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< • V %' . ' r 4 " 4 * - *' v.fT ' »■ • \« .5 .. * * » • €lE«OKE£ PHffi^IX IcTJHOl . & INDIANS’ ADV©€ATE m v« Siw JSOIKSM# 3*MI l ra®£'$! , 8 SSSSSOIE 3, S16®£» OT3l£*I2) 39. OhEROKEB NATION—PROPRITEOR. edited by Elijah hicks, VRIBTXV WEKKI.Y At *250 O' pa d in advence, $3 m six tt-rnths, or $9 ^Oil paid ai t lie end of the ^ mihscribers who can raa d only the Ch *rokec language the price «: 11 be #2,00 iu advance, cr #2,50 to be paid within the ^ Every subscription will be considered as continued unless subscribers give notice to rhe contrary before the commencement ol a Pew yean, and all arrearages paid. Anv person procuring six subscribers %n l becoming responsible for the payment, •hall receive a seventh gratis. „3»All tetters addressed to the editor, jlost paid, will receive due attention. q JX. X-Jjt *'&& -U UAV^kViA^u! 1«AG JObdity KTJl u#e cpeJita VCfZ TEdlO-J* liOJAiSI**#-! TCp-Z ftP To90*A TB UBJ.SAMJl, 'StA 0>aJB4 P*J*I»EZ TK ytv — o-yvi D^p 0»ejBa i*4..»a^- otvyz ©><ui aiiWJia<»y, wpw* ds-4- 0»Jlta W4.».< t»«aB(T», TCTZ TEJ0O-8" DO). AlvaRl.l. kT.lZ D^P G,»yW CH?.iCU ill’ o*.T»5«th»td. culiar character from the tenet, so generally diffused throughout the East, respecting the trausrnigiatiou of souje. Accortli 'g to this beliaf, the spirit of mao, after death, is not conveyed ini® a different slate ot ex istence, but goes to animate some oth er mortal body, or evou one belonging to the brute creation. The recepta cle into which it then enters is deci ded by tbe course of action followed during tbe present life. The virtu ous man may rise from an bumble caste to tbe rank of a prince or even of a Bramin, while the depraved not only sink iuto degradation us human beings, hut oven have their soujs^en- ClqStJ'liiij? tflb\v, l "tf)® Hindoo oracles endeavor to establish a certain con formity between tbo offences com mit led and tbe condition uuder which they are expiated. The thief is eon- verted into some animal addicted to steal the articles which were the wonted objects of his own depreda- J rid of all others, accordingly, that moil determines our hopas or fears of tte future fate of the young. To leel no joy in such pursuits; to listen carelessly to the voice which brings s a china guide out instruction; to see the 'oil raised which conceals the counsels of tho deity, and lo show no umolous at the discovery, ore symp toms tf a ivoitk and torpid spirit—of a mini unworthy «f the advantages it tion. The pilferer of grain is meta llic sum expended for the tea, cof fee, wiue, spirits, and sugar which were impoiUd during the sam** peri od—loss than two months interest on the sum thus expended! *The same, doubtless, has been true of every one ofjlui twenty years which have e- Inpsud since foreign missions were fi st uinloi laktin aid yet what un a- moout of good have these triflint: 8unis produced/ Sue, (in tho m;s -ions of the American B«»id nWe.) 6 possesses, and which i* fitted only for the huriilitv of sensual aud ignoble j 59,000 pupils unds*r instruction pleasuu. Of those on the contrary I churrhcs omsibSinhfd, b:vb-« who distinguish themselves by the ( 1809 tut-mb** lovo of Lnoa;ledgc, who follow with j Bible and t ?.'« ®‘i e l apTfofortn thu most ‘ttmuwa- «s. It is tho oharaetor : 1 UOO.OUO hie pressa natural to one gi-i'j' their idtd g.» rtuf.li, and which, there- church?*. 'dlUtiW bail ’. 'I fora, promtoa wull of their maturity’ We foifscoi’or them, at least, a Ido of pure and Virtuous euj-ymeut, aud wo arc williig to anticipate no com mon share if future usefulness and splendor.