Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 19, Number 18, Vincennes, Knox County, 7 June 1828 — Page 4

having no internal market for he pro answer the question what is now ducts of agriculture, there wne no the great principle which has been leading inducements or necessity for layed and hatched in the nest of po them to turn their attention towards litical interest for Indian preserva agriculturalemployrncnt further than tion ? It is to get the Indians' lands to raise as much corn, beans and po- and to colonize them to the barren tatoesas would barely support them ; deserts of the Rocky Mountain? ; & a little corn and beans, made into there strip them of Independence, raurohanat and amahkep and some liberty, and of self-government; by

dried venison, &c. served their repast whom i The Government whose

for a long time, and those who first motto is Independence Liberty, and

may have consumed their scanty sup- Republicanism, and whose proiesseo

ply, were generally replenished by principle is, that " all men are created the known hospitality of their equal, and of right ought to be free.'"

friends ; food being admitted to be A great deal is said about Slate rights.

an indispensable article for the pre- within the jurisdiction oi Indian

lunoiJtan

wvi'iHtfrrTtfVi iftvi iieie, sir, a tram oi reuections suosequenc Agents, to mc unero

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Mbhiii ut nit, wAifeitb. nasi cc present condition ol the LJ her the manner in which the v were aistn

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i?'?. Hkewjse in anticipatinK their huteil. that they proved, in many in

meet; iuiurc prospects: anu 1 cannoi reiram stances, imurious rainer man a uene

oh! the last rays of fcciing amiiifc must i depart, from indulging in the following brief fit. because the stimulant to use them Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my , 7 i i . . P j i j i

heart. itiuai uuuuuu ina uuui u I uiuunii iuuji y utiu lis uiaav. 'uihuu

when I commenced this letter. The ent improvements, has been kept

SV;':",Tr step which the Chcrok.-s made hack and never urged in order that

'Twasnot the sott nuRick of streamlet cr inn, in aavancc lowaras me nanus oi civ me new policy oi removing mem

Oh! no-it was something more cxmitc stui. Hizcd life, was in the raising of do west of Mississippi should be promo

'Twas that my friends, ihcbciovM of mv bosom, mestic animals ; the abundance of ted by holding out the idea to the

were near, i more uear ranee which covered the lorcst. anu Lherokee3, mat v emmratintr mev

Who made cv ry dear scene ot cnctiantmctu .1.. r i c. ...:n k i .wl ,..w:n.

And who felt how the blest charms of our nature u,c ltrtU maiKunui uuidw, tallica m a.a3 ut iuuiaii3, anu u imiiu a

imi rove. love, hoes, as well as the convenience and to live as their ancestors had done, in

When we see them reflected from looks that WC rnmfnrf (.Ynpr'iPnpp1 Jn nnccncainrr flip UnntQ nf hnH'ilnpQ nml hpnrct,

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Sweet vale of Avoca! how calm coma I rest incm, were mc reat cxcuemcnis uui, ir, wnai nas Mnce oeen me mm:

In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love which influenced the fJhcrokees to used to those who have been fan-

Where he storms which wc 'fed in tin, cold become herdsmen ; their country at atically wafted to the land of promise

And our hearts, like thy waters, be ir.ingkd in the same time abounding in game, cc (Arkansas .) let the emigrant

peace THE VIC TIM. Hand me the bowl, yc jovial hand," lie said. 'Twill rouse my ninth." But conscience seized his trembling hand, And dashed the cup to earth. He looked around ; he blushed ; he laughc1. ; He sipped the sparkling; wave. In it he read 4 Who drinks thi draught Shall dig a murderer's grave." He started up, like one who slept, And trembled for his life. He gazed around ! His children wept He saw hia weeping rvile. In his deep dream he had not felt Their gloomy agonies and fears. But now he saw them as they knelt To plead with prayers and tears. But the foul fiend her hateful -?pdl Threw o'er his Vildcrcu mind. . He saw in every hope a hell ; He was to reason blind. He grasped the bowl to seek relief; No more his conscience s::d. His bosom friend was sunk in grief; His children begged their bread. His peace, his fortune, and his funr, From him were doomed to part. His orphans were the heir of bh line, His wife a broken heart. Through haunts of horror rnd of strife He passed down life's dark tide. He cursed his beggared babes and wife ; He cursed his Ciod ! and died. Letter from a Cherokee Indian.

"The following letter." says the

editor of the American Traveller . . . .

was written some time miicc ov a

native American indian, whose only advantages of education were a feu

months spent in a common school, c

whose field of experience was boun

ded by the dull details of a public

store. The commencement of the letter I omit as relatingcxclusivcly to matters of business uninteresting to the gener al reader. 13ot the conclusion exhibits a mind of no ordinary powers ; & a mind, too, that has thrown off many national prejudices. For an Indian, nurtured as Indians arc in the pride of color and of race, to look forward to the amalgamation of his nation with the whites in a dispassionate aod philosophic frame of mind is much. It is to overcome a prejudice which national pride and national wrongs have equally con tributed to form and to foster. It shows that the Indian was not deceived by names ; he was not deluded by

the phantom of independence ; he

looked to the reality.

