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Nh. STACY - The following letter taken
fpm a recent number ofthe Concord ass. }
(azette, has struck me as being worthy
tie increased circulation which republ.
cation in your columns would give it, both
onthe ground Of its own merits, and of
the gravity Of its subject. The decision
of Ibis Cherokee question must implcate
the moral character of our Government
moe directly and more deeply than per-
has any other which has arisen in its his.
toy. This decision is yet pending. If on
such subject, at such a juncture, there
be any virtue in the manly expression of
manly sentiments, a publication like this
cal hardly fail of interest and Value
Moral considerations pressed home with
such earnestness and plainness of speech
may reasonably be supposed to have had
some part in bringing matters to their
present issue.
To anticipate very natural inquiry. it
may be appropriately added, that the au.
thor, Mr.. Emerson, is a man of letters,
who, Of late years, has gained an enviabe
name in the region Of Boston by his de.
votedness to all humane studies, and the
peculiar eloquence Of his public discourses
1t is to him that the public are indie ted
for the republication, in this country, of
Sartsr Resartus and other works of his
frienl Carlyle the English philosopher.
ny.
4, MARTIN VAN buren,,
President Of The United States.
Concord, Mass. April 90, 1888.
SirrThe seat you fill, places you in a
relatin of credit and dearness to every
citizet BY right, and natural position.
every citizen is your friend. Before any
acts cNtrary to his own judgment or in.
terest ave repelled the affections of any
man, Och may look with :rust and loving
anticiHtions to your government. Each
has thhighest right to call your attention
to sucteubjects as are of public nature
and prperly belong to the chief magis-
trate ind the good magistrate will feel
Joy in peeting such confidence. In this
belief, nd at the instance of a few of nv
friendAnd neighbors, l crave of your pa.
tiencel short hearing for their sentiments
and n own; and the Circumstance that
my noe will be utterly unknown to you
will dy give the fairer chance to your
equitile construction of what | have to
say.
Shiny communication respects the sin.
isterbmours that fill this part of the coun.
try @cerning the Cherokee people. The
intepst always felt in the Aboriginal pop.
ulath--an interest naturally growing as
thatecays--has been heightened in re.
garlic this tribe. Even in our distant
stat some good rumor OF their worth ard
civty has arrived. We have learned
wiUoy their improvement in social arts.
WI have read their newspapers. We
ha seen some ofthem in our schools and
co!ges. In common with the great body
ofo American people we have witnessed
WI sympathy the painful labors of these
Iemen to redeem their own race from the
d4n of eternal inferiority, and to borrow
a5domesticate in the tribe, the arts and
c1oms of the caucasian race. And not.
outstanding the unaccountable apathy
VIII which OF late years the Indians have
10 sometimes abandoned to their enc.
YES, il 10 not to DO doubted that il il the
bod pleasure and the understanding of