—Alisons Sermons. S.8X.ZOXOU3< THE BIBLE THE CODE OF LIB ERTY. Even the pel i ion I freedom Of Greece and Remo tv. a far from be ing founded »n a correct understand ing of the rights ©f man. la goner-'.I. it was merely the freedom of a proud aristocracy t© trample upon the poor, and hold foreigners in cruel bandage. The civil libejty of pagan antiquity was not inconsistent with tho most m rciless oppressions of the lower or ders of the «vLoo tins could be ventured upon with iuipmity, nor with the most revolting and brutal izing forms of slavery. The pagan appears t> bad no idea of tha rights of men, as men hut only of the rights •This own republic to prasurvu its freedom and, if possible, lo bring all others in subjection to itself. Bn* the idea of tha light of even an in dividual state to be free, was not in considerable adv-Mice upou tbe abso lute despotism vf the East; ami the freedom of the classical ages, imper fect it was. has not failed to exert a very beneficial influence on ih<* gov ernments of lb« western world — T''©re is iu antiquity, however, uo exoinrde of a free representative gov ernment, founded on tbe principle of (equal rights till the idea was suggest ed by tbe institutions of Moses and fully realized in tbo primitive organi zation of tho Christian Church. E- ven while the. Hebrews were under the monarchy ol their no*;-.- sove reigns, the limitations of the royal power were such, (list (he meatiest subjects enjoyed far more liberty, tb^n m'ii '*.o : ,i tf‘ii' i l< d it. the boasted ariftor’eatie republics of ancieut Greece. ! t is wol! kuown, that the spirit of Act'd cm, which is now diffu sing itsolf through the old world, and 'renderingdespotism every where tn- Seour*. owes its or gin to the foun ders of out' own free insiituiious; and it is equally well known, though not proclaimed with equal loudness and frequency, that our anegstors de rived their ( «oti«»s of civil govern ment and equal rights directly Lorn the Bible. If, then, we would teach our veung men to correct the partial and unjust notions of civil rights which prevailed in .pagan re publics, or to understand the princi ples on which our own institutions rest, or to sympathize with all that is really valuable in tho spirit of free dom that is now abroad iu the world, we must, in all our plans of,educa tion^connect the thorough study of the Biblo vritlnho sludy of the great matters of antiquity.-P/"/. Stowe --Bib. Repository * morpbosted into a rat; while he who i-stole roots of fruit became an apo.—. The person (bus lowered in tbo scale of being must pass through a long succession o degraded births eic In* can resume the human form aud un- doivments. This belief is so familisr to the Hindoo, that his conversation is filled with allusions to it If he see any one sufforiug under ayils that seem unmerited, lie at unca pronoun ces them tho ponalty of sin commit ted m a previous stage aud form of existence. Even on seeing a cow o* a dog receive a severe beating, he infers that tbe soul which auimntw* iiieiu must, uuder its human shape, have committed some offence worthy of such castigation. Wives who con sider themselves injuriously treated by rlieir husbands, or even servants by their masters, indulge the earnest hope, that m some futufe state of be- iug, they shall exchange conditions, aud obtain the'opportunity of a sig nal retaliation. — Edinburg Cabinet Library, JVo. VII, History of EritUk India, Vol. 2. it ivorshi; %■ 1\ intranet - wkiskv-v fr«>«j arc asms cl h* of chai itv * fe'd rtf® table ■ ^ m 1 V V11: i 1 Biyv \\* I i> U It aud irdei s I •<f thw»* < i « fill* l> Prom tho Ncw-Ywk Observer. !