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fit h ami crushed the veru-iUiaj
the blood gushed in lorreals Irom his
eyes, liis mouth, his ears—a gasp con* In<Jictits can slay upon
Vtilsed his frame—a gioan—one gasp
more —and lie had ceased to sullei.
The man of God eyed fuf a moment
the bleeding visage where blood had
not uueiidied.th^genlle darned re*
Mgiiiition; he threw his look upwards,
thru down on the assembly and with
voice of «In illing expression, declared
-• *a light eons soul has taken flight!
— * * Voilu I anie du juste rju» »
t *
? * and these lots are to be put up and dts-
i: posed o) by lottery. Now what does
? Does it mean that the
their lands it
will be
tins mean
vole
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from t In* I i *• * kno r
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pi re Press.
sustain the policy o! the
years, which embraced a
7 Vic I. nlin ns ~-*dgain.’-- A white*
washer ol the lallen cabinet and lull
ing admiiiisl rati n has recently been
()••« upving the columns of the mason s
‘•Friend,” in untenable attempts to
two past
deliberate
reckless violation of all the treaties
with the Choctaw and Clierokee In
dians. both before and alter the state
of Georgia took her place in the cuu-
federed Union.- Whoever this waiter
may be, In* is not entitled to any an
swer until he vindicates Georgia and
the general govern in *nt , not tor what
he says they have a right to do, but
Idi* wh.it they are actually doing. YVe
h ive said, vve say now, and we are
•enaied to expand upon the topu
they please, only that they
held amenable to the laws of Geor-
uia ? No, the very terms ot the ease,
as presented by the friends and apol
ogist* of Georgia oppression, are vi
elated in the outset, and there is no
nhirnative iidout it. The language
ol the red man s persecutor ts—it you
will go, I %\ it t give you land some
where at the west, but go you must,
and, live or die, your land I will have.
Other states, when their population
heroines too large lor their soil, send
their sons and daughters to go like
honest men and women and buy laud
lhe western world, liom those who
in
are willing to sell it. Not so in this
ease. The land is taken from those
who are not willing to sell, and who
are n«>t allowed any voice in prescrih-
.lo say without hesitation ami most (went away, and they never saw or* sals. By such means, whether j„ st
unqualifiedly, that ihe cond-ct of ih. heard ol hun aller-.vards. I hey sup- or unjust, let him that rea.U j„j
~ posed that they should in a luture did the agents ol our government $ )i( .
state, enjoy a sensual paradise, those eeed in persuading 1000 Choctaws
had been guilty ol
mg terms, such
unqualifiedly
authorities of the state of Georgia
toward the missionaries stationed a-
mong the Cherokee Indians, and to
ward the Indians themselves, so lar
as they have come under a similar
operation of these authorities, is a
barbarous outrage upon the civil and re* j
legit us rights of the citizens of these
Untied States. * Wc speak of course
on the presumption that the facts have
been troly detailed*, v aud if not true,
why are they not contradicted/
Has it come to this? Is a mission
ary, peaceably pursuing his calling.
Idi no other '‘rime alledged than a re
fusal, from conscientious motives, to
take an oath ol allegiance to a partic
ular stale, to he suddenly apprehend
ed, bound ivitk chains and incarcerated
excepted, who n«<« w ^ b
some flagi ant wickedness. Their
dwellings were rudely constructed
of poles, by fixing the lower ends in
lhe ground, and uniting them at the
top; the crevices between them be
ing filled up with clay or mud. Thoy
had no chimneys, and no opening of
to deprive the remaining 19,000 f
the land of their ancestors, t| lf ,j r
comfortable, dwellings, and cultivated
fields. All is now confusion and ail .
archy. Many faces gather blackness
Many give themselves up to iutoxi
cation and vice. Hut si ill there , 5
hope o( better days. The mission*.
any kind, except a small door. They tries, who had s«en the seed, which *
were filthy in their persons, being lind been sown with much toil and
often covered, especially in w inter, ■ suffering, beginning to spring up and
with soot, and wore no clothing, ex- bring forth abundantly, will not for.,
eept a single piece of cloth about the sake the unhappy Indian. Some of
waist; that of the females being large them will g«* with their cliurelwj
enough to extend nearly fmm the j schools, ami friends, beyond the Mi^
arms lo the knees. They sometimes,
however, had an additional cloth or
ilnd endeavour
in a prison? After being thus chained.
