Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-10-21

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The authorities above are not quoted so
much in confirmation of the opinion we adj
vanced as to show that we did not speak al
together unadvisedly. We would thank
any of our friends who are farmers to ac-
quaint us with the result of their experience
on this subject.
THE CHEROKEE INDIANS. Efforts are
now making, under the authority of the gen.
eral government, to remove the Cherokee
Indians still further from the settlements of
the whites in Alabama. We have once or
twice alluded to the dignified feeling and
Independent spirit which pervades the nation
of Cherokees on this subject, and have quot
ed the language of the newspaper which is
printed among them, by one of their own
nation, in proof fit. The extract below is
from the Cherokee Phenix of Sept "a. 1t
is part of a letter from the Indian inhabitants
of one of the districts of the Cherokee ma
ton to VIM. Hicks, Chief, on the subject
of the intended visit of the United States a.
gent, to endeavour to persuade them to re-
move. 1t is signed by fourteen Indians
No freeman who duly prizes his liberty can
read it without emotions of admiration
"Our judgement is, that it behoves to stand
fast and to hold our lands for the benefit Of our ris-
ing families We consider it exceedingly vexatious,
be perpetualy leased to part with our inheritance
Just as we are rising out of obscurty, and are begin
ming to occupy respectable standing, in the esti-
nation of Christians who know us, and who now
possess the country on which our fathers once resd-
ed and raised their children Must prospects be
always blasted? We think our white brethren will
answer, no.
! We are determined to hold fast the land of our
nativity We do not wish to turn our feet from our
original habitation, nor to move step further
towards the setting sun our native soil being well
watered and healthful. We are happy when we
rise in the morning to behold all things look fresh
and cheerful and especially to children rum
ming to and fro, partly raised in our former old
| towns.
Parts of our lands, have, from time to time, been
sold from under feet: our wives and our child
rem have been ousted, and our property scattered,
till, in many instances, it has been all lost, and
I families reduced to want. Our old men say they
are fully determined to have their bones laid in these
mountains. One of the old men from Damatlee
says he will agree to let go inch more Of
| land"
The following is extracted from COM
munication in the same paper, signed by
Young Beaer, an Indian. The reader will
recollect that the late treaty touching the
removal of the Cherokees offers them few
pounds of tobacco each, and some other
triAing trinckets, as an inducement for them
to leave their native land -
"The offer of few such paltry articles as brass
kettle, few pounds of tobacco &c is too insignif-
cant to be thought of, as an inducement for us to
abandon our cultivated possessions, and join our
wilder brethren in the west 1t is too late to think
we can be SO much allured by soft scords and smooth
promises as to sell our birth-rght for few dried
leaves of noxious weed. Those who may entertain
an opinion of our speedy removal and that too to be
effected by such triing inducements as above, will
be lost in the labyrinth of their peculatons and ere
long the splendid mansions which their maginations
will vanish before reality like darkness before the r;s
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