Cherokee phoenix, and Indians' advocate. (New Echota [Ga.]) 1829-1834, October 06, 1832, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextA w 'll owy [EROK.EE P1KK.MS & INDIAN’S AD VO w soaiffifAD sA®Tff20AT# ©supoisffiss ® s urn. Hun&iBifelb fltOKEE NATION—PROPRIETOR. EDITED BY ELIJAH HICKS, PRINTED WEEKLY BY JO H iff CANDY, iaid in advance, $3 in six i $3 SO if paid in at ju, or $3 50 if paid at t he end of the ^subscribers who can read only the Kikee language the price Will be $9,00 tjvancc, or $9,50 to be paid within the ,jry subscription ivill be considered as lotted unless subscribers give notice tQ jntrary before the commencement of a j. C ll> } »nd all arrearages paid, iy person :;yocu'r!. n * six , subscribers niag responsible to, K ," aymcnt ’ | “ive a seventh gratis. (8u i-,,'"** atJll ressed to the Editor, ’ ‘ attention. 411 ^'receive dwi |p»»d, IV»P ^ D b tit EG. <S ]\Vr.j*J TAJit* UW JW3A.I a«i,a*y kta d$p o^ojau XGFZ TEJBO-r* DOJ*5o®I v ®S.X. TaSO-A TB D8J»5«)K«®.-I, KT tyi B j D4«eJ d»ji*»«ez tb yw- 11**4, o-ya o^p o^ejBa K4o»a.i- n 03<vr ah«A*i«iy, wp*t d»-4- iMift.l Ttrz TEiSJO-J* DBI- Uj. &T.1Z D$P «»®y 4T» iDSLWl-iSi.t- BDLiaiOUJ out in all the loveliness of action, sometimes sparkling in beauty with the emanations of benevolence—ex- reason to believe they -paneling into cheering smiles, sooth tender assiduities-- lEiSLF RIGHTEOUSNESS. lias always been customary for man to think tuoro highly <>■ elf than he ought to think. Th-- bad occasion to complain w ones when went about to es- |liih their own righteousness: and language of many hearts is, we Iricb and increased in goods, and |iu need of nothing; when in fact ayes of Infinite wisdom see that ate poor* and wretched, and crable, and blind, and naked; and j Divine injunction is, be renewed spirit and temper of your minds; tarvel not at the thought of be- |boro again. Some of those persons it is true, le, comparatively speaking, been right iu their dealings and moral in jir conduct; and when the duties the moral law are urged, yield |ir entire assent; and with much [uing honesty reply, all these have kept from our youth up, what we yet? They seem to suppose ft if they commit no murder, speak truth with their neighbor, are ilc in their habits, and observe Sabbath, it is sufficient. But her than that there should be auy on their part, they sometimes Morn, wba* they deem supornurne- |*)f acts, such as may be compared e tithing af mint, anise, cummiq. this, yes. this is the basis on kick they build their hopes for im- prtal life; substituting their own works for the merits of Christ, Millie scripture expressly declares I other foundation can ijo mar!* lay, that by the deeds oi the law no '*b living shall 'he justified; and tin, by grace are ye saved through M, ana that not of your selves, it the gift of God. Besides their Mklity and sutpposed uprightness, “oh are their entire dependence, I inexpressibly below the require* ntt of God’s holy law: this law is oeedingly bioad. reaching even-to ’thoughts and intents of the heart firing also perfect love. It is strict; far cursed is evary one •aoniinuclti not in ail things writ- do the bock of the law to do them ' penalty is overwhelming, thou surely die. Have not all vio- the holy commands of this law? to unless they are made the sub of the regenerating anJ saving f * of God, tney must be visited most awful and condign punish- fi.—Family Visitor. From the Christian Soldier. JE RETALIATION BET WEEN |«Eligion and IBarning |H is stated by some, that the chris* j Lian religion is unfavorable to the progress of human knowledge, and thereforg,.unpropitous to the general diffusion of human happiness. From whatever source this declar ation may have originated, whether from the pretended philosopher or the professed saint, it ought in jus tice to be pronounced libel upon both Christianity unfriendly to the culti vation of the intellect, and to the happiness of man! The proposition in all its applications, in theory and in practice, in speculation and in ex periment, is utterly fa)s,c. The gos pel in its whole structure, is prop! tous to the highest cultivation of the , Who was Newton, Locke, iniv.'v-. • But were Campbell, ana ****••'',’• • not these men trained up amid Chris tian institutions, and uuder the gener al infl tencoof a Christian philosophy? And did they not drink deep at ihe fountain of bnman knowledge. Nor have we any dissolved the pearl of their salvation in the draught. Can