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* '~. fHI CIIREK Re atiooin mule origittal this subject which hare _CA!y marl; alie I* intetesf. The toe asl7 toot, is not of Me occurrence% of one quarter of one toil. The 'here, although .oto *Vat termed trißfs of the transatlany untutored .inclians," dresied to the can of i llitiliVtbetts "%Milo ' for . thy. Awe savages exhibit. 1 not. for VIA 'in a struggle betwixt the cultured and uncultered of the. earth, the world has seen the light of virtue shine conspicuous on the title of the latter. In the .0, y i t h es i t s betwixt o i ai etr the territory, tbe an(l advantage the poor will Indians w e ;think be - arded to the latter. On tbe side of Georgia pttgli we tee a lawlen attempt to drive the Indians off *ben hinds like a &ore of cattle in order Huit i . they may t c annexed to the estate of their more posit% „Ifni tAighbcruti. In resisting this unfeeling attempt, it Juabosefae not to admire the conduct of the Indians. who, see * lle in ill but the justice of their cause, and their own /evolution to stand or fall by it, are willing to exhaust ar gument before they resort to arms. We trust the Supreme 4 1 /dthio?ity'of the United Stites will yet interpose effec tually for the preser:atiou of this unhappy peop'.e. • .ie TAL PAISIti£XT OF TILE VNITED ST ATES. SIA—We, 'the sons of the forest, whose tpirits hare long sinew skinned, hut ghich continue to hover round the representatives of the Chat:Aces, duly delegated and acknowledged, have agreed to address you in the language of the living; and we approsih you with great inspect. We have read this day with unmingled sans. faction, your excelient message to both Houses of Congress; for we have witnessed, in the general government. an endeavour, not only to adhere- mien, to the terms and conditions of obligations, entered ion between She government of the United States and the State of Deongia, one bf the members of the general Union ; but, with unfeigned diselkfulness to the Great Sphit, whom we serve day and night, we rejoice to find that our nation is in no respect deceived in our fall reliance on the general government, whose liOnour and faith we have hitherto believed to be pledged in the )enervation of the inviolate rights of our people ; for we 6nd in pi( your acts, that paternal attention that 'notifies the regrets of pan evils, by the prospects of future felicity. . 'We have also read, with deep interest and satisfaction, tin vow ....able anti lucid exposition of the general proceedings - of the govern. 'rent of the United States, in the letter of the Secretary of War; , and we cherished, as we proceeded, a hope that the Cherokee na.; Pik, which the general government of the United States bad, with so much care and humanity, led gradually to a state of civilization, was on the eve of enjoying all the benefits that girth happy change Was efectiog, when with unspeakable regret we arrirud et the re monstzance of the Senators and Representatives of the State of Georgic. addressed to the President vet the United State-a., Its this day-of light and reason, we cannot refrian from 'epees_ sing . as much astonishment as sorrow at the perusal of such a pro. deetton. Were we not afraid of violating the language of de corum, we should say, it is an insult of the grossest kind, not Merely to thegovernnient of the United Stites, but to the common Hose of the soverzign People I We has attended the debates cf Congress, and we find that !hone atigest and deliberative assemblies reject not the petitions of Pie most abject and unworthy of its citizens, without due eon s:dent:ion ; and yet, the respectable Representatives of Georgia express a degree of surprise that the Cherokee Delegation should be :rested with so much respect by the Secretary of War, as to erner into a diplomatic correspondence with them ; and in pursuit cf their inquiry they ask in what light are the Cherokees, as a people, to be viewed by the government of the United States? •• If as an independent nation, to be treated with all the forms of diplomatic respect, the negotiation with them should be transferred 10 the Department of State, and will no doubt (they add) be pre ceded by a prcper examination into their authority to speak for the C:enokce 'I ribe on matters affecting their prosperity and existence. It to be. vie Red as other Indisns—as persons suffered to reside within the territorial limits of the United States, and subject to every restraint - which the policy and power of the general govern. Ment require to be imposed upon them, for the interest of the Union, the interest of a particular State, and their own preserva tion, it is necessary tivit these -misguided men shoals be taught, by the general government, that there is no alterr slit e between their removal beyond the limits of the State of Csorgia and their exknctior.! The governmont of the United States will deceive them (the Cherokees) grossly, if they are led to believe that at this day, their consent is necessary to the fulfilment of its oblige. nom to -the, Stare of Georgia. Their will must yield to the para. troest duties of the general government, to itself, and to each mem ber of the confederacy. The Cherokees allege (if, indeed, the re renntation made is made with their authority) that they are re a r nd Hither to Perm- wee sell the lands on which they reside— nds which belong to the Sete of Gcorgia , over which Georgia did r claim seeereignty until the adoption of the Federal Constitution, tied over which she will exercise her powers whenever any ad. ministrafion of the genteel government resolves to lin permanently upon them uoy persons who are not , and whom she will never sutler to berme her citizens. The doctrines of the general . government, urntioned by the highest tribunals, vindicate the claim of Georgia to the owenership of the soil. The Indians are simply occupants-- tenants at will—incapable of transferring even their naked pones. nom, except through the instrumentality of the United States to the State of Georgia." Oh Penn ! bleeped spirit, how differently didst thou think and act towards the children of the forest in Pennsylvania When we read the Declaration of independence, we found that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap plans ! Are the Cherokees not men, that the people of Georgia would either remove them from the soil given them and their fathers by the Great and Eternal Spirit, before that State existed, or they must be extirpated, though sprung from the same original parents ? Mankind, indeed, have waged war against the rattle snake, because St is a dangerous and hidden enemy, but must the poor Indian be treated like a dangerous reptile ? Who placed in oar delicious climate those lofty mountain!, and Fleeted the stately forests that shelter our babes and game ; who sends his rain and sunshine to fertilize our lands ; who distributes in meandering unarm the flowing rivers, that lead us to ti -." sea of mighty waters? The Eternal and Benign Spirit that walks on the face of the deep, rid that pervades existence. He has placed us here—He gave us them lands, as our inheritance; and that we, might not be disturbed, lie placed the whites in Europe. Offend Him not ; for when 'it is His pleasure. His mighty power