\ ! i ii»y otlifr.-s as as suhos! t ll U H jmh COST OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. ; of tlwir valips, sad r In the following (able, which has • otb#r laxnrles, tlw> iwx been carefully prepared from tfiicul documents, the first column sbuiis iha amouut contrioutcd to the Amer ican Board of Foreign Missions by the Presbyteiiao churches in eavdi state south of! N»\v-England, during the year 1831,; the sc.coud colinun shows tbe nunjuor of communicauls in those ehurchflfe;& the tbird-, the sum ontiibutcd bl r eacli communicant by THE lM'PJUSON :f.D 2d!SSe • 0N A R! E a CauUude.1. DEP.Vm M'Y N'nvouibo-r 1 TRAN8MIGliATiON OF SOULS. Thr Hind{0 crend derives its pe- Youtk the Season oj Religious Im provement.— Iu ©very period of life, lilt-; acquisition of knowledge is one of the most plcssin? enjoymeuts of tho human mind But in youth there are circumstances which make it productive of higher enjoyment. It is then that every thing has the charms of uovclty, that curiosity and fancy are .awake; and that the heart swells with the anticipations of fu ture eminence and utility. Even iu tbi>*o lower branches of instruction which we call mere accomplishments, there is something always pleasing to the young in their acquisition. They seem to become voty wall educated persons; they adorn if they do not dig nify humanity; aud what is far more while they give an elegant employ ment te the hours of loisure am! re laxation, they afford a means of con tributing to tit© purity and innocence of domestic life. But in the acqui sition of knovvledge of a higher kiud in tho hours when the young gradually begin the study of (he laws of nature, and. the facilities of tne human mind, or of the magnificent revelations of the Gospel, there is a pleesmo of a sublime nature. The cloud which in their infant years seemed to cover nature from their view, begins grad ually to revolve. Tbo world in which they are placed, opens with all its wonders upon (heir eye; their powers of attention and .observation seoiu to expaud with tho scene be fore them; aud, while they see for tho first liaiH, the immensity of lb© universe of God, and mark the ma- jitalic simplicity of those laws by illicit its operations are conducted, they feel as if they wero awakened to a higher species of being, and ad mitted into nearer intercourse with the Author of Nature.' It is this pe- 1 Amo 1 !!!! I conl’batorf No. ofCotn. Avctare am States. municantj,. to IttO'l \n ISSI. CtjJ. m. N. York*- g 1.1,462 21 76,178 44 3 N. Jersey j Ponnsylv’ia, 4,0*46 60 14,!J02 27 2 4.2S0 as, 42,421 10 1 S. Caroliiic i.b02 101 7,190 IS 0 Ohio i ,l! l 0 09( 816 10 21,491 4 9 Virginia Mieh. Ter. 10,004 8 3 203 14' 005 CO 0 Georgia 221 20 2,151 10 3 Indiana 40 09 2,927 1 3 Delaware 102 00 3,410 3 0 Maryland 'le.ncssoo i 381 20 1,172 118 0 ’ 96 12 8,090 i 1 » Pis. ot Col. 101 00 1,146 » 6 N. Carolina 43 50 8,111 8 4 Kontucky 695 81 7,626 9 2 Mississippi 164 00' 128 , v 13 0 Alabama 29 20 . 2.091 l 4 Illinois 13 Ou 1,138 1 1 AI issonri i 1,009 ___ ?;uins Total. 46,250 U7j217yXS4 UEMaIIKj. LT Sii, F have voceii lathe Pro at, t; i ;■ -.r iv; '«i Of America;) Boon! - •wowinmisouc.r* ! for Foreign Misv^s. turns muted in ! your letter of the 3 t iost , mid am in strurted to iufurni von, tint having, I on mature consideration sc.l.- jl.i him- ! self that the Legislature;. >■< the re- ! per-live states have povt«-:r to cxicnrl ! their laws over at) persons livin’ wit!)