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CIVILIZATION OF THE INDIANS.
Message from the President of the United
Stales, transmitting a Report from the Sec
retary of War of the expenditures made un
der the act to provide for the Civilization
of the Indian Tribes; January 22. 1822.
Read, and ordered to lie upon the table.
To the House of Representatives.
In compliance with a resolution of the
House of Representatives, requesting- the
President of the United States “ to cause
to be laid before this House an account of
the expenditures made under the act to
provide for the civilization of the Indian
Tribes, specifying the times when, the per
sons to whom, and *he particular purpose
for which, such expenditures have been
made,” I herewith transmit a report from
the Secretary of War
JAMES MONROE.
Washington, January 20, 1822.
department of war, 19 th Jan. 1822.
The Secretary of War, to whom was re
ferred the resolution of the House of Rep
resentatives of the 31st ultimo, “request
ing the President of the United States to
cAse to he Ibid before this House, an ac
cmint of the expenditures made under the
act to provide for the civilization oftbe In
dian Tribes, specifying the times when, th-.
persons to whom, and the particular pur
pose for which, such expenditures have
been made,” has the honour to transmit
the enclosed statement, which contains the
information required by the resolution.
The Secretary of War would respectful
ly refer to the report made by this Depart
ment to the House of Representatives on
the 15th of January, 1820, in compliance
with a resolution of that House, of the
progress that had been made in the civili
zation of the Indians, which, with the reg
ulations, a copy of which accompanies this
.will indicate the principles upon
%*ich the several allowances for buildings
■and tuition, referred to in the statement
Jiave been made.
It may be proper to observe that, by a
rigid construction of the rules adapted for
the expenditure of the appropriation, the
schools at Cornwall, in Connecticut, and
the Great Crossings in Kentucky, would ap
pear to be excluded from any benefit from
it. It was believed, however, as there was
not a sufficient number of schools in the In
dian country, at the time the allowances
were made, to absorb the whole appropri
ation, that it would advance the object of
Congress in passing the act, to include
(them in fbe appropriation. All which is
respectfully submitted.
J. C. CALHOUN/
To the President of the United States.
[By the “Statement of Expenditures
Sic-., it appears, that from the 12th of Feb.
1820, to the 24th ofDec. 1821, both inclu
sively, the aggregate sum paid for the civ
ilization of the Indian Tribes, was $16,605
THE MISSIONARY.
80. Os this sum, $13,989 80 have been
applied through the different Missipnary
establishments of the Moravians, —the
A. B. C. for Foreign Missions, —the United
Foreign Missionary Society,—the Baptist
Missionary Societies,—and the Synod of
South Carolina and Georgia. For Indian
youths at the Mission School in Cornwall,
Conn. $1428, and the Baptist Mission School
at Great Crossings, Ky. $400; and the sum
of $778- has been paid for the Rev. Dr.
Morse’s visit of observation and inspection.]
department of war, February 29, 1820.
The following regulations, in addition to
those prescribed in the circular of the Sd
of September, 1819, have been adopted,
with the approbation of the United States,
to govern the future distribution of the sum
appropriated by Congress for the civil
ization of the Indians, among indi
viduals or societies who have estab
lished, or contemplate establishing,
schools for the education oflndian children,
in conformity to the above mentioned cir
cular, and who desire the co-operation of
the government:
The position selected for the establish
ment, a plan of the buildings contemplated,
with an estimate of the costs, to be submit
ted to the Secretary of War, to be laid be
fore the President.
Government will, if it has the means and
approves the arrangement, pay two-thirds
of the expense Os erecting the necessary
buildings.
No part of the money to be advanced un
til after the buildings are commenced; and
• ne-fourlh to be reserved until they are
completed, The payment to ha made on
the certificate of the agent oflndian affairs,
for the tribe or nation, in which the estab
lishment is located, as to the facts of the
commencement and completion of the
buildings.
The President of the United States will
contribute, out of the annual appropriation,
to each institution which may be approved
of by him, a sum proportionate to the nwn
bei of pupils belonging to each, regard be
ing had to tha necessary expense of the es
tablishment, and the degree of success
which has attended it.
