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4£ial
me need, amt'
whites gained the coi
ty. fef » ' '
In - order ts
in 1682, iir
toj toft
W
olatron:
> ' m
Mississippi, W
French, 'lived
dian* for a whole
as the “Long Kfiivfcs**' - T9r; - T ,-.
grate to the Country, hostilities com-
confinu
l>-the while men a
Indian, in many respects was
IninT'lo Otyoy a bare sut
greatest luxury,” ,(VU. It
f*ge ids.) ;Thi§ passage
no comment; so strongly
♦rasi with the aeeounlg
wnv settlements, a ail so
display the fruits of e^fe rwn ». pnw
equitable syatt m of dsW Administra
tion. “ W '.
,, The. other instance which we shall
adduce, ire deem to' be particularly
S *ito, as .it' uccuredat the same
ad, under similar circumstance,*,
among a people the veryreyersu
of the Quakers in ehanicter/jand who
had uot the slightest communication,., w .„. ... 8 „
or connexion with tl*cm The French ^haaeiacia,»and to
settled at K tsLaskia previous to the
year 174,0. We cannot fii the pre
cise date; but there are deeds now
oq record in the public offices at that
place, which hear date i« .1712, and
it is evident t|)at several years must
have elapsed from the first settling
of the colony, before regular transfers
of real estate could lake place, and
before there qould have been officers
authorized to authenticate such pro
ceedings. It, is the general under
standing of the 'old French settlers,
and we suppose the J'j*et to lie so,
that Philadelphia, Detroit, and Kas-
kaskia, werh settled about the same
lime. The French in Illinois, lived
upon the most amicable ,(grips with
the Indians. Like the Quakers, they
, and might disregard, or cir-! claim, in the language of one not very
1
-vLiyL-
vmvvv’ inWwirui «r*
rSnkv#bestf H eontrlc|s and
, s«m# thempWHt MvehM
oiM^plhw t.tv'UM- MMsi "
I "■ Mmktirn*
.... ii’^rav^ tpieptlhh,
of the Uo»tt*l£tnte*?
must be reCOlfbctetl
prejudices are m6r*
and most lastm* a|rt
people, i Those slrtr ....
ed tribes whose only occuitat
war-and' hunting, haul d6ii
tradition with singular fid
generation to generation. The only
mental culture which Jjife children
receive, consists in repeating
ei
which
. i . tsfciTftig \o them
the adventures of their fathers, and
tlie inians mind islhns indelibly im
pressed with all «lhe predilections
and- antipathies ’d^th^pirbiltjl.wl^le
their traditions ate spread froni triiga
sm
to tribe, by the historical tales
songs,• repeated at fffelf greai^odn.
oils. vAiuong ' them tbo, revengi ^iif a
hallowed principle, sucked 1
kept - up g mutual interchange of jk» mother’s «Wr anff Sift
li-IUti.llu n flh nuo 4 nm. I « 1. .. - !a I. . I • I 1% m . ; t
friendly offices, Ifeating them with
kindness and equity,- and dealing with
them upon terms of perfect equality.,
They even inf ci*arried with them —
which the Quakers could net tlo,
without being turned out of meeting
.!—apd showed them in various ways
that tb«y considered them ns fell#iv
creatures, having .a parity of inter
ests, itfhidlpjgli; and feelings,- with
their ode of honor, and tjie pr£c
of their religion; the' wound fiifj,
upon.the father rankles iit the. Mt)’
of the c.hil(k ^d-is^mly pealed
recoinpumiet. i,»*hfsdev # fdta...
inflicted. We iriicl 1 ^ th^ft/ihat
owe the untnqwy ’ otajg-of * fc.elli
‘vhi^exists b^%wi tl^lti(iiaus an
,j|j|pd« treaties with ll
_ ^ ess, Congress has passed laws
to jrfguJatq-intercourse with theilt,
tor those treaties, »iid the \.\^
' i trfken a solemn oath to 1 ”
the Vcatis#ai|*HieH ws
5n( lips not, exeegtyadthese
laws, but W permittee
(btdted. In doing this be
BW1I* ou ^‘‘ r
... .. nt consulting any ptliee
constitutionalbranch ot the. govertt-
mest, yielded a portion of. nfltionol ju
risdiction, uniformly exercised by al!