- ployed to break down his power, antT iheusands and hundreds of thousands of gold aud silver would be looked upon as tho dust in the balance, when compared to the great object of lib- Hinting our biethren from sutsh unjust and Cruel slavery. And he who would not aid in effecting ttie great object, .n* rnnlter by what. Christian ot mi; called, wi-uld justly subject i'imicit to the indignation ot iiibulicd humanity. But o.ir despot is at hand. He' btemhes with ns the air nfiich enr Fathers in* ghi ns to br-licvc v ns tile acj..uJa mdimUltca v'.«s!f<nuig ; it. H. ivn. ore over within our reach,*- •a , ; and at our disposal, and the liberation, do-j ,v iiie rnistiunririeis is within onr power. Ijim ! Nm m e we called upon to fii out nr- -g! mami-n.s to cross seas, noi to batter ■ ; down th>’ c.:s lc of llic despot with >.hs : P n rrioi iind hali, nor expend hundreds ! -*.;n snd tiionsand . to accomplish so great - chiistis-c- on object; we nave ii n o«r power in -.xurct, the.’ ,R tow weeks Irom tltis day, by going th^ full spirii j t 1 ’ ? h© ballot box and voting agninet >• /r above *|! I t» ; rr le-cleptir-n ot ?flndvcw Jaclcspn, to - ■ f '' r '0i'sh‘ the castlo of despuism ovt ihrrn- w'.iu it hatP-been upwards of three years in buiid.ng, drive the tyiantf fium it into his original obscority v re«*' csi.'b'isb the cmpiio of law, and M the missionaries go Jrce. Wo ask, where, where is thd Christian, where the citizen, Where . the man. whe will infuse to came forward, and lend lus power, tha t\- erciscol wiiic.h will not cost him ubmin.singlexenl. to aid the country of iiie L s .t|n*r who has shown himself to be a despot; his ionscience to be irnper- \ioustothe obligations ©( his oath, and b : s heart sirelul against the t ries of st-fi'ciing humanity? ‘A bore, no ask. is the man? Let him who would refuse to unite in a ouu>,<“ so holy, hold up his hand—let nn suad out before augds and-men, or V.’ar ) S iu their boiinrlaries, *1 liiat w hen j and announce his insensibility to stick thus exlGHiltd tbe vuinus acts o'” a call, that he may not bo mistaken Congress providing a ecedis-r in cas«s of Fndi ol pro- 1, .varcnuise, (before any i tlif fulnre. righteous corumunity in Bat no, we will cot !>e- luconsisleut with th**sv law-s, be- j licve that there lives one man, having ....... . I ■ . . ^.% , • f I, r.* 1 • i. . • t r * I l ?. I . C fX T M IW on I ,1 . ... ■ L ... (loiu© inonurative. hr has no autliori- | ty to iutvi'erc, under tho oirenm-j i stances slued iu the memorial. 1 havu tlie bouar Id be, very r.ispectfully, your ahadiaut serv’t, , LEWIS i \bb. j William Reed, Esq. Clisumn of 1 A. Frrhfigs of a man, to say nothing ni CluisMr.ns who woulil, tinder such ctrcunwlanofs, (eel indifferent So (ho '■•■it ii. tho heralds oi the gospel, or w uhh, iii ins cfitMis to release 11icni Item a bondage su lawless, so rtucl, and so erjiist hen itome was freo, the declar- -<• * '* one of her sons—no mattei* tv *rsib!o lii® condiite.n, 'Icm a lio- 1. It seems then that i!17,000 | Christians, iu this favored laud, h*v<; ( contributed during one year $46.000, J or cents each, lor tho couveisign j of tii®4ie.ttneruw®ihl! Aud yet lueiu j are inoa who talk «f'foreign missions ’ho Prudential ( umraUtt v drauung tbo couutry of silver.’ Lot B. C. F. M. Boston ” such men examine the following si .lc- j A stale, in Picsidsnt Jackson r: man ciltzen, mud© th« <iesp»t r** jc inent, derived also from official uoc-1 v ’iew of tho subject, in. > thei oio. u ! ins hold in the certain prospect ii he uateuts. of tho sums expended for ou i nullify “act* ot ‘fougruss’ !!! —and he j «>d not, that sll Rome would rise to uk s upu.i himself, to • xercise the iithgly pierogat. v a tu decide iiic qiu^* tion, though l.ii« Suprein-* Couu nas rendered against hisdocistu.