No advance to be made except for the
buildings, till the school is in actual opera
tion ; of which fact, and the number of pu
pils belonging to it, the certificate of the
superintendent or person having the prin
cipal control of the institution, will be suffi
cient evidence.
A report will be annually made for each
establishment on the Ist of October, of the
number and names of the teachers and oth
er persons belonging to it; the number
of students; the number which have com
pleted their course and left the institution,
since the first day of October of the prece
ding year; the number entered; the
amount of disbursements for the same peri
od ; and the value and description of prop
erty on hand; which report will be certifi
ed by the superintendent or persons having
the principal control of the establishment.
It is considered to be the duty of all per
sons who may be employed, or attached to
any institution, not only to set a good exam
ple of sobriety, industry and honesty, but,
as far as practicable, to impress on the
minds of the Indians the friendly and benev
olent views of the government towards
them, and the advantage to them in yield
ing to the policy of government, and co-op
erating with it in such measures as it may
deem necessary for their civilization and
happiness. A contrary course of conduct
cannot fail to incur the displeasure of gov
ernment, as it is impossible that the object
which it has in view can be effected, and
peace habitually preserved, if the distrust
ofthe Indians, us to its benevolent views,
should be excited.
J. C. CALHOUN.
EXTRACT FROM
DR. STAUGHTON’S ADDRESS,
Delivered at the opening of the Columbian
College, in the District of Columbia, Jan
uary 9, 1822.
It is far from being the sentiment of the
General Convention of the Baptist Denomi
nation,or of any of the individuals who have
been concerned in the erection of the buil
ding in which we are this day assembled,
that a liberal education is an essential qual
ification in a Christian minister. A vast
number of excellent men are to be found in
the churches, and will be succeeded by
hundreds more, who, without the advantar
ges of literature, familiar with the doc
trine and power of the gospel, and called,
as we believe, of God, to their office, have
been instrumental in the conversion and
sanctification of the hearts of multitudes.
May the Supreme Head of the church still
more abundantly crown their pious and la
borious endeavours. But these very men
are, for the most part, among the first to
regret that the treasures of knowledge
have, to them, never been unfolded, and
many of them are among the. most liberal
encouragers of theological schools. Attain
ments, such as the apostles of Christ were
permitted to realize, who for three years
passed their pupilage under the instructions
of their heavenly Master, and who were af
terwards endowed with the astonishing gift
of tongues, it were vain to anticipate ; but
GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD AXD PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.— Jesus Christ.
MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK CO. GA.) MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1822.
surely the improvement society has made,
during the past thirty years, intimates the
propriety of a corresponding one in the
minister ofthe sanctuary. Surely, without
relying on a translation, how much soever
approved, it is desirable that a publick
teacher be able to read the pages of inspi
ration in tha languages in which they were
written. Unacquainted with the construc
tion of bis mother tongue, with the history
of nations, with the economy of the eartb
and heavens, and with the science f com
position, he must deplore the privation he
suffers, when called to defend the truths
which are dearer than life, in the presence
of adversaries who have arrayed them
selves in all the armont 1 which learning can
furnish. Os the sober use made by the
apostle Paul of his familiarity with Grecian
poets, we have a beautiful specimen in his
speech before (he Areopagus at Athens. In
the present age, when missionaries are pas
sing into almost every region of the earth,
it is evident that, to enable them with the
greater facility to acquire new languages,
and to translate (he scriptures from the ori
ginal text, a sound and extensive edneation
is not only desirable but necessary. It is
admirably ordained in Providence that the
powers of reasoning during the stages of
childhood and youth are feeble, while the
memory is in full vigour, and industriously
engaged in collecting materials for the fu
ture service of the understanding. This
arrangement in nature inculcates the pro
priety of commencing a course of study,
and particularly the study of languages,
where so mneb is to be recollected, as ear
ly as practicable. Pious youth, oalied by
the churches to officiate in the ministry of
the gospel, should beware lest the golden
period for wental improvement forever es
cape them. The observations lam offer
ing are predicated on the fact, that ourcel
lege embraces a Theological as well as a
Classical department.