Miq^rodfedesrcJrS. and the ,wl^ole gov-
etoawm^htid innetfoned h^ the sever-
at states, tt till* demand of Ueuggia-
Is the power to annul treaties, , any
more than the pfnver to make them
vested ihf' the’ President,;. «nd is. He
competent to ttf&ngtUr laws, any more
thandle is fo snuct them?
vOa which^ifle soever the ‘question
mny-ihnally be determined by the
compedent tribunal, the Pr^si.Jent lias
no more authority, by the constitution,
to decide it, than has a private citi
zen; and hC has no more option, in re-
lo’ifijm-i
icsseacjt
l.lft i colol
w
if--u>ii g^ 1
Tere wny a, , ,
.11 was small, and being on the oppo
site side- of the rivet from the tow n,
could have afforded little protection
to the lattey from an attack of the
Indians; the only other fortress was
flt Cabokia, and is described by on
farly writer as ‘hio way distinguished
except by being the* meanest teg
bouse in the town.” The villages of
Pf^irie de Rocher and Saint PiiiKp
KCti .
Hot isqse iliasr th^ ' Iurllan
S. it is called, 4ta'l y #ot 3 suf.»
’ u»ucJr<lfebalel' ' lle-
^tq^hiatmiwti rWidiifiiiwiM^ted the!
lis' ussiui! of abstract pi incipitifse*!*n :
tCd, rather than cleaicti
SsjatT-i r —.^-tiyvuuti/
sue; ' The question seems to qs
to be one of positive Compact, uud
nothing else, Have conn acts becu
made with the t^hciokecs by the
pe had no military defences. Vet
Uniltpi Stales? are they Coiistituttoujil
«n>d if bindhig. wliat part/e*
are concluded by tlrcrti? and who is ‘,o
decide whether they are binding or
not? These, as it seems to i a, are
the questions to be considered, and
by*the answers to these, the conduct
At' I llA I maoakm ... » — ..I 11.. A _ L
tve do not hear of burnings and scalp
ings among the early settlers of that
region. Now and then an affray oc-
cured between a frenchman and an
Indian, and occasionally a life Was
lost; but these were precisely the
kind of exception* whieh prove the
troth of a general-rule, for such ac
cidents must have been the rwult of
departures of indiyiduaJs from thole
principles of angtji which were ob
served by tlje respective eommunities
to which they belonged- The Frenoh
were expert in the uye of fire arm#;
they roamed far and -wide info the
Indian county ami it wpphr hove
been a strapge anomaly nn dft history
of warriors am) hunters, bod no per-
sonal conflicts ensued-, . But these'
. y* dld not - Uhe - geneVal
lisrmotiy. The Indians even suffered
thcinsclvfs 40 be baptised; amt at-one
time'® large porti* of tbe Kuskaskfa
tribe professed t‘ ~ ~ ‘
ot’Jhe federal government and that of
Georgiai ** to he judged
That tni* contracts or treaties have
been made, nobcdy’ denies. If they
are constitutional ai;d binding, they
conclude Georgia as tiuly gs *hfy do
the United States, for gyeey »i.ate
!hdP» tomiripiods.
the siaves-ch '
pride. They offer INPRISONED AT
i*Tes, suoh prot««f ' “ •*
<2i)t6ri
H , „ give- to Ismbs*—
^U>yqm^lllg,Uwn^l; , ^; - »d'
rfvu
^vlngplist. -
PROGRESS OF OPPRESSION.
