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,jjj -really uesire the privilege of dt-
S. A. WORCESTER.
‘ b J TROTT.
ELIZUR BUTLER.
SAMUEL MAYES.
Tiic note was returned to us with
the 10.lowing answer written on tH»
outside. ...
We view the within request as an
to aiteiuS court. 'Proctor, odso, was
too sick to attend.
f shall not attempt to describe the
proceedings of the court, which ap
peared to me no less singular than the
| attitude in which we were presented
i befoie them—in the hands of a eon-
: stable to be committed to jail, and yet
in the hands of' Co!. Nelson to be
presented before a habeas coipus
court. It is sufficient. that the de-
We all gave
imuerthienl one. If your conduct be , . .
iinpLiin**.* | i i cision was against us all.
.,. u t ei ice ol your character and the i
icviucuv j security tor our appearance at the
ilneirinfls vou wish to promulgate we * J J 1 .
U0L ‘ ‘ • , o next term of the Superior Court, ex-
s-idjeieiiuy enlightened as to both, j . 1 . , ’
“ M . • , w 4 # . i- cent the poor Cherokee, who was
Our object is lo restrain, not to la 1 1 . _ , . . . 5
1 . J , . , . anew committed to jail,
cij talc iheir promulgation. ii your , J
es loft by the emigrants were situat- tcresting, thnt we must refer our Tend
ed within the magical chartered limits
of Georgia, and it was not permitted
by President Jackson to other citi-
zie&s of the Nation to occupy them.
era to the volume itself for a com
plete perusal. In a few words, on
visiting Barrow Island, traces of its
having been recently visited appear
and he directed iho U. States Agent ed; even part of a ship’s scraper had
to issue to all the intruders who had i been left there. Proceeding thence
pounced upon such places, like vul
tures upon an object suitable to sa-
to F>yam Martin's Island, the migra
tory party was discovered. It con-
aturai appetite, permits | sisted ot torty persons, who proved to
to ensure their occupancy from nu-jbu Christians. Iho history of these
lestation. lie contended that the people was this:—1 hey had embark-
U. States had acquired ail interest j e d Irom Chain Island, their native
of tret be true piety you can enjoy i
\Vere we hearers j ‘
in the soil, which by th# Compact
of 1SQ2, enured to tlie benolit of
(Georgia! and uuder an art passed
Doctor Butler and myself, as well j by the last legislature of thnt state
'im ' * . y ! a i • i ii • • »i
ritompsou, remained at Law- upon this absurd decision they were
11 v u !t " r ? 1 Jil i j 'V i* irC * r t ' renceville till this morning, and ox- i rented by her agent, Col. Sanford,
ttc.vouM j.oi l.e bc„ e fi(e 1 | > d«vo„i; icnccUf| . om gon|c of ^ ,. Uizi!119 i to while |.oopl5 for one year. It
05 ll,lM Ul Cl 11 *' lu1 1,1 j various acts of distinguished kindness, j w il scarcely be worth mentioning tlio
C*Hl\ • l _ t _ 1 _ ! _ 1 I I I . t — I .. 1 .... ! r-r- V- . \ 11C 1 I 1’fl ll .7 rtf t h/i 1 i I n rtf ♦ L rk.
