such praC-
58 to be tolerated in this yet hap-
land of freedom? ^ ;;
tices
py
From the New York Advertiser.
he dust; and this pi a. natipn iwhere,
hove all dlhet/.Jihe.j-ty , iU icj fVeedoin
lave hithfti to been it3 nrhln an d
their.conduft towards tlteilr wretched
-UepAnlenfcips',,,
ao
have hithRrto, been J(3 pride
boast. 1 l>e St^te- rights of Georgia
not to djscuss.v but merely
pmnt to the pulioy. Q ftho Geue.-al
juVcriimertt, and ask if if he hnepri
lv hen the law of Congress,! passed
, . ■ , **«n under the admin-
at the firsi sew...., , v r or |j S0J j
istration of the General ’
authorizingJiim to take measures for
th(5 removal of the southern Indians
beyond^ thq Mississippi, .was. ^er
disciission, and, aftpr..had. been,
published, it yyas j^pt op|y .approved
by the syepphantic and .se.rvji
f^^Wthe p$J^ US j^^ q
tA jV was ..prono^ceiT.. liSSal
and humane, And whpn it was charg
ed With hqing a nart of a jchem« tn
may throw some light upon the sub
ject, and perhaps,render it expedient
for Ijip degraded supporters of this
unprincipled policy, Jo come out a*
add the weight of a nation’s loins
the hand of the oppressor. To Jiid.
YVhrtel one ofwe best friends of |3
•President, We-shall look with coj
dence, for some better ’measures
the lndth|n department, and hope
a mori?honouiable aod equitable slal
hority ,x»f the
“-.sufing iti the
hat die was
ground
from 4;,G»U Sanford, da ted the 28th
of May, Mr. Worcester and the
Rev, Mr. Thompson, Jv.pre warned
to depart in ten days front the Cher
okee territory, on the penalty,V In
case pf Disobedience of , the. ordef of
ch punishment as tile
gift provide—which we
infinement at hard |a-
Col. San-
ord’s ' letter was accompanied by a
letter from Governor Gilmer of
Georgia to fae^pf these gentleman,
informing them A . they,, must quit the
territory, and giving them, to under
stand thdf if they remained in it,
puAtshttjent would'certainly^follow.
A fetter from Jonh Ridge? .a Cher
okee Chi&f, ^to ' the Rdifdr of the
Cherokee paper, stl^fes that four
other persons had'beftn arrested under
similar pretences, and were chained
together in pairs, Ynd fastened with
locks. It also appears, that the
Georgia officers were scouring the
country, and picking up every body
they could find.
■ The points to which We wish to
turn the attention of our readers are
the mildness, justice^and humanity ol
the policy, recommended' by General
Jackson towaVtj8;Uuj |> Cherokccs, and
the justice tmi^mit^naHimrty of. the
state of Georgiav irrtheir Attempts
to plunder the Indians of their lands.
It is perfectly obvious, from the cir
cumstances that tho moment it ujs
found that Mr. YVdrcester could not
be held.a prisoner by Georgia, be
cause he was an officer of the United
States, that he vvas displaced for the
purpose • of removing that obstacle
to the vengeance lH Georgia,^tiial
the administration and Georgia per
fectly understood each oilier; an*d
this evidence, if further evitlen-e
PN-: m
■Wmifiito . V ■ > —- 4
.» wiv^romJhe; New. York American
‘ * Georgia and the Cherokees.—]
progress tin oppressioir of ®eo'
the fOrheairance under suffering
the ' Cherokees, seem to be iivf t
expirirn^m* The- extract- made
day from the- last Cherokee BhiSfc
details a. new series of outrages p
pulrated under the authority’ of Ge
,;gif£vWid this time,: too, the Preside)
ofi tbe United'States appears oper,
asjJm^mxiliary of tbo- oppressor; ai
Jrdftr Jlyit yjnclictive persecutii
lit nof lose a single victim, I
rumali6sion .of United States' P
masfer, which even, by the adm:33ii
of Geqrgia courts, protected the i
dividual who held it, was withdraw
and the obnoxious person was immi
diatftly seized. We hope our rcas
ers -will jive attent^ to the stall
menls presented to-day; for in
judgement they set foyth/tlie moi
flagrafit acts yet 'committed ogpii:
the rights solemnly guarantied to ll
Chenkees; and committed loo, f(
the firsf
Uon
the Uni
openly under the snnl
id of the President'
tcs.