not then, the same individual be, at th same time, u profound scholar and a devoted Christian? Let the experience of the past answftr"the question. Now, from the situation of man, from his state of mutual independence, originates the necessity of benevolence in liis disposition; his happiness de pends almost entirely on the cultiva tion of his social powers; without a reciprocation of heneficienoo, ho can not be happy- But how can this re ciprocation bo secured without gov ernment, without laws and without order? And no good government can be permanent without virtue and in telligence in the people. A constitu tion written ou paper, is utterly worthless unless Jt be written in the hearts of the people. Whatever therefore tends to prepare men for thfe dressings of a good and a wise government, must exalt their nature, increase (heir happiness, and promote Vhe benevolen purposes for which they were created. And such is the tendecy ofa well directed education, a virtuous.'example, and a sound phil osophy. But noteing can be more uniform, extensive and efficient Ilian Christian truth. Without fhfceoncur- rence of this cause, all others must bo feeble in their operations, and al together uncertain in their ’ results. Unless men have intelligence and Christian principle enough to govern themselves, they may be plum ed in to all the horrors of a civil war, and yet emerge from the most disastrous revolution, a lawless nation of sanguin ary slaves. To govern a people in peace and happiness, where ignor ance is the mother of devotion, and passive obedience is the only article in the bill of civil rights, is no less difficult to tame the hglitenings gf heaven, or chain the angry ocean. But we a.e told, by those who love the cout deception, that they may believe a lie. and embrace with eargerness every pretext to mutilate the claims and enervate the authority of Christianity—that religion has a paralizing influence upon all the en ergies of.man, so much so, that some of its advocates have not aUainod to more than half of their ordinary growth, and that others have actual ly sunk into intellectual dwarfs.— Now spread out the world like a mass, bid earth’s dead multitudes revive, and of all the nations that ever rose or fell, where does yonder sun behold a people more active and more vigorous, more iutelligeut, and more enterprising, more all that adorns the mind, improves the heart, and cle vatei the character of man, than that people who have most cordially and unreservedly acknowJedged the Lord to be their G"d, and who have moat humbly and devoutly obeyed his sa cred mandates. Shut out the world rom the influence of religion and let- lers, ard sin and misery with all their overwhelming power, would sweep over the earth with a velocity more terrible than the desola.ing powers of the universe. But toayert from earth’s devoted people, duch a ca tastrophe, is the part of he gospel, and of sanctified learning. Intelligence and christiaui'y are con genial in their nature. Tteir com biued action, the most discouraging circumstances cannot resist—the niost appalling opposition cmnot van quish; they m ike their appeal to the whole man, illuminating the darknoss of the intellect, and correcting the obliquities of the heart. They purge the conscience from the invisible stains of guilt, and impress anew upon the soul of man the image of Ins ma ker; Thqy inypjve, mojjlii and reg- " ,h « affections au<) cmoiidris NUL L IFIC.fl TION DOC TRINE. ofthe Heart, and ht l|jcy urea* i me grc?i oracle of southern politics. Extract of Jndge Clayton’s letter wyjt- ten on a call made upon him, oh the subject of nullification. We know that its great length is objefctinable, but as the opinion advocates the right of a state to nullify the.laws of the United States sus taining the Indian rights, we have thought it important to publish an extract. “As your meeting, douhless, in a spirit of what it conceived to be its rights, has subjected me to a politi cal catechism, under a menace, will it bo offended, if I, in my turn, with out such rigour, seek to know “what are their sentiments in regard” to Mr. Jefferson as a statesman? He has mopited, and justly received, thb title />.f* -»nf r?.. — ...i. .ii ii .. * ofaii Apostle of Freedoni. He mg voices, and mingling with the outpourings of the purest affections—displaying all the varied tints of’ domestic charity, of cordial friendship, of devoted patriot ism, of universal philanthropy—pour ing upon earth’s benighted captives the light of science, and imparting to her famished children the bread of heaven. Such achievements must be attended with more substantial glory than the splendors of wealth, and the triumphs of war—it will be no less than the prevalence of mind over mat ter—the success of knowledge against ignorance—the victory of icligion over vice—ibo triumphs of heaven on earth. F. He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which lie must pass hiuisolf, for every man hath need to be foigiven. From Simpson’s Plea for -Religion. THE TRUTH AND DIVINITY OF THE SCRIPTURE There are four grand arguments for the truth of the Bible. 