caiy
i
igiit d j
\i*.u dui it we
u
.V f»» (
Ti
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1 ;i k lu. Several of the
»e ami stood by the door,
nb-
;. •ont
us, and
l.ngoag
NFI SO\ j which we shall hear in grateful re- j gross absurdity ot the idea ot the
‘ 1 * * membcrance. I Government and the Arkansas Cher-
at supper. j Witli much esteem I remain your j okt*es, without the consent of this
ib»»:i at our priacn was thrown ! s ^ ftcere p r ; en( j^ Nation, at any time obtained,
S. A. WORCESTER. ' rogatiug, or ratlior nullifying
ot them commenced insulting Mr. BorntNor, M c
me in particular, with such | communication addressed to you by i
ns made it appear that even
place, about three years before, under
favorable auspices, for the purpose
of paying homage to the new king of
Otaheiie. shortly afterwards, they
encountered an adverse gale, which,
the politeness fvf tlmir style, uoi
was lull of orginafity, energy, and
vigour. No roan can read him witfr*
out feeling himself called upon for
the earnest exercise of his thiukiug
powers; and, even with the most tizea
attention and application, the student
is often obliged to confess his inability
to take in tbe whole of the meaning
with which the poet’s mind nas per
ceptibly fraught. Every sentence
that Donne w rote, whether in verse
or prose, is exclnsively his own. In
addition to this, his thoughts are of
ten, m the noblest sense of the word,
poetical, and a passage may be quoted
from him that no English poet may
attempt to rival, unless it be Milton
and
Shankspeare.
Ben Jonsou ob-
perishT But
after a tale of suffering, to which our _ .
author has done ample justice, is sue- j served of him, Willi gr?al truth and
ceeded by a calm:— U A long calm, I a prophetic spirit, “Doling for n<"t
and, what was to them even worse, » being understo d, will
hot.
pest.
pair. From tne description, we may j thing to the Graces, Donne went in*
the imagino their canoe alone, ay id becalm* j to the other extreme. M dli a lew
pci isiiing | sidomiid • and admirable exceptions*
, dry weather, succeeded the tern* j this is not all. if Waller, and
si, and drove them to a state of des-i link, and Cart: w sacrificed eve y
. most solemn engagements contained j ed on the ocoan; the crew, |j»-i lam-.ijj i
° ° 1 in our ti-ealies with the United States, 1 with thirst, beneath the fierce, glare j his phraseology and Versification nro
Mr. Worcester ua
irV: tie -o ;s c-.ulil ao ea:iallol in III I 'late* of July I till, I2lh and 13th,
* i ,i l , K . i „ 4 ..I I . I ..
, ot- k "severd ^ ie provisions of the intercourse ( ol a tropical sun, hanging exhausted | crabbed and icpuiswe; and, as port-
ia.1. ’laws of the United Stales; and the 1 over their paddles: children looking lo 1 ry is read in the tes* plate tt>» pl^as-
•f conversation oue or tivother9 and another under
■lus ied him. Such men do not consider l^th and 15th,
1 • 11»* -ss
-3
t i.n they are pavttis* us a conipliment .facts contained in
b> t.jkmg i’ for granted that prolanc- j tions, so lor as
3 e ., s and ibacenity am torture to our selves
ears AHcrwards sonic of tliMTi.our observation,
earn '■ c ? c lay down by our door (or lltt* 1 root,
apparent purpose ot disturbing our j
ku9; by their talk. One reechoed .
individually, or
arc
C trict?vj con cede these lands an ! in anymanner | bathed in it, or poured it over men
^ | fur less can individuals by the prrlidi-1 heads; bu. me absence oi ft cab water,
JOHN THOMPSON,
ELIZUR BUTLER.
\h ontks, Fear not, little llock.”
C it A T T k »1 OOC H T .0 II E RCTC E t N IT I ON ,
July 25.
1 ndu now on my way homo; and
Jiving to tarry a litt!e time here,
I resume my narrativeof recent e-
rents.
On Monday, the day of my last |
date, Mr. Thorn pson Mr. W illinm j
Rogers arrived with a writ of habeas j
corpus, requiring Uol Nelson to pro- j
sent us betbic the interior court of
Gwirnett County, at Lawrcuceville.
j ous stratagem based upon the treaty j nl the torrid zone, cannot be eompeo-
j before alluded to. This is a brief j sCited by such subsliiuies. Day aile:
but correct statement of the manner j day, those who were able extended
. . , . .’- v ^ int ^ i * ln which a large portion of the lutru- < their gourds to heaven in sui>i)licatiun
closr.l niv oommun,cations I have «, are legal!,, It* loose upon os, lor ram, a.id renoated their ... overs.