shakes the mountains as the wind shekel a leaf—llia lightning blasts the stately forest, and His thunder and his storms announce the dreadful power of the threat Spirit ! There was a time when the Cherokee% were fierce warriors and hunter+, and it was thought by the white men unsafe to dwell so near their red brethren. Did they approach us then with a view to our extirpation, or with benevolent intentions of reclaiming the 1 children of the woods, and of giving them the lights of Christi. amity P il'e believed the later; and now that we hare begun to be, Christians, and to till the soil, and to learn the domestic arts, and' to be humanised, and desirous of becoming part of the greet family of irons, in. this extensive republic, we are urged to give up our lands and depart to another country, or we an threatened with ex tine.tiee ! IS this language cf the representatives of a great people; is this the language of the people of Georgia ? nay, of its most debased inhabitants , and in the face of the Mffhle world ? . For we blush as men to read it ! • They claim the tight to destroy us, if we quit not our lands, for they say the State of Georgia claimed the sovereignty, until the adoption of the Federal Constitution. By.what right, we boldly ask, did they claim it ? By the right of conquest, we may perhaps be answered. This we deny : but if even conquered, the common rights of humanity never permitted Christian conquerors to rob the peaceable inhabitants of their soil ! They claimed only the sovereignty ; and it would rot become the Christians of an en lightened age and country, even to claim the sovereignty over an unconqured people / The lights of Christianity hays happily beamed upow u a / and have taught us to deithise that Wm logic, that so the dark; ages - governed the world. We know our rights, and we has not to assert them ; we do wen then', and we appeal to the general gewernmeut for proteet;on. Though we may be tught weak as a nation, in contention against that powerful State, yet we know is would he 0 bloody business to attempt our extirpation, but we wish nevermore to raise the tomahawk ; and we prefer rather to solicit the i.terferente of our Christian brethren throughout the tinned States, to defend us agailut the 'ons of the people of Georgia, than to draw blood to our min defence. We have winless -A in that State what we thought aggressions on ' private rights. We know the origin and final ITSUe of the Yazoo, claim. It was cult' dishonourable! We have become cotton. planters. and y e enjoy the benefit of the cotton Gin. We know that the people of Georgia deprived the author of that invention of his just rigntr, while the States of Nortn and South Carolina paid him foi tins invention, that has made all the Southern States so rich. We wish not to say what may irritate, but when week:l ittler their departure in other instauces from the rule of right, we ought not perhaps to have expressed to the President of the United States so *nth surprise at the language row published by the theorgla Delegation to the whole world, relative to your attic. donate children, the Cherokees. Signed in behalf of the nation, by the departed spirits of OCANSTOTA H. ATTAHICALKALLAII. KAYATAIIEki. City of Washington, April 10, 1824. 're THE. PRT"DENT OF THE. UNITED STATES. FATILEIL—M . :;..I we addressed yip. on the 10th instant, We thaaght an had t.s.lit argumixits that would have impressed even the l3eor lags , st•A would have obtained the support of the virtuous, is bthdf of the sons of the forest ; but we base read, this day, with irs.xprevii!de anguish, the report of the emumittee of Congress, and lament that in this Chrlat;an and enlightened nation, such .ptinci ples can unblushingly laspublished to the world ! The committee teen sheet ititprise that the government enters l into a diplomatic correspondence with us, instead of proceedinp, as formerly, to an Indian Talk. The Indian Talk is, generally, • rude traoslarten of extempore arguments, and it makes less impres. OW* alt • reasoning community than a correspondence, Where the; roof sentiments of the nation are correctly expressed, and no con-, ellOsiohn made 'through ir..oranee. Hut will nnesuspeet that' sly swat:, . •.! Aid% a query from high-minded —...._ _ their. time, afire the purchase of Louisiana, when w: should have been willing to remove over the Mississippi, if thr. river should have been considered as the boundary between tie United States and the Indians: but that time has paned : for the United States have established new states there, aril have granted Clem the same slave -- wit as the state of Oftegia. Ni,i'e should, the . fore, be considered i as intruders, if sent there now: for the nations, composednrseWera 1 from various countries, would never consent to the admitting* Of large bodies of Indiana among them. White, then, weak ye* Isend us It We had Imagined that the virtue of a government which has he. i &iced an attention to the poor and uniette:ed children 'Attie forest I i which has endeavoured to huirtanite and eiviltze our people; which has baptized them in the name of the :inn of the Most High ; whi:h has sent pastors to teach them the Word of Truth, and has taught them the belief of a hereafter. where man shall answer foe all the acts of this life, ar - Ailii have 'prevented the Representatives of the people from recommending tho moat diabolical plan that de- prxvity can suggest :—for we Pee the sentiments of the paiple of Georgia again urged by the committee of Congress, with a violence bordering on insult to the government of the United States—They report drat oar " present position is incompatible with the claims of the stated Georgia; the knowledge of the filet, that the United [States will not. in consequence of the perverseness of the Cherokees. comply with the obligations of the compact of 1802, will neemainwar, eauenuncdeaerofib. final ow ' eay E e rl a u t f y ir t r ,o i r tatio e n n a and The r Corte i d en S lL. tat t e h s e n c isty comity Drifting the Cherokees annihilated, or of defending than against their own citizens. The committee offer to the House the followmg resolutions, under a full conviction that the adoption of them will not be followed by any consequences injUtious to the i Cherokee tribe, or to the charac:er of the geneial government fog humanity 1— i " Resolved, That the United States are bound, by their oblige. 1 tints to Georgia. to take, immediately, the necessary measures tag the removal of the Cherokee Indians beyond the Inuits of that state. " RetoVfttl, That such an arrangement with the state of Geor gia shoeld be made, as mar lead to the final adjustment of the claims of that state. under the compact of 11302, with the least pos. sible inconvenience to the Cherokee and Creek Indians, within the boundary of the state. " Resolved, That the sum of dol3ars should be appro. plated for the purposes expressed in the above resolutions." :In the plainest language, the government are informed that they rust remove us to prevent our annihilation, or they must protect us against the people of Georgia; and that to remove us by force will neither be injurious to us, nor detrimental to the character of the general government for justice and humanity. The sylogiant of a demon mien be— If we are witted we deserve to die, and it would be humane to put such wicked people to death. If we are good and virtuous, it would be humane to kill us, be., cause we should go to heaven, and leave a world of misery : Therefore. whether we are good or bad, it would be humane to In reatheig the Report, including these resolutions. we stand pe- I trified , for what observations can be made upon suet resolutions,' submitted to the Congress of the United States ! It was a lamentable remark of the Saviour of the world. " The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the fon of Man hath 'tot where to lay his head." To what region would -they drive us? The claims of Georgia are said to have been founded upon the Charter of Incorporation of the proprietary government, and on the -royal commissions issued to the governors of the state, after the rifa r in ewrl A Britain.