is he to be driven like a wild
through the streets? Are these
&c.
as pi ice, payment, ! cinisitoi’isil transactions to he tolerut
And this is what is called till
! n
that
whenever i* becomes necessary,
III,-, right of self government belongs
to these Indians; that it has been sol
emnly and forever guaranteed to them
bv oil I nation; and that, too, with the
full eensent of Georgia, <oi sho did
not remonstrate at the time, and
dhv r until quite recently took il into
her head tint her state sovereignty
Was endangered. Neither she nor the
»l government have any mine
right to compel the natives to give
up. (or sell, if that phrase suits bel-
toi.) their lands. I' an th« > have
to come into this comity an l say to
the owners of the Mohawk tl.iis-*-
‘(••Mitleinen. we want you* lauds; we
will give you in exchange large tracts
on the ('apt? Coil shore and pay the
expenses of v our removal; il you iviil
iigtci* to this well and good, and il not,
wc shall make such laws as we
please (o' you, a id. because vhu ait*
pot Yankee*?, von shall have no repre
sentation in making those laws, and
yan shall submit to them when they
arc? made.,—-llow would that suit our
oil honest German scttleis? Lois
however, is not the woist state o| tlie
case, as vve shall presently show; but
it L exactly the ease ns taken up by
the whitewash write'* to whom we
refer. According to him, Georgia
cxte. ds her jurisdiction over tint
people* who from time immemorial
have been governed by their own laws
while within their ow n proper limits,
and they are told bv the? general gov
ernment to give up th'*ir lands and
take in exchange the vrihls bevond the
Mississippi, which neither they nor
we know any thing about; which very
likely are in the possession of other
tribes who will claim a right to them, ! enec.
inanity! May the possessors ot such
humanity find a very different standard« r pj ]tM) |l3tiy
of mercy, when they stand beiuie llie j sntut ; ons '
God ol the oppressed as well as the
oppressor. VY r e asked above ho\v the
old settlers of our flats would like a
similar treatment to that of tlie case
as made out by the writer in the
Friend. We will now vary that a
little, and take a paiutlel lo tlie real
ease. Let a people, under th,s pat
ronage of Gen. Jackson, come to them
and say—‘*Well, honest triends, it »s
true you and your lathers and your
grandfathers have h\«-d line on these
beautiful Mohawk ti lls a
ed in a Christiau land, a land ol boast-
i skin thrown over their shoulders.
1 VYhmi the gospel was first make
‘! st ! known to them, they said it was good
| for the white men; but as for them,
it was enough if they could go where
sissippi,
there the work which
in
oug sent s
of years, and your l ight to the soil is
indisputable. But v\e have bet unit*
to • numerous t >r the country wlicit*
we live ami we want your land lor
• »ur young men and worn n Now n
happens that we are the strongest,
because we have got tin
or which, for aught we know, may he
as sterile as the sandy* coast. And
according to him their dreadful alter-
B resident
wilt! the Luted State’s a* my to Puck
•is up. B *si tes, w c art* \ niKei s anu
you ate Germans, and so vve have no
partieul i» regard for yom ngois, al
though you rn *v In* really much the
most respectable people. However
we wish to he vt*«y hind and vei y
nwnane, am! so we will compel vtm to
sell \ mi r land, ami we wui give you
two acres on Cape C d toH one here.
W hen you get there you can probably
jet possession of it by buy ing oil the
owners or fight.eg them oil. As you
of com se c.«n have, no voice in this
humane bargain, vve shall not wait tor
your consent, but to-morrow onr sur
veys swill come on and .c’oniinem e
i mining it out into lots, and it you art*
not off by the time we want it, vve
shall very humanely help you oil* with
Cnele Sam s troops. In tlie mean
'tine, as we have made laws restrict
ing your commerce, conduct, &.e. we
wish you to undeistand that the old
laws which you have had a hand in
forming are null and void, and our own
are now in operation. Indeed, our
people are to-day h tiiging a man, down
at Fort Plain, because he preferred
your laws to ours, although it was be
fore he Lilly understood the differ-
So v ou see we are m earnest,
sooner vou are off the hel
lo perfect
has been so
unfortunately, not (u say wickedly,
interrupted. The Indian churdiej
plead with them, not to forsake their
spiritual children ‘‘Will u mother
forsake her needy child 7 ” say ihey.