1st. The mir acles it records. (These are easily proved to have been recorded and published at the time they profess to have been, and not having been dis puted for several hundred years af ter, cannot be doubted.) 2d. The prophecies it contains. (Sue those in the Old Testament, held by the Jews then and to this day, who dis believe in the Mesiali, Jesus Christ, and the Nejv Testament: but which prophecies any chill may sec fulfilled in Christ and in the events of his time.) The celebrated infidel Ro chester was converted by reading (he 53d chapter of Isiuh. 3d. The goodnes of the doctiiuo, (the great est iiilide 1 s acknowledge it and no one can deny it.) 4tlir The moral character of the penman. The miracles flow from divine power; the prophecies from divine understanding; the excellence of the doctrine from divine goodness; and the moral purity of the penman, from divine purity. Thus Christianity is built upon these four immutable pillars, the power the understanding, the good ness, and tho purity of God. The Bible must be the invention of good men or angels; of bad men or devils; or of God. a It could not bo tho invention of good men or angels; for they neither would nor could make a book aud tell lios all the time they wfcre wri ting it, saying, ‘Thus saith thn Lord,’ when it was their own invention. It could not bo the invention bad mou or devils, for they would not have made a book which commands all duty, forbids all sin, and condemns their own souls to hell. I therefore draw this conclusion— The Bible must bp given by inspira tion of God. In his ujj.miona evety statesman is safe who has the true and proper ven eration for civil liberty. Will any thing he has said be good authority with your meeting? If so, then matk his own words, uttered in oppo sition to the Sedition Law, one, not more unconstitutional than the tariff act. “When (said this great mail) powers art* assumed, which have not been delegated, a Nullification of the ACT is the RIGHTFUL REM EDY: That every state has a NATURAL RIGHT, in cases not within tiie compact, to NULLIFY, of their OWN AUTHORITY, all assumptions of power by others, WITHIN TllEIR LIMITS’ that without this right, they would be un- dar liu; dominion, absolute and un limited, of whomsoever might exer cise Ibis right of judgment for them.” More, then, yoa have my opinion in full. Of Mr. Jefferson’s political creed, I shall never be nfr«iid or a- sharned. Whenever his doctrines cease to be considered orthodox by tho southern people, for thfey never were in odour in the north, I feel en tirely confident I am unfit to be their representative, and the execution of the threat of your meeting can never come too soon for my own inclination. It is true that Mr, Jefferson has not pointed out tho mode and manner of nullifying a law; but this must be loft to (lie wisdom arid discretion of the stale whose rights are invaded by the assumed power, and must be as various as the acts are varied that violate the constitution. Any plan, I care not ivliat it is, that rids the state of the oppressive measure, is a nulli fication of that measure. To nullify is simply nothing more nor loss than to render null and void. All uncon stitutional laws are uuil and void. Is this objected to? 1 presume not —- Then your meeting, in its very first resolution, has declared that the Urilf act is “unjust and inconsistent with the spirit of the constitution.” Is it too much to say that an unjust Ibw, ore inconsistent with the spirit 4i the constitution, ought to be null and void? As much as this doctrine is now derided, I affirm, without the fear of contradiction, that it is the very doctrine upon which Georgia has acted from the foundation of her government. And 1 will prove It.