It is unnecessary to insist on the sacred
importance of education in general. Many
of the ablest authors of ancient and mod
ern times have exhibited its value.—What
inheritance, equally precious and perma
nent, can a parent bequeath?—Where is
the man that does not aspire at tho conso
lation of redacting, in life’s decline, that he
has trained up his children in the way that
they should go ? One consideration must
not be forgotten.—Children are the hope
ofthe coming age. A frar years will intro
duce upon the stage of publick action ano
ther generation of men, who, when we are
sleeping with our fathers, will offer to the
world examples, and spread through it
principles, that shall prove useful or detri
mental, corresponding With the direction
that education shall hafe communicated.
Other physicians will enjter the chambers
of the afflicted; —other divines will be
heard from our pulpits ; and other civilians
display their talents in courts of judicature.
Yonder magnificent Capitol will concen
trate the wisdom of other senators, and re
sonnd with the periods of ether tepraoen
tatives.—Let the parent, the patriot, the
Christian, seriously ponder on this idea, and
he will no more neglect his duty than he
can cease to love his children, his country,
and his Ged. The formation of the man
ners of youth is the moral fulcrum by which
we may raise the world.”
After mentioning the benefits which gov
ernments may derive from patronizing ed
ucation. by which they “threw bulwarks
around, that shall remain firm and unimpair
ed, when brass and marble shall have fal
len and decayed,” the Doctor observes
that “ the Columbian College isopen chief
ly to classical and theological students; but
should the blessing of Heaven descend no
the projects and crewH (he exertions of its
friends and supporters, additional edifices
will soon be erected, where Jeotures will
be delivered on the Institutes of Daw and
on Medical Science.”
THE LOVE OF MONET.
From a volume of Sermons lately published by
Dr. Chalmers, entitled “ The Application of
Christianity to the commercial and ordinary
affairs of life.”
He who makes a God of his pleasures,
renders to his idol the homage of his sens*.
He who makes a god of his wealth, renders
to this idol the homage of his mind ; and
he, therfore, is the more hopeleos and de
termined idolater. The former is goaded
on to bis idolatry by the power of his ap
petite.—The latter cultivates his with
wilful and deliberate perseverance ; con
secrates his very highest powers to iti
service ; embarks in it, not with the heat
of passion, but with the coolness of steady
and calculating principle ; fully gives up his
reason, and his time, and all the faculties of
his understanding, as well as all the desires
of his heart, to the great object ofa fortune
in this world ; makes the acquirement of
gain the settled aim, and the prosecution
of that aim the settled habit of his exis
tence ; sits the whole day long at the post
of his ardent and unremitting devotions;
and as he labours at the desk of his count
ing-house, has his soul just as effectually
seduced from the living God t,o an object
distinct from him, and contrary to him, as if
the Leger over which he was bending was
a book of mystical characters,written in hon
our of some golden idol placed before him,
and with a view to render this idol propi
tious to himself and his family. Baal and
Moloch were not more substantially the
gods of rebellious Israel, than Mammon is the
god of all his affections. To the fortune
he has reared, or is rearing for himself
and his descendants, he ascribes all the
power and all the independence of a divini
ty. With the wealth he has gotten by Iris
own hands, does he feel himself as inde
pendent of Ged, as the pagan does, who,
happy in tho fancied protection of an im
age made by his own hand, suffers no dis
turbance to bis quiet, from any thought of
the real but unknown Deity. His confi
dence is in his treasures, and not in God.