—Acts and 1 ., i t i rr c e o n n d l ev e n ed tio i n h s eii frequentlyehart ce to the crown af te rwards ofri r i t; e a! ween the state of Georgia and other states, as well as between that state and the United States. But in all these acts, relative to the sovereignty and soil of Georgia, no stigulations were ever made to divest of the soil the real proprietors, to whom the Great Spirit had given the country. They remained perfectly ignorant of all these acts and recognitions of charters, by which they were to be deprived of their natural rights ; nor can they admit those interested dtatinc. tisns with which the cupidity of the Georgians ,- _ and their partial friends of the Committee, would impress their language, and force the world to believe that while we hunted we were not the proprie tors of the soil. flow would such language be relished by the king and nobles of Europe, or by the wealthy citizens of this country, who possess such extensive parks for deer and game? Such futi lity of argument is unworthy the dignity of Congress. Shall the Russians claim the soil of the North •West of America because they were the first who viewed the coast of that country, end pieced their flag thereon ; and would you agree that they should dispos sess the natives of their soil, and drive that barbarous horde into the United States? The English have long possessed the sove reignty of an extensive region in the East Indies, containing metre inhabitants than all North and South - America, but they liave not suffered one of their English subjects to purchase even an acre in that country. The claims of sovereignty and soil are very distinct. As well might Julius Camas have granted to the people of Shrop shire the sovereignty and soil of Wales, though those ancient Picts were never conquered, as by any foreign compacts with Georgia to grant that state our soil; for we were never conquered. The ancient English were like us, nakgd barbarians, that contended - for their rights, and they remain as a distinct people to the present day. So do we. They speak still thelanguage of their fathers. So do we. But did the Anglo-Saxons ever speak of the extirpation of these savages ? No, nevor ! and the Welch are eonsiderid as a most gallant. honest, weathy people. and are at this day the pride of their nation.—Teach us Christianity, and the arts, and the sciences, and we will learn yohr language, end will show you that the fostering care you may bestow upon us shall no: be in vain.— But it you are determined to extirpate us, being horn in the United States, we shall, under your Conetitution, contend for the rights of citisette : and if condemned by the Governor and Senators and Re presentatives of Georgia, we shall make the same appeal to our ex cellent and humane Father, the President of the firmed States, that St. Paul. being a Roman citizen, made to Caesar, when brought before the judgment seat of Festua. IVe ask again, whither would you drive us? Would you rob , us of the land that was ours since the creation, not obtained by blood and plunder ! iVould you delve us from the graves of our ancestors, on which we plant, and cherish the most flagrant flowers, that the hovering spirits may know that we respect them, and keep in remembrance their bravery and virtues ! Would ye drive us from the graves of our innocent babes, whom we would gladly take by the hard in the day of resurrection, when the spirits assemble to stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ ! And whither would ye drive us?—The Choctaws, Shawaneea, the Delawares, and many other nations, have been driven to the west of the Mississippi ; and if driven there we shall have to contend for soil, and the wars we must wage will indeed produce a hideous extirpation. warriors oa both sides. After settling there a while. we shall he again in the boundaries of the whites, who are emigrating thither, and car. eying slaves to settle the countries west. These will again require , us to more further. When General Lincoln visited • tribe of Indians driven to the Mississippi, they offered him ■ seat on a log. The General sin down. Several chiefs seated themselves at one end of the log, and desired the general to move further ; he moved on : more chiefs came, it-d they desired idol to move still fur.irr, till he carte tot .e end of the log—other chiefs came, and desired hint to move further. I cannot, said he. for I sin at the end of the log. This, said they, is our situation. You have driven us to the river, and say, move further—Thus should we also be situated. You would move us bark, nearer and nearer to the western ocean ; and when there, would tell us to move further ! hat have we done that you would remove us ? Ii e do not take your soil. We do not disturb your repose. We see that by planting and cultivating the ground we shall prosper; for we reason analogically; and judge by whit you are, what we may become. we ere not the same savages and hunters tha: inhabited those lands daring the isi.t cmituty I we are become civilized Christiana, and we claim the protection of the Union; we claim the protection of the Constitution; we Halm the protection of civilized man, and of Christiana; we claim the protection of national law and the civil rights of humanity. In humility, also, we solicit the protection of the Moat High, the Eternal Spirit, that rules the destinies of man ! Signed in behalf of the Representatives of the Cherokee nation, by the departed spirits of OCA NSTOTA H. ATTA HKALSALLAH, KAYATAHEE. City of Washitict , 2n, 27th April, 133 t City of Washington, July 11, 1824. TO THE PEOPLE OF orwtota.: Tire address of Gov. G. N. Troup, of Georgia, to the President of the Unites' States, through the Hon. Secretary of War, which was published in the Valionn 1 Intelligewer of the 24th of Alay last, has, I believe, remained hitherto unnoticed ; but it is difficult to sal whether this mein! si/enee has arisen front a conviction that the arguir.enta csintained in tlkis strange protest against the Presi dent's communication to Conger:lw, are, in themselves. so unreason . able thet they do nut require any answer, or whether it arises from the general abhorrence Oat has been excited b so barbarous and inhuman n requisition as th e ex p u l s i on o f a whole nation of quiet, peaceable inbabitnots, who live within .the narrow limits to which they have been driven from their extensive and