We m
ders to, tl
ew York Observer,
the attention of our rej
isgraceful proircdL,
al lawn of the Re iublic, and are gag- could hfrvte been Wanting, unanswer-
gmg laws, habeas corpus, suspension rfbly establishes the fact of co-opera
tion on the part of the national Ad
•mrnhrtralion with thastate «f Geor
gia, -to -enable 1 the latteK'to' 'flrivei
these defenceless .people from their
country*' ;And if established^what
honest 'man will diave the’ hardihood
to justify such a decfeitAil arfd dis.q
grateful course on the part of the
national government? '
"•♦a cool and? insidious plofi-on
MV'&'r ’ - ^ •' , *HDwd i rfel na-
the part of a
t ion, to deQ||u|f on^ pi
defenceless, find helpless roce.4
who want nothing, but t»«i.
drench theii;. slbil ih hi
of the aiithorittjps of Georgia, an a:
count of Which"wo have copied on oi
last page from the Cherokee Phccni
It wiij be seen that the inissionarii
of the American Board have been r
quired to leave the Cherokee natr
wiihinjen days under penalty of il
prisonment for 4 years (this vve b
lieve is the term fixed by the law)
a Georgia jail! It will lie seen al
that tho General Government base
operated with the authorities ol Goo
gia in this high-handed tyranny, .1
dismissal of Mr. YVorcesler from t
office of postmaster bring obvious
intended to remove the difficult:
which stood in the way of his expi
sidn from the nation. YVhat coin
will now be pursued by the missic
cries ivc have no means of detenu
trig. We trust that in their prest
trying eircumstftnces they, and t
Indians also, wilt be remembered
the prayers of Christians througho
4M iamk Help must come from C
tbr va'n is the help of man.
ood, in
From tbe Somerset Herald.
Tho Cherokee Plicehix of the -
iust. (a paper published by Indi
in the English and CherokccManguagi
and rCgulaily received by us) co:
tains some fnrllier proceedings oft
ftulbofities of Georgia against t
white settlers in the Cherokee N
tidn. - The ‘^iutnaiie policy adopt
By * Hie general, government for t
Civilisation of the Indians,” has hitl
Crtoqiermittcd if not authorized 01
8’rtH»»vijBs and others to settle amr-J
them, to instruct them in rch'igion,
the arts and sciences, and by degree
ftbout civilization,, wtych
tl:
its fii
, i^ie^toutdi had af one tidle se'vO-
al colonies; but our information >e
specting tt|em; iS%»Vi|^agre;;;jbi- tl
worthy money making peojil^ h
al ways had tho kn&ek pf keeping
oiVh counsel, and hafC ptiblishCd but
few of the' records
YYe know —
fv us that
’’•t's • « ., ”‘“w from
overhme'nt hau in
^foundation up to) the time GenC.
J^ckstyi yvas put in power. ^ But no-
•,vlipje,pplicy with regard to th
ians must be changed, becaus
4&pigjA wapts their lands. Shelia
extend^l ^r laiys over the India
SOftOlfy^rajsed tcoops in - defiance ol
‘'"^swtlljon and is now scout inf
country and driv
all tl\g whites, missionariei
rd[er |o leave notxB
jp was made to tin
pepi for 'the remova
•j which was accor
. ^ given Jbuiji ape
issionaries to quit the country
tvithin'Jen days or sufler the poualty
olfitjhfejctwf tvhioh years im-
t-iffiT. The
rsewit.li
assumes
viajures and
almost past en
ip^Jnckso« r . far
^ ,J “.ty4vW»njks