The Arkansas advocate., 1830-09-29
THE INDIANS.
From 1se C7'erokee Paaenar Eatra, July 9.
 ADDRESS.

ADDRESS.
 Of dte Committee and Council of tie Cilerokcc Mutton, iaa General Council con psaed, to the people of de Unled States. Some months ago delegation was appointed by the constituted auther.- ties of the Cherokee nation, to repair 10 the City of Washington, and, ln De- half of this nation, to lay before the Government of the United States such ;. representations, as should seem most likely to secure to us as people that protection, aid, and good nelghborhood, which had been so often promised to US. and ot which we stand in great need. Soon after their arrival in the City they presented 10 Congress a petition from our National Council, asking for the in- deposition oi that body in our behalf, especially with reference 10 the laws of oeosla, winch eresuspended in most leffilying manner over a large part of our population, and protesting in the most decided terms against the opera ton ot those laws. In the course of
 
 me winter they presented petitions to congress, signed by more than four uiousaiiu oiour citlzells, including, pro- oaDiJ, more tnan nineteen twentieths. and for augnt we can tell ninety-nine hishdredtils oi the adult males of the na- ton, tour whole population being about slXteen thousand) pleading with the as- semoled representatives of the Amcri- cahpeople, Lnattae olemnengagenents bel"ee.l tiieir fathers may be preserved. as they nave been till recently, in full force and continued operatiou-askino. Ill word, TOT protection against threat ened usdrpatlon, ,and for faithful exc cution ol q guaranty, which k perfectly Plain Tn it's meaning; has been repeat ealy aad rlgldly enforced in our favor ; and nao received the sanction of the government of the United States for nearly forty years.
 More than year ago we were ofli- elaiit 5iveato understand by the Secrc- tafy of Var, that the President could iot pfotectus against the laws of Geo
 
 s'as Inis information was entirely un- cAPected--as 1t went upon the princi- pie, tndt treaties made between the Unit ea States and the Cherokee Nation have no power to withstand the legislation of separate States--and of course. that tney nave no efficacy whatever, but leave our people to the mercy of the hei5aooringwAltes whose supposedintcr- estS would De promoted byour expulsion, CT externinatioii. itvould be irnpossi- Die to describe the sorrow, which affect "a our minds, on learning that the Chief Magistrate Of the United States had come to tnls conclusion, thataIl his illustrious predecessors had held intercourse with Us on principles which could not be sus- tliaed; that they had made promises oi Vital importance to us, which could not pc tnllllled-promses made hundreds oi times, ln almost every conceivable manner-often in the form of solemn treaties, sometimes in letters written by the Chief Magistrate with his own hand, very often in letters written by The Secretary of War, under his direc- ton, sometimes orally by the President and the Secretary to our chiefs, and frequently and always, both orally and n writing, by the Agent of the United states residing among us, whose mos important business it was to sec the guar anty of the United States faithfully ex ccuted.
 Soon after after ttsse war of the Revolution IS We have learned from onr fathers, the herokecs looked upon the promises Q the whites with great distrust and snspi elon-but the frank and magnanimou' conduct of General Washington die much to allay these feelings. The per severance of successive Presidents, and