fertile country. This address, however, must not pus without animadversion ; for it contains priacipies, which, if admitted, wouid•brutabre a whole nation: 7'he ( verner urges the genu.tii tenor of the contract between the United States at.d (Jetwgia ; hut he mires not into consideration that the contrsct which was male .in lift 2 was subject to the con sent of the liedials; to; Mole% tfie Government humanely con template/ the introduction of agriculture, and die 11Aeful arts among the Indthas, WibOttl Met. sitieerelv wished to. preserve from extir pation and it was still. doubiftil whether they couht hu civilised, though n:any were educated at the public schools; and though the Ocherhment found no difficulty in purchasing from the whatever the ger.eral or state governments required, yet they were desirous, ifstieh a free es iperemptory *fussl to seU their territory could pcsilsly exist, to prnv:tic for every contingeney, e„srecially as 4 a Otillkif hreginity t utak a happy eir the pier Wiens, that such • clause was a t 60 which the° arnetantly recur:. = ll6 llA in en placi its no human folealght could, at .. mplated. The lands or hunting grounds of hate %pi SO contented, that they iists4l be without they net depend on the productim of the soil, and and tattle. The benefits deriv e d from agriculture happy an influence on the Indians, that they are desir- I': the plans that ire rendered the whites so pro , have sent their children to school, they have been e built themselves good houses. instead of te m p orar y . are become pious Christians. They live amicably in now enjoy life, and their attachment to the general ... , that has thus humanely fostered these poor and injured proprietor. of the soil, is Without bounds. Whale the agreement, was made between the g eneral government I anttfleorgin, the latter never contemplated any difficul t y in the re moval of the Indians, because at that time the countries to the nod offered such Idtensive anti fertile ranges, to which they could re teen, witliont much danger of trespassing on the nighbtstering tribe , . that they parted with their lands upon easy terms, and with. but reluctance; but how differently are these poor being:s now dunned ! We have purchased Louisiana. If we had made the i Mississippi our boundary, and had granted for ever to the Indian gibesthe lands of that country, the lam/nine of the Goveraor of ' °mesh', and of his countrymen, would not have appeardd PO harsh, so cruel, so devoid of principle: for the Indian, though ' driven from the to!bs of his departed parents, would still hare , lands to hunt on„ and to raise his offspring.. Let the Governor and' the people of Georgia say where these lands are now to be dot.nd !: We were not satisfied with all the lands on this side of the Missis sippi but we were assailed with arguments and petitions from all the dave.holding states, to grant the same indulgence in settling the lands on the west of the Mississippi that were enjoyed by those states themselves; thus a mart wits extended for the increase of the slaves, tending to the diffusion of slavery ! If the Indians were to be renewed from Georgia thither, the good people to the west' of the Mississippi would now remonstrate against each unwelcome intenders; and troukl be as urgent with the United States to remove them still further, as the people of Georgia are now to restive or extirpatellimn. Such language would not have excited horror at the time that the slave-trade was urged as a right. and defended ; but such barbarous language cannot be tolerated now by the people of tits United States, who were born north of 'Georgia. • The Governor charges the United States with the crime of hav ing " encouraged the Cherokees" (yes, and what aggravates the' crime, all the other Indiana - ) to make progress in a.l the arts of cis villsed life of first necessity and comfort, within the acknowledged &mita uf Georgia. They have been resting flocks and herds, cons inflicting comfortable buileVogs, making agricultural improvements of variotrakinds, organizing a government, adapted to the grade of civiliestion they have reached. whit schools and religions setaldishrnents, appurtenant," &c.—" They have been taught by the United States to value them as they ought. The United States, therefore, created the cause" of such attachment to their soil. 'The Governor adds—" I do most earnestly wish, sir, that this subject could be disposed of for ever. It never recurs, Out the Mutt sickens at I the recollection of the crimes connected with it." This is perfectly true ; but the crimes ere committed are nothing, in comparison to the scenes of horror that would I ensue, if the wishes of die Georgians could be fulfilled ! ! There is a kind of language to which it is very difficult to give au answer; because when the heart becomes so callous as to per mit such language to go forth to the world, signed by the respect. 'able name of a gentleman who was once a senator, and is now the governor of a very potent and extensive state, none of the replies of humanity can affect such bosoms. For when the United :nate'', Whose Presidents bare uniformly been governed be humanity. have inesleated,.ll9 a duty, the humanizing st , siern, by which the poor Indians may be rendered happy, rot only here, but here- I after, the Governor of Georgia, in a strain or language that the untutored linliins would esneider as even too unpolished to be used to their chiefs, charges the President and Government, as if criminal. with linvirer taught these Indians the arts cf civi lized life—to rear flocks and !made, to construct comfortable build. , • to make agricultural improvements of various kinds, organ a government adapted to the grade of civilization they have at with schools and religious establishments, &c. ; and, *me all, the United Starts have taught these men to rabic these improvements, and this knowledge has induced the Indians to _ refuse to sell their country, and to wander away without a home! Oh, God ! I lament that such depravity of heart can exist in, this country : for depravity . it must be, of the most debased kind, that could induce avowal of such want of common principle ! You condemn the government because ft has not kept the Indi an in barbarows ignorance, that you might take their country What citizens could he deemed more worthy of the paternal and, E ried fostering care of a government, than those very Indians, who have become the •cultivators of the soil, who have erected com fortable buildings, who raise flocks and herds, who establish schools anil churches ? Could better citizens be wished for, oa, more useful men be nurtuted in a state, than those who have become civilized Christians, instead of continuing to wander. io • a savage state of nature ! The philanthropist would rejoice that such changes had been realized, and that the children of the forest had finally a prospect of preservation and happiness. The educated Indians treat, with the utmost contempt, the aeguments that the Governor of Georgia has mentiuned as the basis of the Georgia claim. The edict of Pope Alexander does, indeed, in their estima tion, pees for nothing: the proclamations and charters of divers Kings of England, for nethlog : but these edicts nay affect the nations of Europe