ed freedom, in the nineteenth eentry!
w e hid farvvell to free in-
Then may vve sing a re
quietn over the grave ol onr consti
tutional rights and privileges,—and
go home and wrap ourselves up in the
mantle of deep mourning for the death
of our ancestral inheritance—-civil, ;
political, and religious Our fathers ;
fought, bled, suffered and died in;
f
their fathers had gone. So obstinate- They-ask too that their white bretli-
Iy fixed in this opinion did they ap- rrn may
t*ed
v a'ii:
But the story must not be told—at
least ire must not tiller a complaint,
for fear ol giving offence! Indt
we do not wish to give
lesslv to anv one. But il vve were to
* hold our peace,” on such an occa
sion, “the stones would cry out
against us” and condemn us for our
pusillanimity.
Neither let these remarks he con
si rued into an opposition or prejudice
against tiie souiii. As lar as we know
um own hearts, tu tlie discharge ol I
or duty, we know neither the souin, i
njiih, east or w»sl L such euudu l (
.ib wc are dcpiccatiug were w itnessed
in our own state, ot even m our own
i »iy, si we are not tot illy blinded by
partiality we would not be among the
last to auatiu matizo it. It such oui-
i ages are to be committed upon the
lights ot our citizens, and the press,
because it is a religious press, must
be uiuz/icd in regard io them, tnen
are we transported b.r U into the ages
ot barbarism, r m.o tti•* darker agt
ol
remember them in theii
pear, that it was generally supposed prayeis. Mr. W. has with him sev-
by missionaries and others, that there j dal totters written in a plain and
w as no hope of the conversion of the j legible hand, by chiefs and others,
adult Choctaws. The efforts of the expressing the most lively gratitude
missionaries were therefore directed! to them and those by whom they
to the establishment of schools aud j were supported, for their past labors,
the instruction of tlie young. requesting their continuance, and
About three years ago, a great | asking for their prnyeis of the church-
change was affected, not by men, but I es in their behalf. Could the rend-
| evidently bv the Spirit of God, in the | era of the Chronicle hear them, fb#*y
state of feeling among the Choctaws ; could not refuse lo comply with their
Deep anxiety for the salvation of the, request.
| soul, and lively in.erest in the glad j ELgg——■— ■ ■■■■
offence need-j tkJm<rs of tlie gospel, took the place
of their fo mer indifference. 1 hose
who could not before he persuaded
\ o hear tlie preaching ol ihe mission
aries, now appointed meetings of
their own accord, and then sent to
. I the missionaries to come and attend
ilum. These meetings were deeply
CHEROKEE PIKEMX.
NEW ECHOTA AUG. 19, 1*31.
A few days since a nrar relative rf t he
Agent called upon us and a^ured ms that
the remark we made in our pape~, viz:
tint most of those who had drawn th* an-
intei estiug, mul solemn as the subject j r*u tv had rec-ived corn instead of the mo-
which occupied ibt minds of those j ne*, was fal>e. Upon th« authority oftho
w i).» atteuile I. Tin? willingness and gentleman alludec t" ^ve arc happy to cor-
abiliiv ul ('bust to save all who would
com** to him, and the duty of imm*.-
diotchf accepting tilt 4 offers ol the
gospel, were the topics most dwelt
upon. One of the li*st converts was
a chief, who »s distinguished for elo
quence, and since his conversion,
eminently useful. The number ol
(.'hoctaws h ‘longing to the mission
cl arches is about 310. They gener
ally honor the gospel by walking
worthy of their prolession. A ilia
imiuib.lori.il or icily au.l civil .les- " f the arc m.vv Cli.-isuai.s
) .. s. • t« . < 11... I miiiinn 11 v. i t*. thev believe in tin*
;Vnd tlu
ter.
That is nil exact picture of the real
native is to go they know not whitb.'r, state of the case. The hanging part
nr stay and endure any regulations Sis a fair parallel to the case of the ex-
Georgia may make for them. The edition of the; Indian Tassels, winch
potisui. —-so Uai k that not even the
iiiy ol truth is permitted to diseiowC
i be horrid deeds kViiicu ni-iy be per-
pelru‘cd.