He saw that if the red-skins bv

intcrmarriage gradually lost the hut and the features and the peculiarities

thought it necessary to ask. TP hat ! wouldst thou hesitate or be reluctant to restore to every one his own? No, she replied ; but yet I thought it best not to restore them without acquainting thee therewith. She then led him to their chamber, and step ping to the bed, took the white covering from the dead bodies. Ah 1 my

sons, my sons, loudly lamented their father ; my sons ! the light of my eyes, and the light of my understanding. I was your father; but ye were my teachers in the law. The mother turned away and wept bitterly. At length she took the husband by the hand and said, Rabbi, didst thou not teach me, that we must not

be reluctant to restore that which

was entrusted to our keeping ? See,

he Lord gave, and the Lord hath aken away ; 6c blessed be the name

of the Lord ! Blessed be the name

of the Lord ! echoed the holy man ;

and blebsed be his glorious name for

ever.

servation of life, it was their pride to extend hospitality to all in need of

food , no trait in the character of

man was more abhorred, and consid

ered more deradino, by them, than

that of beimx stingy ot lood And

on hunting; excursions a tew hags of rarcstah, together with meat procu red from the chase, constituted their principal diet. The furs and peltry obtained in their hunts, readily pro cured their wants from the Iradera ; and being nurtured front their infancy to toil in pursuit of ty.une, they considered it beneath their standing, as men, to confine their vocation to the slavish plursuii of tilling the soil Such, I believe, were tin- character &

situation of the Cherokess. when von first came in amon'K'5?, them, as an agent under the Administration of the Father of the Untied btcde. the

friend and benefactor of the red men

The first grand object of the adminis

tration was to cultivate peace and

friendship with the red men, and to reclaim him from iirnoranee and

it wretchedness, ao hunters, by inducini the men. as far as practicable, to be

come agriculturists, and the women.

spinners and weavers : the beginning was small and tardy, notwithstanding the very great interest taken on your part, to extend the progress of such an important change.

Hut sir, this is the era under which the auspicious reformation com men ced,and to those who laid the foundation and were co-workers, is all the honor, praise and thankfulness due ; the torch being lit and the (lames fan tied by the wind of necessity, and pressed along by an increasing intercourse with the whites, they are brought to the present state of im provement from the influences of sur

rounding circumstances had the

that characterize them as a people, j same policy influenced subsequent

countries, derived irom

discovery, and the King's chai ter, the

Sovereignty of the U. States, and of

compacts between the U. Stales and

muiviuua htates. c:c. oat are

they in comparison to piior and oi ig

inal possession, an inheritance from

the King of Kings and Author oi our existence, and guaranteed to the

Indians hv treat y with them bv the

Lnited States? A mere bubble

'i herefore, should 3 ever be told that

by continuing hen;, the Cherokee: from inte; man i.iges and amalgamat

ion with the whites, will, m tune, he

coins extinct a Indians, and will he

all white, and for that reason tht

Indians ought to recede to a country

where they mav alwavs he Indians t i t

mv answer win he that w men was

given by the noted Chief, the IJloody

Fellow, to Col. Meigs on a similai

occasion ; that is. theic is not a spot

on this globe where the Indians cook

he alwavs freed from the whites ; &

should the Indians become white bv

intermarriages. & amalgamation wit

the whites, not a drop of blood icill be

lo.st. Therelore I care not how soon the change takes place. Please to pardon this trespass upon your time by this digression, and to accept the salutation of my dear Father. I am, dear Hir, very respectfully.

your obedient servant, Jno noss

Rossville. Cherokee Xa

tion, July 1, 1820. 3

Application to Court.

To the 1 1 tit s and Lrgal Representatives cr

iVyC TUiMsL Oi.io, said I sane bein one of the Hcits of BEXJ.iMIX TUR.1L1X, deceased.