in their respective relations to each other ; and the proclamations and charters of divers Kings of England may affect the subjects of the respective Kings ; thus, by convention, the King's obtained from the Pope certain privileges, where, on the discovery of new countries, they: placed their flags; but these pri vileges would insult common sense, if they extended to snore than the sovereignty, and exelueive rights of pre-emption : in like man ner, the proclamations and edicts of kings could in no respect affect the original natural rights of the Indians, but would 'rive to the subjects of ihose:govereigns the right of occupying cumin portions of the territories thus claimed under the papal edicts, but the lands were still subject to the Indian claim's, and these were only to be obtained by purchase, unless indeed they were expelled front their lands by force. as the government is now urged to do by Georgia. The virtuous Penn, who lived in perfect amity with the Indians, never attempted to settle upon the lands ceded to him by the King, till he had made a lair and honourable purchase of their tights. And this mode of obtaining the Indian title or claim, has been uniformly eureued by our general govennnent : and if the Indians could babe been induced to part with their land in the north-west part of Georgia. the government would with pleasure have fulfilled the stipulation into which titer entered ; but never Will they infract the laws of God, to gratify the unhallowed crav ing, of mortals, individually or collectively ! .Were these pore Indians to be hurled from their soil, and driver. back, where could they repose ? For they would invade the terri tories of other states, CT of other tribes, and must either conquer the countries to which they would be driven, or be extirpated? Is It ' possible that the inhabitants of 'Georgia could wish the extirpation 'of a whole nation of men who are living in comfort and In peace, seeking daily improvement in mind and morals, through the doctrines of the blessed Son of the Most High. whose 1 precepts they have embraced 2 I cannot suppose it possible; and yet I see before me this letter, signed by the Governor of the State. ( see a remonstrance signed by the Senators and Representatives of that State, all intent on this bloody business ! Can the mind be so debaszal by the scenes that daily occur in that region. as to allow these distinguished gentlemen:, of acknowledged perdue. learning, ability, high-minded in the general maxims of human policy and morality, to publish unblushingly their names to such productions! I lament that at this day, when the virtuous of every pact of the globe are anxiously endeavouring to meliorate the condition of the poor, the miserable, the oppressed mortal, there can be found - an ' many of high character in Georgia, who express their determine- n thlir mi so re il. pro l pos pra ed y . yo T m im ge e n . t w le i T h en u , s to al r i efl , ‘ ec il t i tif o a o i n n s enli nci , aa a nt nd in w o h n ei t i h i e t tion, if possible, to drive the remnant of th e Ch ero k ee nat i on f rom ends, eternity begins! The Cherokees cannot now as a people quit their territory ; for they would he wandering outcasts, without a home ! They would sooner die on the land that gave them birth; but they will defend that land till their extirpation is come pleted—and in Georgia there are more enemies than tile Indians! I Make these poor nsen your friende. Cherish them, preserve their ancient habits and language, that one small remnant may say, hereafter—we met with friends, and we flourished ! In the day of reckoning, when man will tremble in th e p resence o f t h e E terna l Spirit, the kindness that you now show to the poor Indian will be as incense before the throne of the Most High, and inexpressibly happy will be the lot of those who obtain the favour of the Eternal Judge. AN INDIAN, •1 0 wee for tit a the Soon after Mohammed, the present Pacha of Egypt, bad acquired that dignity, a woman declared herself possessed of a spit it, which not only spoke, but gave its hand to be kissed in the dark ; and cult was her reputation, that ' Cairo, the army, and the officers, became proselytes, and firmly believed in her supernatural powers. Mohammed,' who well knew the danger that might arise from an igho- ' rant and misguided multitude, determined to find out the! secret of thie woman's magic. For this purpose, lie hired four of the most skilful jugglers to endeavour to entice her before him, but the crowd attending her performances would not permit her to go. He then ordered the Aga of the Police to seize and bring her to the palace, in which, with some difficulty, he sueceeded. The lady said the spirit only spoke by night. Very well (replied Mohammed) we will wait. When the time came, the Pacha and the magi cian withdrew into a dark chamber; the spirit began by calling on the name of Sheik My, and having answered several questions, offered its hand for the Pacha to kiss; lie told it to approach a little nearer, and having felt the fingers of a human being, he made a sudden seizure of the whole hand, holding it firmly, and calling for lights, which dis covered the Pacha grasping the hand of the ventriloquist, (for see was nothing more) who began to scream for mercy. Mohammed, however, deemed it tight to punish the im postor, and ordered her to be drowned in the Nile. 'fhe chiefs and the multitude showed a disposition to oppose this order ; but the Pacha told them that if she was poS messed of a spirit,' it would save her from drowning, and if not, she would only fulfil her destiny ; accordingly she I was thrown into the river, and "offered the usual fate of witches when thus treated. At Kiugsbridge fair, Ott Wodnoaday, the supply of Ind locks and sheep exceeded tho demand, and is consequence •the sale was -dull at reduced prices. REEK INDIANS. l and respectable gentlemen, who are not More • ' .e envoys of the re this proviso was _, — a seets-- epeeist nations and states they represens, than.wc cumstanes for thi The Secretary of W ar , w h o isindeed worthy of his high station, contained in the , Sioll and authentic documents upon for his great'soul is above a subterfuge, says there were treaties for such changes not yet met the eye of the British I with the Cherokees, in 1802, which guaranteed thee lands. But, that time, have are convinced, they will be read i says the committee, " these guarantees were only of ; the Indian the Indians hat le 'philanthropy of which this calm- Me, as understood by all, at the date of the execution of these support were the] of that sort which confines itself to treaties—a title of mere occupancy. for the purposes of hunting. to tame corn and The idea of title to the soil west. until lately unknown to the Indt. have had so hap piarter of the globe, or to the in- sea. Their land, were overrun by them, not Inhabited; their rights oua or imitating The call of human distress will be not transferred, bat extinguished ; depmstletii upon the will of the sperm.. Dian, gh it issue from the farthest verge 1 power to whom the sovereignty over them balonga. This sovereign baptised, and arc ' civilization," from the remote I rower was Georgia, prior to the adoption of the constitution of the society, have but itic continent. The appeal of the I ihited Staten ." Then follows a chain of aStiumptioiss , every link huts; they now which we give underneath, ad- of which is an infraction of the Indiarrrights. We will Acta Ask, government, that against whom were these guarantees made ?