I not had opportunity to see iny late; ■ • II... . 4 '
fellow-prisoners, except Dr
vernl t>m *8 from tbe mouth of P. S. New Echota, July 28. Since
loft undisturhed on the
lbe sepuiMire,
hnndrrd, even
iiivation, can
it‘. in ieniilyU
llicy ever iieard of his pro-met inns.
Goodwin's Tff.n^hts cm f\!eu.
HMWW* i n~ hi i nn—fin i it - ""*****"
“ am k it.i it an .•?» puerr ato a
\NJ> W.\SIIiNGTC>N CH » CHRON T LT;
^ubtinfifd weekly b>, Jam C. iktnn.— Jsjmc -j;
Editor.
h is th° design of tit^ Spectator to p;e~ ’
| or their testimony would have
1 added to the above. It can be
ed if any of the facts are question
ed.
8. A. WORCESTER.
The oilier class are less fortunate j length reached its height, and seven-
in some respects, as they have not j tael) persons fell victims to -is hor-
\ posing that we glim.til probably * ^ p^maps, no one specie
i taken away the next morning, and oFTrsiucI & oppression practised upo
ll„ ,i,| have "to .v.lk, I)v. Buller 11,0 Cherokee* .vl.ieli lias cause
COMMUM1CATION.
For th« Cherokee Phieuiv,
MATTERS AND THINGS AS TaaEY
ARE.
There is, perhaps, no cue species
u pou
the direct sauction of law to frample j iors. ' 1 hoy were at Iasi ihrawn
upon treaties.& acts of Congress, & upon Barrow Island, where they rc
violate the solemn assurances of nil j maincd eighteen months, when, in
the Presidents of the United States, ; liopos of reaching home, they re em-
but they are as deeply and as firmly barked, ami got as iar as Byam Mar-
established in the country. Who has j tin's Island, the spot where the Hlos-
uot heard of the “notoMons old Dick, ^som lell in with them. They men
Philpeld' and his generation, the Crad- J tinned, moreover, thab they had left
saddle hags to Mr.
i'arried for him to
W c wore afterwards
Ur
sn
d^liv, •veil hts
•Thf.'fii ,, * on tn he
J, iivtex Seville
in*'Hired that, after
» I a I re 3 k 6°t beyond tlu; line of
U,mp Gilmer, whde tarrying a little
.1 Sejdder'tf b»n Uol Nelson, being
there, ordered one of the guar.l to
<mxvh the s.-.dd.V^ bags saving that he
would see. how 'mieb miner they
( -itfnin«»d for tbe Phccnix. Accord-
they were thw'onghljr but vainly
searched. Cot. NVIsxsi said after-
v.ards that he had anothei object
more trouble and vexation than that
arising from the intrusion of citizens
of the United Mates upon their lands.
Thompson or ‘'-T n ® need not trace nor the mo
tives which sanction the perpetration
— they are familiar to all who are
d dockn, Landlords. Yorks. Ramteif*. * part ol a scraper on the island which
Johnsons, Shipleys, Uptons Sc. But ■ they tirst reached, which enabled
l forbear. j Capt. Beechoy ta ascertain its ident-
A respectable Citizen of Creek j ity. The reader will appreciate the
Path Valley, on tin 1 Mahama frontier, importance of t'nis fact towards the
asserts that, within the eircums* ribed
limits of enc mile around hi« ro^id^nce.