I tn<ilte I tllO . iLa* 4'ItAnnlrA.t'
Under this head, the Gherokee
ooulains tbe rob^oihed «^;{-
H; presenting them to file
istiao public, w e are conit rained
to make a IV jyr eHssks. We Uelidte
jjiai the course pursued by the Got*
eniment of Georgia towards the
tiAne, jresiding^an fiovereign t ribes
imtions, within the, chartered Inn
tios * 4,4 ‘Hj* j|| x1 '
^tafe, is higlily oppressive
,i IhbL flcqi'gia* aided by ethr
_ral r govern*)ant; shoeld pUrsue a
iui*se so evidently calcufalFd to op
pose the progress of civiiivatioir and
Clinstifluity among the Indians,' Ot a
t inte when the fostening smtids of Hea
ven were decidedly resting upon be
nevoleut and missionary efforts a thong
them, we eannot but View' as *ti sin
peculiarly grievous amt offensive to
Godf -- -
When we sea our nation beginning
to desecrate the Sabbath; toplight,
her faith with’!hoSld hatiotii that might *
have crushed, while^thuy. kindly era-
died . her infancy; when -we «ee
any of the States, encouraged liy tile
gard to the execution of a duly enac.t — -— ’ v”” w ""«s« *■ »"•
ed law, than a sheriff has in reference R*™™ government, as we fuliy be-
r-to the execution of a writ. lieve, oppressing the weak and de-
j Tlte ortly occasion on which the ! we tremble in view of a
at.such, has any thing to | merited and fearful retribution! Such
sayvaffixit iHfes principles of a “law is ®‘ ns unrepented of, must be punished!
when a hill is sei>t to him from Con-! would therefore asH on Chris-*
_ gress for-his signature. - ' If he thinks •J' 31 . 1 * 01 ever y > nametb-ffijhyfervent-
dh^Ficm ,it unconstitutional, or even inexpedi- i *y unceasingly that*.justice may
s3B ™*‘' / ‘ i o«gh'thti Utter some doubt) he i ! ,e do ««» t0 the oppressed, and that
constitutional right to rcfbse impending w rath may be averted
nature. If, however, the two °ur guHty lan<J Cju'istians!
again i>a»* the bill by major- l his is no time to^sleep! Depend up
wo thirds in each, then the ~ ’* * ’
^becomes a law, in spite of bis ob-
ai|( j he is just as completely
jjhis o ;th and hfs duty to ax-
(OtfpB^he is any other law. All
rthel'tflemur on his part is at a legal
c 4\pd; and the- moment he refuses to
execute the'statute', sets it aside^ or
«reatstil aS noil, he assumes the juii
t/tartm tt-a
On?* the constitution give him this
jiulicial power; or dues it intend that
he sliafl have two
have two velos—two chances io
interpose His injections to the doings
of Congress?
it
Frbm the Cineinnatti. Ar*erioan.
HIGH HANiiLD OPPRESSION.
In one df opr jaie .numbers we
stated, that’ the. R^v. jSamuei Wor
cester had beep removed troin the
Tost Office at Nevy, Eehoia, in the
(>herokee country. We learn from
the last Chefokee, Piiocnix, . that the
removal wai to make way for the ar
rest of Air’; Worcester. .. Goveihhr
Giltubr addressed a letter to him,
sibling 'll!a'l his dismissal -from • ffic
■ , u »r— •* ; V - I , ■ uivt-
really a party to every treaty as Jl, iHv^ted him ^f (|iy ppuiection of the
5 ivlifilf* I Till All ke/IOuaA ^Iiw-tl* — — -k W _ n!n^ £■* nhmilllllAnt a* n)d J
the whole Union, because each and
eyery State has, in the most solemn
and deliberate manner, by adopting
thex^nsdtytion o f the United States,
conferred on tbe national government
the ««tbofity to make treaties, which
they have, each and ell, in the same
IMINlMiant ... I .L -II l ..
nisi rument, agreed should be part of y^Uqg^humkZ charged*^ wltlh
h^lllt <©#Md, -and tbe Ttev*
Let us now
are known to
can
ceasef
that
Indian ‘wgre
good fltl|h
m!t!
a treaty Mss been made . pursuant tb
the ronstitution and. iq accordancti
1*10. its forms, it binds the govfcrri-
mept •Teach statp as positively bs it
does that of the United Stpt4,- In
institution of the*
Ur.ited States, m apart.oj tkt eonstitu*
^•iiment, and required
■‘ viw from (becountry.