—Againat other Pali. proprietary of the their civilized " Masters," might ens ? ?In--for we are capable of defending ourseiven against them. Wligo, the aro the 'lrani of those feelings which Against the people of Georgia ? lies —and for what purpose? To anetnarrgin, the it is not . for the first time I prevent molestation and rotlnd granted for', day, rear, or age, but 1 moss' of the , Lx , the ett i tn i ed and „„ e „ it .,,,,, d , till the Indians should consent to sell their isrids. There was a I offered suc h lei 111 kill us. MEETING Vase CATHOLICS of WEXFORD. The Dublin Dlc•ninti Register of Monday contains a report of the proceedings at a Meeting of the Catholics of the county of Wexford, Sir 'l'. lismonde, Bart. in the chair. The new Catholic. Association was approved of—two silver tureen's were voted to Mr. O'Connell, and it was recom mended to the Catholics of Ireland to meet in every parish on the first Monday of the next Session. We give the following characteristic speech of Mr. Shell : Mf. Slittt rose amidst the most deafening and enthusiastic ap plause, and said, 1 thank vou, and turn at Once to a better theme .than my own gratitude, of which it is unnecessary that you should be enured. 't here stands near the wells of your city a massive hold, which retains the name of the practical chieftain by whom it witscrectial, and la still called Fita•Stephen's tower. It was the first riot raised by the English invaders upon their original descent upon our Aores. Situate at the store of the mountain, and coo. mantling the passage of the stream, whose waters are datkened with its shadow. it is invested with many melancholy associations, and imparts to the solemnity of the scene, what I may call a politi• cal picturesque. (Hear.) From the loss of that tower. memory may take a long and diatual retrospect. 11'ho can behold it With. out recalling the period ofahante and of sorrow, when that monument of the disasters and the degradation of Ireland was first erected upon its precipitouS and gloomy height ? Since the warder first paced its summit, and the beacon of invasion was first lighted on its hattlenienta, coattiriea have passed away. Years have flowed by like the waters which it overshadow., and vet it is not changed. I It stands as tine as if it were of the work of ye;terday ; and as it was the first product of English domination, so it is its type. The policy of Eto:lanti is as unaltered as that barbarous hold, and the Norman Baron who raised it on that rock did not lift a more op. massive arm than the monster who sway% chi') ill fated land with as Iron rule. The spirit of Strongbnw lives in the heart of Liverpool ; and the gauntlet of Fite-Stephen was not more heavy than the hand .of Peel. (Cheers.) The system by which England obtained her conquest is undecayed. Discoid is still the great canon of empire. (Applause.) The distinction of country has been succeeded by the distinction of creed. Religion is made a substitute for nationality. anti the Statt sown of St. Stephen's Chapel act up to the principlea of .i'itz.Stephen's Tower. (Cheers.) If there be those who have had a peculiarly fatal experience of the truth of these reflections, they are to be found among the inhabitants of this unfortunate district. Wexford is surrounded by the memorials of events 'which cost the blood of ninny and the tears of all. The battles I of a brier but formidable insurrection were waged upon the hills that overhang your city. (Cheers.) But ft is not necessary to pass I its gates in order to impress upon you the Jesson which should be I derived front these appalling recollections. Who can behold your streets—who can look upon the waters of your river—who can look upon the bridge to which so many dreadful associations are at. I 'ached, without a feeling of dismay ? I would to heaven that the fabric on which such misdeeds were done were swept into the ocean, and that not a single memorial cf that terrible and guilty day should be permitted to remain ! Strange that it should continue sa long ! Thearchitect did not calculate upon the possibility of its permanence. It is now thirty years since the shriek of warfare was drowned in the dashing of the water, that beat against it; it seems as if every tide I would wash it away, yet there its mouldering beams remain, anti it stands the monument of a terrific and admonitory incident. Al. mighty God ! what a day must that have been when, in the insanity of ret enge, mad with accumulated wrongs, and in the ferocity of political reaaliation, the infuriated peasantry precipitated themselves ' upon the unarmed and defenceless wretches who screamed in vain for' limey, and dyed the waters with their blood. Ido not dwell upon these appalling eVents with a sanguinary predilection. It is nut in the wantonness of declamation that I revert to these:painful recollections; neither is it for the purpose of visiting these crimes upon the heads of those men who goaded the people into savageness. and made them ferocious, desperate. aril mad. Tails!! not tell you that it was proved before the Committee of the House of Commons ttnit these barbarous excesses were produced by the tortures which preceded them. It is not necessary to strike a balance of atrocity ; and it I have reverted to these events, it is for no other purpose then to impress upon you the imperative anti awful need of straining every effort for the pacification of your country, and for the accorn. plialiment of that measure, without which Ireland cannot be paci fied, and which will afford the best security that these scenes' of disaster never may return. These are not Comm for sophistication and equienque. Sooner or later, the popular passions will again boil up, and the volcanic matter will once more find a vent. You. over whern the lay.t that is yet scarcely cool, rolled down, watch the smoke of the crater, and remember that another eruption may take place. This is not the ebullition of a mind fermenting with bad and foul emotions—none but the utterly desperate can desire a convulsion, which would be in all likelihood as unavailing as it wouki he bloody. But how deeply would it steep Ireland in tears.' It should, however, be remembered, that that which we may de. precate, se may not be able to avert. (Applause.) The office of prevention lies with the Ministry, whose leaders in the House of Cominons have lately told them, that the enemies of England had fixed their hopes upon this discontented country. (Loud cheers.) That intimation, to which I have done no more than given a distinct expression s contains a warning in which every subject of this land is equally etoacerned. Protestants of Ireland—the cause is yours' as much as it is our own. (Loud cheers.) Do rot console your selves with the rum and sellish hope that these events cannot hap. pen before you have deseerided into the earth. The interest of your eitibiren is at stake. and the time may come (God grant that it may never arrive !) when your sons shall be slaughtered on your thresholds, and yew daughters may scream fur help upon their fathers' grave. tLoud and continued cheers.) 