The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-09-15

elerence 10 seafaring, weather beaten men. of
man 'edeofes and honest co1ntenances. The fore
VINO Is said to have differed with ten of me
E olner jurors, had as fine, OPEN and honest face
as we ever beheld. ANY man. however heinz
rom salem was challenged instantly CHALLENGE
with set aside. ~ ~ i III
such characters as Richard Crowninsbield and
.onn fahcls hnapp-cool, daring and fearless
possessing talents of certain kind. without arv
niPithy Ior society, or obedience to its lust and
! Mholesome laws, are the most dangerous and iniu
nous to every well regulated Community We
ana Vlilany, simple and unaccompanied by any re-
ileTlhg quality, create unqualified detestation-it
ID TIE mixed composition that is most deleterious
ADDRESS OF THE CHERoKEEs
Extracts from the Address of the /" Committee and
I C0uncu Of the Cherokee Nation in General Corn
c't coavened," TO tie people ofthe United States
we wish to remain on the land of orr Gatbars
we nave perfect and original right to claim With
out interruption or molestation The treaties with
US, ana laws OF the United States made in nnrsi,-
VI ueaues, guaranty our residence and our
PIiIYneges, and secure US against intruders. Our
only request is that these treaties NAV he f,l6I1d
| and these laws executed
put II we are compelled to leave our couptrv
~. zee n3thlng but ruin before US. The country
I west OF the Arkansas Territory is pnknown 80 ~
FROM what we can learn of it. we have no nranos
sessions IN Its favor. All the inviting parts ~ -
DIS we pelleVe, are preoccu pied by yarious Ind;on
nae, 'P9 TO which it had been assigned. They
would regard us as intruders. and Iook unor -
with an EVIL eye. The far greater part of that 70
sioh IS beyond all controversy badly sl,pned with
WOOD and water; and no Indian tribe can live os
without these articles. All our neioh
OUTS, In case OF our removal tbouob crowdaJ -
our near vicinity, would speak A 1anou,go totaii
nierent from ours, and practise different customs
Inc original possessors of that region are now a
Ieri9g sgayages, lurking for prey in the neipbbor
MOOD They have always been at war nj 9roId
J nm hatr
iul emigrants. Were the country to Which nc ar
urged much better than it is represented 70 ba
anu were II free from the objections which we
nave made to 1t. still it is not the land of orr b;rth
nor OF our affections. 1t contains neither ~,
fathers. s"'es VI our
Inc removal of families to a new country. even
1muei tle most favorable auspices, and when the
spirits are sustained by pleasing visions of the fin,
lure, IS attended with much denrese;o, &c -
ana SINKING OF heart. This is the case whom The
IeinoNai Is matter of decided preference and
men lhe persons concerned are in early youth or
vigorous manhood. Judge, then what must he the
circumstances OF a removal, when whole COM
muhty, embracing persons of all classes and every
description from the infant to the man of ertrana
oid age the sick, the blind, the lame-the improy-
49, the reckless, the desperate, as well as the
Prudent-the considerate the industrious are com
Peued to remove by odious and intolerable vera-
Hohs ana prosecutions brought upon them in tbe
forms OF law, when all will agree only in this that
they nave been cruelty robbed of their country
IN violation OF the most solemn compacts which
1t Is possible for communities to form with eacb
cbTnfUf ua5h fhat.jG theT should make themselve.
to expect hereafter but to be the victims of flu
ture egaized robbery!
Such we deem, and are absolutely certain will
be the feelings of the whole Cherokee people. if
they are forcibly compelled by the laws of Georgia
to remove; and with these feelings how is il nos
sible that we should pursue our present course of
| improvement, avoid sinking into utter despon-
I Qelcy o have all
| and degraded people. We certainly are not rich
nor have we boosted of our knowledge or our
moral or intellectual elevation. But there is not
man within our limits so ignorant as not to know
that he has right to live the land of his fathers
IN the possession of his immemorial privileges and
that this right has been acknowledged and guaran-
! teed by the United States nor is there man So
degraded as not to feel keen sense of injury on
being deprived of this right and driven into exile
/ 1t is under sense of the most pungent feelings
that we make this, perhaps our last appeal TO the
| good people of the United States. 1t cannot he
, that the community addressing remarkable
for its intelligence and religious sensibilities and
! preeminent for its devotion to the rights of man.
will lay aside this appeal, without considering that
we stand In need of its sympathy and commisera-
ton. We know that to the Christian and the Phi
lanthroplst the voice of our multiplied sorrows and
hery trials will not appear an idle tale In our
own land, on our own SOIL and in our own dwell
hngs, which we reared for our wives and for our
little ones, when there was peace on our noun tans
and IN our valleys, we are encountering troubles
which cannot but try our very souls But shall
we. on account of these troubles forsake our be-
loved countryl Shall we be compelled by civil
lied and Christian people, with whom we have liv-
ed in perfect peace for the last forty years and for
whom we have willingly bed in war to bid final
adieu to our homes, our farms our streams and
our beautiful forests No. We are still firm.
We intend still to cling, with our wonted affection
to the land which gave us birth, and which, every
day of our lives, brings to and stronger ties
Iofa alta W Il a. Ii =
earth, who will finally award US Justice and to the
good sense of the American people, whether we
are intruders upon the land Of Others Our con-
= sciences bear Us witness that we the invaders
! of no mans rights-we have robbed no man of his
territory-we have usurped no mans authority, nor
have we deprived any of his unalienable privi-
leges. How then shall we indirectly confess the
right Of another people to land by leaving it
for everf On the soil which contains the ashes
Of our beloved men we wish to live-on this soil
we wish to die.
! TIE INQUIsITIvE VALET. Talleyrand had q
confidential servant excessively devoted to his in
terest, but withal superlatively inuusitiye Hay.
ing one day entrusted him with letter the Prince
watched his faithful valet from the window of his
= apartment, and with some surprise observed him
9 cody reading the letter route. On the mex. day
a a similar commission confded to the servant
q | and to the second letter added a POSTSCRIPT
= I couched in the following terms -" You may senC
. a verbal answer by the bearer he is perfectly &C
= quainted with the whole affair. having taken tn,
precaution to read this previously to its delivery
= Such postscript must have been more effectua
,. than the severest reproachcs.
10 ~ A distinguished gentleman in New York wa
~ asked how he thought the present Secretary of tn
y Navy would do. He made no direct answer bu
= told this story: A gentleman came to the racin
!. course with fine blood horse and challenged in
i. divduals to with him, but they declined. The
4 he challenged The turf, but competitor presente
himself; at length man came up riding on tn
h back Of OK, and he being informed Of this postur
q of the sport, rode up and stumped the stumper
= who now in his turn declined the contest an
= withdrew. On being asked why he declined tn
E fellows bet, "why," said he with knowing an