It is there that he places all his safety and
all his sufficiency. It is not on the Su
preme Being, conceived in the light of a
real and a personal agent, that he places
hie dependence. It is on a mute and ma
teria] statue of his own erection. It is
wealth which stands to him in the place of
God—to which he awards the credit of all
his enjoyments—which he looks to as the
emanating fountain of all his present suffi
ciency—from which he gathers his fond
est expectations of all the bright and fan
cied blessedness that is yet before him, on
which he rests as the firmest and ablest
foundation of all that the heart can wish or
the eye can long after, both for himself and
his children. It matters not to him, that all
his enjoyment comes from a primary foun
tain,and that his wealth is only an intermedi
ate reservoir. It matters not to him,that if
God were to set seal upon the door of the
upper storehouse in heaven, or to blast and
to burn up all the fruitfulness of the eartb,
he would reduce to the worthlessness of
dross, all the silver and the gold that
abound in it. Still the gold and silver are
his gods. His own fountain is between him
and the fountain of original supply.—-Hu
wealth is between him and his god. Its
jmrious lodging places whether in the
Bank, or in the place of registration, or in
the depository of wills and title-deeds, —
these are the sanctuaries of his secret wor
ship—these are the high places of his ad
oration : and never did devout Israelite look
with more iotentness towards Mount Zi
on & with his face towards Jerusalem, than
does be to bis Wealth as to the mountain
and strong bold of his security. Nor
could the Supreme be more effectually de
posed from the homage of trust and grati
tude than he actually is, though his wealth
were recalled from its various invest
ments—and turned into one masa of
gold-—and cast into a piece of molten stat
uary—and enshrined on a pedestal, around
which all his household might assemble and
make it the object of their family devo
tions—and plied, every hour of every day,
with all the fooleries of a senseless and de
grading paganism.
It is thus, that God may keep up the
charge of idolatry against us, even after all
its images have been overthrown. It is
thus that dissuasives from idolatry are still
addressed, in the New Testament, to the
pupils of anew and a better dispensation ;
that little children are warned against idols;
and all of us are warned to flee from cov
etousness, which is idolatry.
• ‘l’ • ‘A •
Late Missionary Intelligence.
From the London Missionary Chronicle, receiv
ed at the office of the Boston Recorder,
RUSSIA.
Extract of a letter from Mr, Knill , to W. A.
Hamkey , Asg. Valeri St. Petersburg , 2d
October , 1821.
“ The favour of a King is as the dew
upon the grass.” Solomon said so, and I
have found it to he true. We have long
been desirous to have a Charity School
connected with our little congregation, and
about a month since I drew up a statement
to present to the pubJick, soliciting aid.
But before aoy thing could be done official
ly, it was Recessary to obtain permission
from the Prime Minister Galitzin, who is
Minister of Spiritual Affairs and National
Instruction. In order to obtain this permis
sion, my dear friend, John Venning Esq.
took what 1 had written to that excellent
Christian Princess Mischertsky, to give it an
elegant Russ translation. She cheerfully
accepted tbe work, and while engaged in
translating it, His imperial Majesty called
on her, and tbe whole matter was laid be
fore him. The Princess was pleased to
mention my name, tbe Chapel, &c. and add
ed that she frequently heard me preach.
The result is this: last Friday Mr. V. re
ceived information from Prince Galitzin
that the Emperour had appointed me Su
perintendent of the School with an annuul
salary of 2,000 rubles; 1,000 rubles for the
master annually, and a donation of 5,000
rubles to cornmeuce the institution. “Bless
the Lord, O my soul.”
It was delightful to see so many people
ut the Missionary Prayer Meetiog yesterday
evening. I endeavour to alt the
Missionary Intelligence I can against those
seasons, which has a very cheering effect.
A gentleman was present at tile meeting in
September, and was so much pleased with
the idea of supporting a native preacher in
India, that be commissioned me to inform
the JDireptcra that he would contribute j£lO
Price, if 9 ' 50 P r - wm - OT 'l
met, j $3 00 in advance .J
annually for that purpose—the preached
to be called, “ Johfi Meybohm Venning.”
Last week we voted 300 rubles to the
Scottish Missionaries at Astrachan for print
ing Tracts in Tartar and Persick. Two
hundred and thirty-five to Mr. Rahmo for
Calmtic Tracts, and 235 to the Missionaries
at Selinginsk, for Mongolian Tracts.