Getty* 3 '..
him to w|i m ^ v *
A similar <eUr».we£ addressed to a-
nother„mi*«ioe(iiy, portly alter, a
orgig .Giusd^entered -thb'
.|(MVtedaiv^ White ntet), cTlIfc^ns
Of tl^^aUwkhy intermarriage, pne.
on it the wrath of Heuveq, like some
terrible earthquake, struggling under
a mountain's weight, is pow summon
ing its fearful energies; and soon, un
loss the interc^ksIhns < ‘‘of Zion prevail,
\vill burst forth, and by its lasting
desolation, tell to v till *'thq . dprfb
the dreadful WrOth of Jehovah
against that nation Which lias dcse-
-SbOhath,-' lioi
opjrrcsf ed t he defenceless; aiid
entned her . God! We believe
the effectual fervent pntyer of
P«hi«ffij r 6r#hieH
ed hr- thef smifes^ Vi
I T H^flDLABc
for ivhatf We know.Mr. ^orce,
well —one of the puresf and bei
men. What black crimp has he
somfe mad hour bhep. gujlty 'of, tj
u * can do longer be ,pttfm^led
Bo
1 ‘pfosccutlit hid transition oflHie- v „
‘ Of God- or apeak the wordjkof adan
life to the ignorant onderrpyf^r
attend the sick-bed of the wife of
b«*Sf»ms-^or even breathe the face
«f heaven?—He will not be a
tsiker id Ihfe crime of violating
-^ilged 'faith or the laws of his «eoi
lor the purpose either of $r#m
Cherokee in the- dost
ig him front his fathers’ grav
.— Is alii The Cherokees must
dvagooAed Intel t ubmissiop. The f
expression of opinion mast not he,
Imfeff. a military force, like an
IncfuiShfon, must traverse the Natii
to SOlde* offenders, without > civil pr
-cess, or any intimation to them oft
Crime for which thej arp grrei
ed. f ' ' "" *’
Think of it, ye whom the
spirit of LIBERTY still animates
think ofitJ
-if Offerdd.
Christian!
our cliklstian Cqiumunitv
will pwjVeiit Hfie qurse!
froFtliitie own soujf.
From the Jodrnal^f Humanity.
After life discharge of the'mission
arms among the Cherokeesl soiiie
nme apr Jv Sentence of tbe Geofgta
Court, it was supposed that they
would be "rier&iitcd to proseeute
their peaceful and philanthropic, la
hors without farther molestation.—
a4! ,e of their persecutors
was not louiSsily Satisfied. The law
under which (hey were arrested was
planned and enacted for tbe very, ptu-
Ti& Cherohut And Georgia.—
meMifinhd, a day sr two since, the^
moval of ths Rev. S. A. W or coate
from (he Past Office at New Echgti
in the Cherokee country. It ivi
appear by tpe following article «u
correspondence, which is copied frpi
the Chorokee Phoenix of June 4ti
that this was but the prelude to mor
outrageous proceedings against the <k
fenceless Indians. WUilo Mr. Woi
cester Was an officer of the Unit*
States, Georgia £ould not enforc
agains* him. her unconstitutional sit
oppressive acts, if is removal wi
necessary to leave ^hn at her fu
mercy, and the President did not he
it ate to do it, and give the last sani
lion of the government to the odiou
Illegal and iniquitous proceedings
the stato of Georgia.,
" "Tlie unvarnished statement of tl
Phoeiii* needs.qo comment It ai
peaU 1b the people of the Units
States, in a voidc that must be hcai
and will be obeyed,. tg taka the »
nonai honor and the mti'oriqf faith in
their own hands, and prush, with ove
whelming ihdignatiqn, an odininisitr
t ion, which has ?bown Jts coutcmi
of both. It Is tinffi lor the people
say that treaties shall be Jcepk ai
that tlie Chei-okebs shall b? protec
ed.—*• Troy Sentiikl.
pose of driving them from U»cir Hald the disinterested benevofenre of ti
of labor or muring them m prisoiX- pl^tsti
Accordingly, when flftj
from
cessor
to
lon nil 9WM 4
any of III#, s
gunpowder,
colony, and «
plante
Oct
?"■*
them, «grest
MO longe# thtf*rto|
4*4 e
» r* -iWhich , -
r> leadsr e/Amert-j the dAheVltbf
Jpgs oassod-* ati
, .j jph i|ibes, -*44it '*Siic
neilher hi^bwhshts; 1 'Ms
t \h$ foi-
' precepts, por kepi
■"lApts* Rum and
in the
ansU
Chrt-okefcs
const itdfipiniks Mb meMinuA
ICgi 9 lat1^^r«ere*l),
it is a positive breach of pub
not as direct os that ot tbe
fitstes
but as. ^
regarded bsrselL' ...