—wincli, liomwcr, lie ruspocts as intiw as be ly five articles of luxury, imported trom foreign countrius, during tho twelve monlbs coding September 30th of tho spine year. Value. , Teas, Cotl'ce, Wines, Spirits, Sugar, $1,418, 037 6,317.G6G 1,673,058 1,037,737 4,937.824,} gll r.8,822 •2• Tho population of the United States in 1831 was but a tilth* umre than 13,000,000. The sum sent to furcign countries for the five luxuries (tea, coffee, n me, spirits, &■ sugar,) amouuted, therefore, to more than onu dollar, olyan average, for every man, woman, .nul child, m Ihecoun try, white and hWk, bond and free! All was expeAidciffor self-grnlijicalion, and was, tlierofove, rational] but when a few Christians expend twen ty cents each for tho luxury of doing good to the souls and bodies of mill ions of their fellow creatures, it is extravagance and fanaticism !’ 3. The whole sum uonlnbutod for ilia support of foreign and Indian missions, during'the year 1831, by the Presbyterians, Reformed Dutch, Congregationalists , Episcopations , Baptist, and Methodists, in this coun try, was less than one per etij>. of defend the victim and avenge the ia- sailed honor of the Republic. Bur here, in An, eric a, Ijotv have o ■. lie.:i’iS jclt anil our energies heert inplovcd during iho many mouths that iloas liiw “nets of Congress,'" tf.e tea- j the von oi ol two of our citizens have sun is- be is "‘independent oj both," j been mournfully nttorir.g “the corn- was “born to comiaami,” and the peo-; plaint, -wc, who are .American citizens, pie to obey! i are here incarcerated m this Icallueme Liu: wo leave tins branch of tho jprisoit-our crime being the preaching of discussion to ilia judgment of un en- the everlasting gorptl to the aborigines lightened public, tuni proceed. j (j the country? Yos, Feilow-Cilizsiis, it h lie. w ho i Will wc stand still any longer?— ought to both© President of tbo peo ple, tho guardian of our rights, me supporter of tho constitution,;tuo t*x editor of llto law, hut who has told us he is abeve I a tv, or ulial is the of bulb Congress and tbe Supreme Will we permit tbo opportunity to pass which is now to bo brought to ourrrry doors, lo lib»*rnle our broth ers? Will any man consider tin* toil lor the accomplishment ol so great ail same thiug, that lie is ^ludepe-nJeat'* ukjeot too great, which requires only ill At ©ach pursow shall vote asruinst the Court;” and that he shall execute ‘ reflection qf Andrew Jackstni iho laws, and administer the Consti tution according to his interpretation of lliuiu; it is this usurper, who, with more than kingly daring, lutdts on composedly aud sees a stale axeicis- ing usurped power, to stl)ict aud dis grace mentor preachingthu gospel to a remnant of the original owners of our csunlrj!. 1 f a Fagan despot were to act (lies, though ten tliuusuud miles dis tant, and did oceans roll between us and the victims of his malico, all the energies of our souls would bu cm- Ou. Fathers pledged llicmstdvei, each to tlie other, in their property, aad their sacred tumor, eye, and. in their lives, to win the boon of ft ecdom —to lay Hie fouhdatian of equal and just laws in this VVest«rn world—lo secure lo everu man his lights, and cunlirr upou all the blessings of frefi gaverument. Nobly did Ihejr resolve) and nobly did tliay achiete. Trass* ura aud blood, aud life, were freely <lvad, and the eye of the dying pat- dot, catching a glimpse of the glori ous future, would impart to his heat fe i ST