111 r. Shell pursued this train of reflexion with much erbphasis, and concluded by' calling upon Mr. Cesar Colclough, in the moat energetic terms. to present hiniself as a candidate for the county. lie trusted that his appeal would not be in vain; but if there existed any reason to prevent Mr. Colclough from obeying the call of his country, let Arthur Chichester conic forward; and the indepentlant people of Wexford would support him to a men. The cheers were renewed with unabated fervour at the close of Mr. Shell's speech. Mr. Cotetoucii. however, declined standing 36 a candidate for the county, as lie had formerly done. Ile said he had neither taste, health, nor talents, for politics. Ile had, besides, been re siding 27 years abroad. Air. CHICHESTER subsequently offered himself. Mr. CadEw, one of the county members, was 1: resent, but took no part in the proceedings. Mr. O'CoNNE tr. was compelled to quit the Meeting without addressing it, being called out to attend in Court. BCRIAL AT SEA. It was a morning at sea—the sun had just risen, and not a cloud appeared to obstruct his rays—a light breeze played upon the bosom of the slumbering ocean—the still ness of the morning was only disturbed by the ripple oG the water, or the driving of the flying fish. It seemed as if the calm and noiseless spirit of the deep was brooding over the waters. The National flag, displayed half-way, down the royalmast, played in the breeze, unconscious of its import: the vessel glided in serenity, and seemed tran quil as the element, on whose surface she moved ; she knew not of the sorrows within her bosom, and appeared to look down on the briny expanse beneath her, in all the confi dence and security of thought. To her brave crew it was a morning of gloom : they had been boarded by the angel of death, and tlie forccastie now contained all that was mortal of his victim ; his soul had made its final exit. Grouped around the v:iodlass and engaged in reflection, the hardy 69:19 of the ocean sympathised with each other. Conscience was at his post. 1 believe they were impressed with the realities of eternity—they spoke of the vir tues of their deceased messinate—of his honesty, his sen sibility, his generosity—one recollected to bast seen him share his last dollar of hard-earned wages with a tressed shipmate—all could attest to his affability.— They spoke of his accomplishments as a sailer, of his re allution, of the nerve of his arm, and the intrepidity of his soul in the hour of peril, while the winds of heaven were let loose in all their fury, Red destruction was en the wing—seize the helm, and hold the ship securely till the danger had passed by. They would have continued - long in their reverie, but they were summoned to prepare. fur the rites of sepulture, and pay-the last honours to their breathless companion. The work was commenced with heavy hearts and many a sigh. A rude coffin was con structed, and the body placed within it. The hardy crew, In their tar-stained habiliments, coal tonna : the main hatches were his bier, a foresail was his pall. The main topsail was hove to the mast ; the ship paused in her comae, and stood still : and as we " committed his body to the deep," I heard the knell of the ship hell, and the plunge of the coffin. The tears started in the eyes of the generous tars. Ali/ soul melted within me as I thought of the home scenes of him whom we buried in the deep—of joys digit were to be dashed with woe—of hopes that were to be drowned in sorrow.—Cheeleston Courier. Shortly after nine o'clock, yesterday morning, the inha bitants of Long's-court, St. Martin's-street, Leicester quare, 'were thrown into a state of great alarm, owing to, the falling in of the floors of the houses, Nos. 3 and 4, in the court. The inmates. consisting of poor people, had just Lillie to f,arc their lives. At twelve o'clock the roofs of the houses fell, and for a few minutes the whole neigh. lourhood was enveloped in a complete cloud of dust from the ruins. The principal part of the persons who were thus deprived of their dwellings, are removed to St. Mar tin's workhouse; others have obtained lodgings in the, neighbourhood. Moat of the furniture Ims been dug from out of the ruins. The annoyance jury eentlemned the whole of the houses in Long's-cow t last Thursday, and I elve the inhabitanp notice to quit, but they bad been per. I suaded to remain, by an assurance that no immediate dan ger was to be apprehended. The apples grow fast in the South Hams. The crop is varicd,, in some orchards bcirg plentiful, and in others ra ther slight. It is expected that ciakr will make SOs. per hogshead, in the pounding season. LETTING OP rns CUSTOM-110M DOCfS, DUBLIN. Considerable . interest was t xcitrd among the mercantile gentlemen of Dublin, on Thursday last, by the puttitp up to public letting the Custom-house Quays, Hod, Warehouses, &c., of that city. The Hon. Mr. Le 1 4 ,,e- Trench, one of the Commissioners, Mr. Waller, the t 4 . ,. licitor to the Revenue, and other principal officers, havie. taken their seats, Mr. Winstanley, a re - pectable Londe:. auctioneer, read the conditions of the sale, and after ob. serving upon the advantages to an active intelligent lesst‘c becoming the tenant, he then stuted that if any further I information was required by gentlemen bey on d what was !mentioned in the printed statements, he was ready t o I afford it. Mr. Rao env inquired, whowas to pay the Dock-ttaster, ffie gatekeepers, and to light the concerns ? Mr. WINSTANT.PY replied, that the lessees would, of course, provide their own officers, the Commissioners pre. serving the right as At present existing for the execution of the necessary duties by the officers of the Revenge. The lighting would be done by the lessees at their own expense. ' The bidding was then proceeded on ; the tirineipai bidder's were Mr. Carroll, Linen hall ; Mr. Scored, br9- tiler to the Assistant Snretary of the Customs; Mr J..- sph Pim, and Mr. Brophy. The contest was between Mr. Carroll and Mr. Scove:: The latter gentleman was declared the highest bidder. 6,020/. per annum, for a term of seven, fourtecr, c r twentv-one years, at his option. The bidding co:- - menee'd at 1,000/., and continued for half an hour, no ad vance lets than twenty pounds. The price is considered a fair one. Mr. Winstanley conducted the business in a very gen. t7emanly and business-like manner. COMBINA TION. Dt:eux. On Saturday morning. between three and four o'clock, peace. office?' Oilioughly m'ai Cox repaired to Rathfarnham, and sec. ceeded in apprehending two paper-makers, named Thomas Smi:h aid John Spleane, against whom informations were lodged be Joseph 11111, which charged them, that on Thursday, while the deponent was in the milljard of Mr. Pickering, the said two men, with others, violently beat and &moulted him, for being at work at Mr. Pickering's. The two prisoners, after an examination before the .Magistrates, were ordered to stand committed for trial at the next Commission. Michael Murray, one of the same trade. was brought before the Magistrates, when it appeared, that on Friday, as a party of police were escorting several Scotchnten, paper-makers, into town from Mr. Pickering's, to protect them from violence, the parry was fol. lowed by the prisoner ; and the Scotchmen perceiving him, inf o rm e d the police of the circumstance, stating that they apprehended he was following to ascertain where they (the Scotehmen) might stop in town. in order to give information to the body, and have then "slated." The police, therefore, desired Murray several times to return, and not follow them ; but his threats and insolence were so often repeated, and his persevercnce in following so determined, that the police took him into custody, and brought him before the Magistrates. 