All the missionaries in the empire are
supplied with Russ Tracts by the Princess
Mischertsky. She is an accomplished Eng
lish scholar, and has translated great num
bers of English Tracts into her own lan
guage, hundreds of thousands of which
have been circulated, and are still circulat
ing in Russia.
1 have this day heard from the Jewish
missionaries who are travelling in the Cri
mea, under the patronage of the Edinburgh
Jewish Society. They have a large and
interesting field before them. O that the
Lord may arise and have mercy on the off
spring of his servant Abraham.
GREENLAND AND LABRADOR.
Extracts from the correspondence of the British
and Foreign Bible Society.
From Rev. C. J. Lalrobe.
JYwW’s Court, London, Oct. 17, 1821.
Both from Greenland and Labrador I
have received Letters; and beg leave to
trouble you with the following extracts,
for communications to the Committee of
the British and Foreign Bible Society.
From Okkak, in Labrador, dated August 8>
1821.
“ We request you to present to the ven
erable British and Foreign Bible Society
our most cordial thanks for the valuable
present of more copies of the New Testa
ment in the Esquimaux language, gent to
us by the ship. Thoy are to us and our
people a treasure of immense worth, for
which we pray the Lord to reward those
generous benefactors. As most of ourchil
dren and many grown persons in our con
gregation can read, they are read with
great eagerness and much blessing, by old
and young.”
From Main, in Labrador , August 21, 1821 j
After repeating their thanks for the valu
able gift of the Esquimau's New Testament*
they add—
u Several of our Esquimaux here at
Nain, having been informed of the nature
of the Bible Society, and its aim in the dis
tribution of the sacred Scriptures through
out the world, of their own accord began to
collect seals, and blubber, by way of mak
ing up a small contribution towards the ex
penses of the Society.
“ Some brought whole Seals, others
half a Seal, or other pieces, as they could
afford it. Some brought pieces of blubber
in the name of their children, requesting
that their poor gifts might be accepted.
“ The expressions they made use of in
presenting their gifts deeply affected me,
and us all. Having been told, that in Rome
parts of the world, heathen, who were
poorer than they, had contributed their,
mite, however small, towards the further
ance of the spread of the word of God, with
great eagerness and delight they said—
“ How long have we not heard the pleas
ant and comfortable words of God concern
ing Jesu3 our Saviour, and received so ma
ny books treating of Him, and yet we have
never known and considered where they
come from! We have indeed sometimes
spoken together, and observed, that these
many books, given to us without pay, must
be very dear somewhere; but we never
have known before now, that even poor
people bring their money, out of pure love,
that we may get those comfortable words
of God. We are indeed poor, but we might
bring now and then some blubber as a con
tribution, that others who are as ignorant
as we were formerly, may receive the same
gospel which has been so sweet to our
souls, and thereby be taught to find the
way to Jesus, and to believe on him.’ By
this spontaneous declaration a great impres
sion was made upon our people: Each
would bring something, when they beard
how desirous other heathen nations wer®
to hear the word of God. They now beg
ged me to send this collection of blubber
(yielding 30 gallons ©f oil) to those gener
ous friends who printed the Bibles for them,
that more heathen might be presented with
that book, “so precious above all things.”
Similar expressions of gratitude are con
tained in the letters from Hopedale, the
southernmost of the settlements of the
brethren on that coast, dated Sept. 4, 1821.
They write The Lord be praised
that his word dwells now richly among us !
We desire, with all our hearts, to preach
the word of bis Cross with unwearied faith
fulness. Surely we have the heat encour
agement, by knowing what it has effected
during the 50 years of the existence of the
Brethren’s Mission iu the ceuntry, where
formerly darkness and death reigned. It
might truly be said of the Esquimaux that
they aat in darkness and in the shadow of
death; under the cruel bondage of satan;
but God our Saviour has wrought deliver
ance, and brought many of them into the
florious liberty of the children of God.
lany are already with the saints in bliss,
praising with eternal songs the Lamb that
was slajn, for thgic redemption by
blood,” -t ‘