On r fc.il cell on, vve think that no un
prejudiced m?ud can attempt to justi
fy such a trespass upon llir? lights of
man; and therefore '^ e Dust that its
reprobation will he exp'i^sod in such
universal, loud, and unequivocal lan
guage, that it will not be report
although vvt* allow that while suck' a*
law exists, however oppressive its
operation, ihe missionaries must ol
necessity either comply with its pro
visions or suffer its penally.
nominally, i e. they believe hi the
iruth of Christianity. Six or eight
hundred are able to read, and most of
them to write, their native language
It was noticeable that those who be
came anxious for tlie salvation ol
their souls, generally began to learn
to read immediately. After the re
vival of religion commenced, the
nation advanced rapidly in all the
improvements of civilized life. I he
decent and confortable house took
the' place of their miserable wig-
cruelty and injust ce of this, after the | cannot he forgotten by our readers. If
numerous treaties to the contrary, is
certainly mlpable, and the efforts to
defend it are impotent. YVe shall
just tipn, however, to a darker side
of the picture, which the Friend wri
ter has totally conceded, and when
he can justify that, he will then, and
not until then, have a claim to be heard
as far as he has gone.
. The truth is. there is no fuch alter
native as even that pitiful ou«d men-
we have clothed the picture in such
language as to bring it home to tin?
heart and feelings of our independent
friends, who respect and abominate
wrong, vve h^ve attained our object.
YVe have not exaggerated a whit, and
here vve defy contradiction. As to
the writer in the Friend, we are not
undertaking to answer what he has
said; that is needless while he confines
himself *o a partial view. Our ob-
tioned above. There is no choice inijeet is to turn the picture nil round,
thp matter for the poor Indian, lie and let the public see every side of it.
is not to be permitted to stay on any! He has given one side only. It is
conditions. He is to he compelled to; proper to add, that, whatever more
sell (a curious kind of selling,) at any vve may have to say upon this subject,
event. Georgia is determined to
have the land, whether the owners
please logo, or stay and submit to he
it is not likely vve shall take any
furthei notice of him YY r e have lit
tle inclination to discourse with one
nation,
“Light as a pnjj of. empty air!"
law’s—True vve have been told, in all j who regards the solemn faith of our
the smooth sophistry of affected bu
rn mity, that Georgia does not want
the Indian’s land; she only wants In in
to obey her laws, aud if he does not From the Christian Advocate and Journal,
choose to do that he may have a price Without pretending to decide at all
for h«s property and go where he can on the justice or injustice, propriety
govern himself. But what are the or impropriety of ihe laws of Georgia
THE CHOCTAWS.
Mr. YVright, one of the missiona
ries among the Choctaws, is in New-
England, it seems, presenting the
claims of that people to the benefi
cence of the Christian community.
The following was communicated lor
tlu* Vermont Chronicle, by a corres
pondent at Andover. It cannot fall
to be read with emotion
I have just now been listening to
some statements of Rev. Mr. YY'right,
of the Choctaw mission, respecting
the state of the people of that tribe
before the arrival of missionaries a-
rnong them; the change produced by
the gospel, and their present state
and prospects. The tribe* now con
sists of 20,000 souls. The mission
of the American Board was commen
ced a-bout thirteen years ago. The
Indians seemed then to he sunk in
the deepest degradation. They had
no idea of any superior being to whom
they were accountable, and no name
for a deity more appropriate than
“great witch.” They had a tradi
tion that their ancestors were creat-
rrct the efror. YW ilid not iiK-an, howev
er, to intimate that the ag* nt cjfrred th -
corn instead of the money, but that as he
ha-1 c«<m to sell they p + rchased it of him
h matter^ not whether they received tm
ca*di ?m! then turned right louml and pah
it ov*-r to h:m or corn, or whether tirv
merely sai I to h m. ‘;i* you will H nv
have a hu^h-’t of corn vou may keep tie
liltv cent-,* Our object, in making puMu
our first infn* nation *.vas, to "how that i,
v\ a money nta 1 ing !m"-ine-<s with the a-
gent and with his friends to pay th** annu
ity in the manner attempted. YVe think
so yet, it tin* n ( was s i disposed. Wc
are happy however to be a mitred that 1^
is not thus disposed.