1 he prisoner assured the Magistrate that it was not the police he threatened but the Scotchmem To a questio n from why he had threatened the Scotchmen ? he replied, " because they worked the machinery at Golden-bridge, to be sure." Upon which the 31agistrates, uncial the authority of the new Act, committed the prisoner for three moults' confinement and hard labour at the tread-mill, for using threatening and violent language to deter the persons stated from following their employment. Four other paper-makers ' against whom informations were,sv orn for having used violent an d threatening language on Thursday, during the riot at Mr. Pickering's mill, as stated in our paper of Saturday. were elmo committed for three months to hard labour st the tread-mill.—F ran ton's Journal. CORK, JULY 23. The meeting convened by the Mayor, SheriftS. and Magistrates of this City, on the subject of combination, and for adopting the necessary measures for the suppression of the spirit which had beeo manifested by the attack on Messrs. Payne's residence on Wearies day . night last, was held yesterday at the City Court-house ; it was respectably, but not numerously attended. His Worship the Mayor baying taken the Chair, briefly stated the occasion of the meeting, and the outrage which had been com mitted, and the reason there was to apprehend that the spirit bad extended amongst a large proportion of the tradesmenywhith of course it would ba necessary to adopt measures to suppress. Since the meeting, however, had been called, he was gratified in stating, such information had been received as led to the hope that the tradesmen would return to their duty, and that they would not put. sue the same illegal course. Under these circumstances, 9a ten- saltation with the Magistrates; it bad been considered advisable to adjonm the present meeting to a futur e d a y, s h ou ld any occas i on cad for it; at the same time to declare that watchful care slieuld be used to protect all persona from any aggression on the part of the tradesmen. The meeting generally appeared to concur in the observations which his Worship had expressed, and in the opinion of the 31s . gis:rates with whom he had consulted. 31e. John Bennett observed, that it should be remembered by the tradesmen, independent of the impropriety of such proceedings, of which they must themselves be conscious, that all losses sus rained from similar outrages would be levied upon the city, already very heavily burdened, and that they would themselves be subject to a portion of the amount. After a few further observations of a similar nature, and enforcing his advice upon the tradesmen to re turn to peaceful habits, the meeting was adjourned. SINGULAR Arm - it:KT.—A dreadful accident, occr.sione‘l in a most singular manner, occurred yesterday, at I o'clock, at the engine factory of Mr. Payne, Greenwich. A young man, named Zachariah K Maley, beiug employed to cleanse a flew, covered himself, excepting his bead, arms, and hands, with tow, to keep off the soot, and which, he un fortunately set on fire, by going too near a lighted candle r he had in the flue with him, and was instantly shrouded in flames, which the confined nature of the place prevented being extinguished until his face and arms were burnt in a manner too dreadful for description. Ile was conveyed in a caravan to St. Thomas's Hospital, in extreme agony. where he lingers in a most deplorable and dangerous con dition. Cntrr, DROrprNG.—On Tuesday night an inffint, about one month old, was placed by its onnatural parent at the entrance into Wheeler's-yard, in Park -stmt, near the Borough Market,. A man who happtnd to have been passing by at one o'clock in the morning, heard the cries of a child, and on proceeding to the above place discovered the infant lying on .the ground, wrapped up in an old flannel patticoat. The child was conveyed to St. Saviour's ‘Vorkhonse, where it now remains, and the parish officers have offered a reward for the apprehension of its unr&.ural parent. CORN EXCHANGE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27. The supplies this week, fresh up, consist of 2,800 quarters of Wheat, 1,860 quarters of Barley, and 6,810 quarters of Oats, wit:: 2,750 sacks of Flour. With the exception of Beans, for which th •re wawa good demand at 31onday'a price, our market was very heavy to.day for all grain ; currency as on Monday. COAL MARKET, •11.:LY 27. Ships at Markel. Ships Sold. Price. 1,38/ Ntwcamle - - 311 • . 2 9 • Od to 39. ea IN sunderhod - 141 - Stos Od to Nos bpi 1 Scotch Coal - . 1 - -38 a Od to —s Od BIRTHS. On the 25th inst. Mrs. William Charsley, of iiryodhamplue, Brysnston-sfluare, of a son. (in the 22d inst. Mra. R. Clare, of Frith.street, Soho, of a dough. tor On the 21st inst. in Chapel street, the lady of Captain Sander son. Bengal Cavalry. of a daughter. On the 25th inst. at Garboldishum, Norfolk, the Marchioness 01 Blandford, of a son. MARRIED. On Tuesday, the 26th, by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop c• London, the Rev. George Martin, Canon Residential and l h cellor of the diocese of Exeter, to the Lady Charlotte Eh, t, youngest daughter of the Earl of St. Germain& On the 25th inst. at Ripple, Kent, by the Rev. Wm. Lade. the Rev. Robert M`Shen, Rector of that parish, and Vicar of Brow limn-cum-Oakley, Bedfordshire, to Lucy, second daughter of late W. S. Coast, Esq. otsßipple House. On Tuesday, the 26th inst. at St. Panama Church, by the ReL Joseph Brackenburg. George Hopkinson. Esq. of Kentish-tes n. to Miss Eliza Isabella Alder, of Battersea Rise. DIED. On the 24th, Joseph Hague Waasttif. Esq. of Highgate. On Monday, the 23th Mat. at her residence, St. Alban's Bank. Hampton, Middlesex, Catherine, relict of the' Right Rea. Samuel Lord Bishop of St. Auld), and second daughter of William Cooke, 1). I). late Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and Dean of Ely. On the inst. John Church, Esq. of No. 3, Bedfonl-place, )%loomsbury-square, in the GAN year of his age. On Sunday last, at her house in Montague-street, Mil. Conyers, relict of the late John Conyers, Esq. of Copt Hall, Essex. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DA4r Aiming 48 min. after 11 1 Evening 16 min. after I. rt:llted at Tll6 BRITISH PRE: 131, Strand, and publ! . 1 1 , rd by Office. by J IV • C ARS. TON !.CA.Nxox, came • Iro SCI Co the 7, 6 A the, T WI Wa arde lath 4T sad MN ham' wba Pk Fi Din phi A inad the: P INC age I most fi the o UT, 'but 1 po 0 OS I nun! bight are a ebi — i 17:sui their Thant alma Mark .L Mork scale, in ad whic, k eu Brit ngl If IC peril went rni , Sth - I trefa4 expli Tb ix bu retiij be et artid the I , Pub' genii nierc Corn