TruU will please take notice, that on the

U I t .S f fc l& . t- 14 ' S Wl I III, III W I m. M li " i I -A. L M

ot the Knox county Circuit court, I shall

apply for the appointment of Commissioners

to make a Deed to mc of fifty acres of Land,

situated in the county of Knox ; said filly acrcs bcinj; part of a tiact of five hundred acits of land, on which J'.hn Crosby formerly

lived, and being the same land that Benjamin ''urtnan by his bond, in the penalty of fivs Mindrid dollars, in his life lime obliged himvclf to mak" a Deed lo me, the said bond dated '23d June, 18 17. DANlKb IIOLLIXCiSWORTH. Ma; 12, 1823. '5-It Administrator's jNolice. A T the request of those concerned, I have I. tL upp'icd for, :md obtained letters of Administration on the estate ol J dm Red, (late of (libson county ) ilcccascd, which estate is believed to lie solvent. All those who have claims against said estate are he: chy reques

ted to present tlu m on or bclore the 10th day (if May next, and t!n.sr who arc indebted to said estate, are re.juired to mat.e immediate payment. DAVID HOIJ, Jdm. Mav 1828. 16-3t

they gained the suhstantial advanta

es which the American citizen pos sesses: & gained them, too, without shedding a drop of blood. This was but common sense, i shall he told. True ; but how many white-skins possess as much ? It is not very easy for us, meanly as we estimate the savage character and highly as we estimate our own, fairly to perceive the degree of liberality and good sense which this Cherokee evinces. But if the prejudice

Tvere our own or similar to our own, if wc could sec and feel as Indians

we should perceive it more easily

and accord to it more readily the esti

mation it deserves Ilurmvny Guz.

administrations, and the same interest

and personal exertions used bv subse

qucnt Agents to inspire the Chero

kees to a reformation, I hesitate not

in saying, that it is my sincere belief

that the state of improvement would

have advanced much faster. In say

ing this much, it is not my intention

to Hatter you ; but I believe it is due

to you, that candor & honesty should

make this confession ; at least, on the

part of the C hcrokees. Neither is it

my object, to criminate the conduct

ot subsequent Agents ; Col. Meigs I believe, was a good, honest and cor rect man. Altho' a large amount o

presents in utensils and implements

of husbandry has been made, thro

5or; from the Mislina of the Jhb

oni,? ijtu inn the absence ol Kaooi!

Meir from his house, his sons died

both of them of uncommon beauty. a?id enlightened by the law. His

wile bore them to her chamber, laid

them upon the bed, and spread a

white covering over their bodies

When Rabbi Meir returned, his first

story. was tor his sons. 1 i is wife

reached to him a goblet ; he praised the Lord at the coin" out of the Sab-

bath, drank, & again asked, 4 Where are my sons, that they too may drink

ot the cup of blessing t They will

not be far oil she replied, and placed

food before him that he might eat He was in a gladsome and genial

mood ; and when he had said grace after the meal she thus addressed him: " Rabbi, with thy permission

I would lain propose to thee or

question." Ask it then, my love,"

he replied. A few days ago, a per

son entrusted some jewels to my cus

tody, and now he demands them;

should I give them back to him?"

This is a question said Rabbi Meir, which my wife should not have

State of Indian:), m a irr in ci lie u 1 TV c o URT, March Term, 1S2C. Gcnrre Frame, and Hannah Ryford," Admstr. and Admstx. on the Es- I lilil ir, tale of Henry T. By ford, deed. r Chanvs. eery The Creditors of said Estate. AND now at this day came the said complainants, by Annv.r A',v.v7?r, the i; so

licitor, and filed their hill for relief And

motion Hi ordered, That notice of the pendency of this hill he published in the Western Sun, a newspaper published in Vincenncs, Indiana, for four weeks successively, previous lo the next term of this court, and tliis cause is continued. A copy test, L R ROGERS, Clk. ;j c.c. lllndntnn. M v ! 2. 1898. 1 5-4t AUihihiairmor) fcalu. 'Tf'OTICEis hen by v;iven,that I shall sell Jl at public auction, on Saturday, the

7 curii eruh cuui June next,

at the mill of Mr. Leonard RalphSnyder,

0.000 feet of Plank,

belonging to the estate of Andrew Claycomb;

nv.ii. ii ut uiu iii iuis 10 suii purcha

sers. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock the terms w ill be made know n on the day of sale.

JAMES II. COOK, Adm. Mav 20, 1528 6-3t

Estray Sorrel Mare.

Taken up by Jonathan Webb, living in Gill township, Sullivan county.

la. a sorrel marc, with some white hairs, 14 hands high, a ball face, a small white spot on

ncr on snoumcr, a sman scar cn her near shoulder, and some white hairs on the inside

of her near fore leg ; no other marks or brands perceivable appraised to 30 before me, Wm. M. PURUY, j.p. May 19, 1828. i 63l Administrator's Noticed 4 I-I' persons concerned arc hereby notiflIV ed, that I have taken out letters of administration upon the estate of William Mahoney, (late of Sullivan county,) deceased,

ana nereoy request all persons who ha

claims against said estate to present them

properly authenticated for settlement uithin one year from this date; and those indebted to said estate are requested to make immedU ate payment. RICHARD E. HARPER, Adm. May 7, 1828. 15-4t "