YVe are also informed that th" nW. r
amount of tlie annuity drawn dn<* no 1
exceed one hundred and thirty Dollar ti
We may now therefore put it down
certain that the foolish project of th»* Gov
ernment, to pay fifty cents to ca-di indivi -
ual, has completely failed. Ii i~ mtinvated
: that the agent intends, no doubt according
rii c. Tho Strip of cloth about the j to instruction from the President to de'
waist w;.’ s exchanged for the full and posite th** money in the bank, from when?*
decent dr%.*ss °t 11*0
*^d 1° hlthiness, and in-
Labour was no
whites. Neat- he received ii.
It is the intention of the President, we
and fit I understand, to commence short y enrolt’.Rj
In a word, they were rapidly adran
cm-
ill
ness succeed
dustry to indolent'
longer regarded as etc--' -**t r *^^2*^
only for females, who had '><*“" ,he Ch ! rok ;«■ V'*.°**. ,c f ° r ?™ 6ra, f nt °!
peiled to perform oil the clru,.'je-7-1 west of ^" ,e TK. . n fen»<ri.«.
- « • • •• t t^mes by way of Georgia, and this step i*
t.Mten in compliance with the urgent
and wickedness, | solicitation c. r Governor Gilmer. A.. D
n _*»w transacted through
The i\? wt •* ,ttcni r t enrol
! Uie Cherokees failed. c.’ nce timr
and their oppression has been increa^ a( l twenty
fold, and now they* are again to be sounded
If it should turn out that this oppression has
not been attendted with the desired etieeb
another turn of the screw will he gi'•
*1 r former state of de-!
ess,
the
dian business i*.
trom
gradation, misery
towards the enjoyment of all
blessing of civilized and Christian so- j that channel,
ciety.
But suddenly a cloud, dark
portentous, shrouded the nation in
gloom. A council was called to meet
the agents of the United State*, and
hear proposals for the purchase of
their country, and their removal be
yond the Mississippi. Five or six
thousand warriors assembled, and
listened to the proposals efthc agents.
By an overwhelming majority, they
refused to cede the land of their ^ , r . ronfM
Ihers’ sepulchres. Supposing the > Comm I and ." "5'.^,
business settled, most of diem return
ed to their homes, happy in the pros
pect of still dwelling in the land that
gave them birth, and soon enjoying
cn
LIBERTY OF TIIE PRESS.
In the last number of the Cherokee
Phcenix I seated that I was summoned he*
the blessing of civilization and Chris
tianity. After their departure, the
gia Guard, from whom I received a lcc'
ture in regard to my future conduct as ed-*
itor, and a threat of personal chastisement
in case I should be guilty of publishing a-
busive and slanderous articles. It is prop
er that I should inform the reader ofa<b
agents of the United States, of this ! dition al transactions of a like natur
which
have since transpired.
ed by a man, when the earth was in I telling them that if they did not cede j Yesterday morning three of (lie Guard
great
and noble minded nation, by
shall in relation to the Indians, or
TIU j course put sued by the genera
a chaotic slate, who- earned own from
above, ana formed a hill
facts in the case? The one we
mention stands uncontradicted.
Uhtrokecs refuse to sell as and mi nt towards them-—or of expressing marks of artificial formation, anil
Ge rgia has passed a law to send sur-1 an opinion on the expediency of their there created, or formed from tiie
vtyors and to divide the territory into lots, . removal west of the Mississippi, we j earth, their forefathers. lie then
their lands and remove, the United come to my hou*e unarmed, with a
which is | States would withdraw their protec-j sage from the Col. tha' l should walk up
* in the situated in the central part of their j lion, and leave them to the disposal and see him before he left the place. 1 re j
il govern- territory, and which bears evident ! of the state of Mississippi, by prom- fused, and gave, as my reason, that I di 1
ises and threats, induced the one
thousand who remained on the coun
cil ground to accede to their propo-
not feel myself bound to comply', inasmuch
as 1 was ignorant of his object. He had
fore sent a similar message, and it was oQ