solution of iLe difficulty above-men
tioned, whr-n we stale, that Barrow
conversant with the history of Indian ; ibere arc not less than fifty jam-litofj Island, iho point first reached, is 420
wrongs. My object is simply to give ; intruders. Along the frontier of Ten- : miles dca,d to windward of their native
s »mo idea of the extent ot this grow- j ncssee thev arc also numerous, and place,
ing evil, and tbe wanton neglect ol j such has been their eagerness to set* | *
! scorching them, which, however, j d* aos - J selves in the woods and among th^ jtbe time that he was twenty-on**
h ' did not ^extdain. This wag done i Of the precise number of intruders j mountains, with no ofh**r shelter j years of age, he was universally con-
ii ocsence <4* Mr. Tlmmpsou, Mr. j I cannot speak with certainty, hut j tbe - pi t iioss storm,’ *& 4 c!iiMi’i*r IvJasts i sidered a9 holding the lielm ol learn-
Scudder. there are several hundred families, t of winter, than a small camp Oitule of ing in his hand, and guiding the com-j t^rc tsol society.
tin* officers of the lederal Govern- |tle upon Indian hind, tliat in many in-j Mobility of fame.—Nicholas Pior-
mewt to discharge tbe most ini per a- stances they have crossed the Tonnes- > was born in tbe year 1580. His
tive duties which they owe to the sue river with their families & stocks 1 progress in knowledge Was so vari*
law«, themselves, and to the In- j of cattle ami begs and located tbern- ’,tjus and unprecedented that, from
! selves in the woods and among
Rege r s nn
■1 M
• t uj .jrlam, r*-lativ^ to th»- District, -•'
various •iepartments of il*« Genera U v—
, rnmeni, to point out the -:.eMgu a-n t
aencj of jiublio measures, am! exit tot the
txioral mieilectua cuRriicteiTi pub.ieL
iut n.
i'o advocate the promotion to power, ot
ihtise whose known''personal skill and pri
vair» virtues art* a pleogv ui ih- i» la.lti u. ,*
ness ami ability in the \ ublio scrvi *e.
To v indicate '.ire i :giiis, hotti na..ual amK
conventional, ot lh^ Anoi g.n-s Oi tins
countr y, and to urge tnew* cta nis, as is
original soveieigna an I p. opri^tovs, to out
assistance ami sympathy.
To exlub-, some of tiie political ami i
lal evils connected with the col* re-, j- mi-*
cation, and to promote and enccmca^*, by^ 1
every proper and practicable au'ih.-u, «.;♦>
laudable operations of me American Col
omzation and African Educ&ion v^o'iejp
ties,
To expose the enormities and naip^r es A
Intemperance, and to aUviicat^ al lat\ ul
n 1 ensures of effecting, ip* exlutctien.
To promote the genreai interests m
ucation, moral, intel‘t-c\ ia!, ami phy
and to a*js$ert its claims to be consider I
tho essential and only safeguard ot freed sff
;n a republican government.
To encourage and to defend from s-atv
<UrouH affacks, andmjourmns suspscionv
all associations designed and calcidati n .'C
pr omote, at home and abroad j the ben tn
in
p»3‘ ICC
to the individuals com- ! located within the limits of the
•posing the guard, it may he proper
to say that, w hile we we»c in jail, on-
Jy two or three im':ividnals offered us
4inv insult, urns* of them * rented us
with civUty, and some with kii.d-
.ness.
h was
xha! n’ ? t\
.tiro me at.
nn- ! dap-boards! while some havt* nctuallv monwealth rd letters,
ling taken up their abode in ca v ^nis under i the age of fifty-seaven.
He died at
The ncada- 1
To pu disk ail recent and useful improvt!
x*nls in ihe Art and Sciences 4
To sketch the proceedings rf Congresic
till Thursday morning
relieved from our ron-
Yhe tt'ason afterwards
d \we tl'd Bo!. Sanford, who
tion,bordei ing on the four surrounding : taken up
states, viz: Georgia, North Carolina, ' the mountains'
'Tennessee and Alabama; and may be! ( To be conti+rfftil.)