'hoj^srfy in any strnd 1b*
, S«e boond
ItuaJly as are'
States
m
Jlott, n ho is a Mntiisdist int
“'••‘WSffJKJ .undef^tlifi< directi
tWh *Tt*tW(Wsse confereflehr ;
iu pairs, arid ii
' ‘£]*Whb*b> lib dowon’Vohrd li fra-
Joseph and David Vanr
™ nlir g mombee of the Chferoke
SWdle* A»r. ,Woodwnrd,'Mrf1if’Coy
oh^Mg, QJ^Hdnr a M^arisA Mission
nsrested. ^ Mr ’M’Cp
•.^R^sdward.tWeW MiVstel
•® they had dared to preside a
J nqptMgs. y The b^Uhad 5
edkyXdihc cawsdtFttftfrjjfc
1 Jir^iClauder, after being de-
•boot two hours and a half,
Governor
was
e»‘
ty* f
S&toffipaa
r F«f * was | a -foreign sod hostile
arran^nqgts
k. prevent t ed the United ^ats^goVXfhmWVHii
t 3 ‘f or ^iRa ond hoBtitC 'gbyeirhuuiftl , in, 5IW ,
s/
From the Newark Sentinel.
It writ he seen by the official doi
uihentr-publisln-d in the precegdiii
page, that the 'General Governmei
is most cordially co-operating with tl;
opprAsme acts of the State of Geo
gia.ia driving the ChOrokeos from tli
peaceful land of their fathers, alik
regardless of the unhfienable right
uf the Indians, and the Mission estat
llsbments -planted amongst them'b
r .._ istian euhlio. ft WJH be reco
depiswp, of, looted that it is but a short time smci
•>8 lit., .ta Oil u n.u:.ki.j • . _
on Ihjp ground tbtfh th’oy w/re Agents
6f the United §tat 61* was. hnoixoarthe
.. . was immediately brouaht
the National Executiv# sod
the tnis.’yoi' ohtainfl‘ on which th«
piocdedingr oCjoii'H beftr are foun
ded. !*A».iv
uyes.wcre takeh to procure' hisire**
mpvsU ****$*:.&? *
„ . jr,. -■,**. .1.:,---# *
jf a humane Christam people can
podure this m silence and qCLiet, they
o«d«ro anything IfeVer bef<
have these-United' States beer J
grpesd by. suoh- intolerable legists
A„tyrw«K?fil eod « uiuMit'uti
... tO‘« f
'hristain-- missionaries—
and of cultivated middi
1jk nnd integrftjr tlk
Apr itself oeanot touchy»
philanthropic ted sWff’p
L BMflffi ffMIAMASMO kAbet
- MMir**™ 1 ^ouorunr nfAn
peesedk i willing tribute ef gvotUnde
<W bsbslfof suffering humsntty—these
agents of the Christa in public jp the
mnk of bringing the Iudian to;part»ke
of the light c enjoyments of virtiMMis
■Treat of the Rev. Mr. WorctsW
and after being dragged before
i tribunal discharged on tl
ground that he was an United that
... »k OCt jp Gstlr, pubiii
e streets of Askeion, th
further the vie hr of tl
-eorgis, the man no»v nt tl
be nation, Kgs yielded bis ai
> u.T'Kteioo of the Rei
qnlesethey* -0* lhe>oun(rj in'Tte
t sp.ee nrSedPL^.
hipglofl and Jaffhrsoo, who once
,w^d«fe t 4lffie mmmpJrn
*f wmbsuVii fiidrs
the HeSroW^oiidage
**^ctS id's! dad of freedom
| mg uaabAi aaaW.
wr^.d^aidetieothat ‘gl.sWrt'dh
the land! , w***tT shw
*’ From ihp m*m
fhpreniotii*aWe
ts a long, but most id
portaet ostiete in an
pepmt gkft* «
the unjust