— I lay down those positions: 1st. That an unconstitiWional law is NO LAW, and no man or commu nity is bound to obey it, nay, they are bound to resist it, for every man is sworn to support th* constitution- 2d. A law “unjust and inconsistent with the spirit of the constitution,” is a violation of the constitution, be cause it is a perversion of that instru ment, a perversion is a breach ot its intention, and according to all rules of construction, legal or moral, the intentt,on must govern. 3d. That the general government can pass no law for which it does not find an authority in the constitution, and that if it does, it is no more bind ing upon the slates than if passed by a foreign Station, for ail to all migrant- ed powers it is to these states a com pletely foreign government! The two first positions needs no- commentary, the last suggests these reflections. Suppose Great Britain should pass an act for the benefit of her manufacturers, to operate in Georgia, what would the stale do? I care not what, but whatever was done, precisely that ought to be done, in relation to the same act passed b$ (he federal government, for the right is wholly and absolutely usurped in both cases. If South Carolina, our neighboring state, were to pass such' a law', every body would see i's ab surdity, and Georgia would nullify it in an instant; then where is the dif ference between one state and twen ty three states? Where is the dif ference between the northern states doing this tiling, in their separate stale legislatures, or, under the pre tence of constitutional authority, com bining and meeting in the hulls of Con gress f„r the 6amc purpose, if both me!hods he equally out of the pale of the constitution? Why should we not as readily resist an usurped act of ihe general government as that of any ou tlier government? There is no -eason for it, and in four distinct caies has th** state of Georgia applied, as Mr. Jcffe.rsou cells it, this rightful rem edy. May I again respectfully ask yoiir meeting, “what art* its sentiments in regard” to Governor Troup's politi cal principles? He says, “whatever a slate does in its sovereign capacity, will he right ” Acting upon this principle, in 1825, when the general governuent attempted to annuli the old, by what was called the nrw trea ty, he solemnly declared it should not be done, stating boldly that he “would employ all the limited means in bis power to prevent it,” and or dered 'lie Hancock tioop of horse to hold themselves, in readiness. VAhat stronger 1 'revolutionary tendency” could any measure exhibit > But this was not all, the Secretary of War order ed troops into the nation to overawe the state, listen, while perhaps tho blood will curdle with indignation, at Gen. Gain*’s despatch to that officer: •'Col Chambers (said he) with five companies of the first, and Major Douolio, w'tth four companies of the fourth regiment of infantry, have ta ken the positions assigned them, viz: the former a! Marshall's Ferry, Flint River, and the latter at Princeton, Chattahoochee, with instructions cor responding with yours of tlie 21st of lust month.” Did this alarm Gov- mor Troup? Let me bring to your ecolleetion that patiiot’s refiJy to en recoiled Mr. Adams: “The legislature of Goorgia, will, at its first meeting, be advised to resist any effort which may be made to wrest from the state the territory acquired by that treaty, and no matter by what authority that effort be made. If tbe legislating fail to vindicate (hat right, the res ponsibility will be theirs, not mine.” What become of the new (reaty? Georgia nullified it. She resisted the authority uf the general governmert hocause its act was unconstitutional, and boing iu the right, though force was not only threatened, but arrayed, she triumphad, and the old treaty was sustained. So, tho federal troops marched to Flint River, end (hen marched back again. This is one net of nullification. I understand that ihe ouly objection to nullification is. it has a tendency to revolution an4 bloodshed, and to bring- the fedepr) government iuto contempt. Wfint could so effectually produce all these events as the case 1 have just merit tioned? The shcond instance was the case of Tassels. A mandate was sent from the Supreme Court of the Unit ed States, t* suspend his execution until he could be beard befrre that Court on a writ of error. What said the legislature? m

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Cherokee phoenix, and Indians' advocate. (New Echota [Ga.]) 1829-1834, October 06, 1832, Image 1