classed under two heads, legalizetl, j •
8l outlawed, yet are they all outlaws'- 5C?*0n Friday t*i& 9th of Scptem-1 «”'« ** ms lum-iai urumui; miu u uoi- j , - r
unoer the laws of the United States, j ber next a t/ircc. d/iy s meeting will 1 lection ot verses m Ins praise was t ni ^ v u ill .-nJeavoi to gne both oi them
published in more than forty langua*-, their du«*, tie.* to exi esc to the public e,o
as a ! the idriguCs hum oblitpnties oi •all parties
and
ticfni'cioijs to tiie wediare ol the -cout.v
| my ul tho Humoristi, at Rome, pnbi | «j U rii,g their aetsions, and to present at «*ti
j the most extraordinary honors to liis J times a nummary ut*Foreign and Duiuest^e
j memory; utany of tbe cardinals assist-j Nvns.
- • ed at his funeral oration; sml a col-1 . I do tlie Spectator will seduou^y !>
but the nullifying marks of state rights; commence
made upon Indian lands entitle them i ground
to this distinction from the oilier
class, who, although as
at Chattooga. Camp
ges.
Salmesiu? was regarded
On Thursday the 22nd of Septem-’ prodigy* of learning; and various pr«i- a> hiujny p.rmci-u*, aud extreiu^iy
\ : j
C -I.
4.5 ♦•(*)'*
A ,r
::jiwivc till Wednesday ovening, | in point ol character, h
/roots
the
(Ten.
< «r;vernment.
TOt evidence in his posses-j direct
T ;, «?>. ) suppose, must have rages
'-Iter »Vcm \ha. Seerelary of nioro clearly in what manner this first
■ aimer ih^t missionaries were j class are permitted to intrude.
In May 1828, a treaty was conclu
ded at \V asbmgton City between the
Government of the United States and
the Arkansas Cherokees, in which
was contained a provision, that to
every individual Cherokee who would
to the west from the Na
an d fifty r.e.ils
to secure his residence in their states, i per anu« ' , in advance, or (litre dollar/-,
Christina, Queen of Sweden, having ! t° he paui w linn three months after siu
scribing. Fo« six kiiontha one doll.u and
bin cents; lor three mouths one dollar, nt
rn'T
Kir. nir from I*os. 4 Master Gener-
l\. ml n nnu.. the Govei 'i“f '»f my dis-
qniis < i from office. Ow Thursday
morning wp were all furnished with
In.rxrs, ami sot ont towards Lav.
t-ville. Instead, however, of he-
before the
r*nci
jj'i y presented dit*ectlv
*,7m. to iv hi oil the writ of Itahrax
iv a s in;id<
\\
corpus
W Hrt
reace
him delivered OVf?r
^ eoust .hie for jail.
w e
returnable.
brought before n justice of the
on the
emigrate
... . J t *.. i • . utfngerGUS Lo tne wuliare
^ reputable her next ti Camp meeting will he helit ces and powers entered into a coin-^c* t *■
av r e not the ; at Neely’s Chapel near the Cherokee tition fvho should he so fortunate as j TERMS — riro dollars
sanction of law for their out- j Agency, commencing the 22nd
It may be proper to show j ending the 25th of the month*.
On Thursday the 29th of boptem-1 obtained the preference, received
her next a camp meeting will com-1 him with singular reverence and at-1 art Vance. " ^
menec at the Camp ground in Wills) tention;- and, Saimasius being taken! Any person who wii) obtain live rf'^pon
Valley. * ! ill at Stockholm, and confined to his sibk- autoscribers, will be cntitleu to an
July the 28th 1831. bed,- the Queen persisted will* her ditional copy, or its equivalent in mo
I). C. McLEOD. | o'V« hand to prepare his candle* and ^ Subscrtbetsat a dl « an8e> who rc 1H . t
ruenfi his liro. let, but tor tbe ac-! known to the pubt.slier, or his Agents, wi If
IIow have the Islands of the Pacific j cidont ol his having Milton lor his j in all cases be expected to pay in mk-
fed?—The way in which I adversary, liis name iv'juld now be j
lt*cn peopled?
«i,East of the Mississippi, the Gov- j Polynesia has been peopled is a ques- j as little remembered even by the ,
eminent would make a just com pen-1 tiuu which has perplexed plnloso-, generality ot tbe loa rinetf, as th.it ol j roneoi ; s impreesions r e»p e ctm gits fund-.
sation tor the property he might
abandon. About five hundred indi-
y, and all of us bv viduals, induced to emigrate, were as
into the hands of|' V5,s reported by Government Agents,
* tvjih the nui'J^r- j °i vrhite, red and black, great and
jblanding ! bai the C’onstahle should
xffni on tht* Col., til! be could appear
with us before'the mft rior court.—
Ar nine o’clock in the night we arriv
ed at LiwrenceviHe. Friday was
spent ill endeavoring to collect the
Justices ef the court: and not till near
noon on Saturday were we at length
brought before them for a hearing.
In the meantime, on Saturday morn
ing. D*\ Butler was seized with a
’violent and dangerous attack of bil
ious rholick, and although, by prompt
’■and vigorous medical aid, he obtained
"|^liof, fy
sri?11 ? °r as was incorrectly reported
one hundred and fifty five faunilies,
and among them some who wore nrcei
pliers, and has given rise to many in-j Iheresk. Du Bartas* in the reign of
genious theories. It was easy enough i Henry the Fourth of France, was
to suppose, that in many cases the
natives might have been driven by the
trade-wind to the islands to leeward;
but whence came the inhabitants of
those .4pots which are situated at the
windward extreme, and between
poem on the
World” went
ever existed. Ilis
“Creation of the
through upwards of thirty editions in
the course Gf five or six years, was
traniated into most European langua-
admitted or considered by the nation | which and the continent ot South j ar, d its commentators promised
a* citizens. Appraisers were appoin-1 America two thousand miles inter--to equal, in copiousness and number,
ted by the President to value the | veue? So difficult did the solution of I tbe commentators ol Homer. One
improvements which they claimed ] this problem appear, that many, till j ol the most admired English poets,
or possessed in the country. Tlie this moment, have gone the length of; about the close of the sixteenth cen-
’ ‘ ” asserting, that the first people ofthe j tury, was Donne. Unlike many of
Pacific Islands must have emigrated j those trivial writers oi verse who
from the shores of Chili or Peru, j succeeded him, after an interval of
fremr bcinepahie
total amount of valuations, I believe,
was more than thirty seven thou
sand dollars, but the addition ofj .....
other items of expenditures in the Capt. Beechey, in the course of his | forty or fifty years, and who won for
voyage, has cleared up this difficulty, I themselves a brilliant reputations by
and in a manner so satisfactory, and, j the smoothness ol their numbers, the
r ' L * '* and
cry tuitions removal of these tew indi
viduals cost not less than fitly nine
thousand dollars f
Many of the plac*- from circumstances, so intensely in-! elegance of their conceptions,
It has been reported that the American
Spectator belongs to the Colonization So--
ono of the most successful poets that c . let y> that it belongs to the African Edu *a-
Uon Society; that it will be chiefly devot
ed to the interests ol one, or the otiwr, or
bothr, of these Societies; that the African
Education Society is connected with
tbe Colonization Society, and that the
funds of the latter Society will lie
ppopnated to the use of the other*
Ail these reports are entirely pr*
roneous. ft is important, and it is high
tune, that the truth should be known: and
wc shall deem it a peculiar favor, if tfie ed
itors of the various periodica s will aid us
in presenting it before the public. Jt is a
favor which we will reciprocate, whenever
we may be presented with an opportuniw
ty.
The American Spectator is connected wiift
l he African Education i^ociety. T he St>
ciety are responsible for conducting tb*
editorial department; and, iu return, they
are allowed a spaae in ea«ih £^ciyoot