Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-06-10
JACQUES.
For the Arkansas Intelligencer.
Cherokee Nation, 9th June, iS43.

Messrs Edhors:-I have had my attention call
ed to a correspondence, in your paper, between
james Starr, Charles Reese and George w. A.
dair, and John Ross, principal chief of the Cher
okee nation. This correspondence has its face
The impress, Of having eminated from or at least
that it was authorized by John Ross. The letter
to yourselves, shows the last effort of sinking
man, to save himself from the disgrace and od-
un of having already imbrued his hands in the
haet blood r i~ otIvI Uno-oo. Co..dv.n..oI n. he
knows he mast ever be among all good men, to
universal cXecration, it is well for him now to
publish his stale protestations that "My desire
has erer been The COOL of the Cherotets indiriduaI-
ly and collectively, and you cannot bu: kno.c that
my best Efforts for the promotion of peqce and har-
mohy hare dl'cdys been ererted.''
Who is there among the Cherokees or citizens
of the United States can doubt these solemn as.
servations! Was he not studying the good Of the
Chorokees "indiUiduaily' when he charged and
received out of their indiriduai money upwa rds
OF one hundred dollars per head, for transporting
them through cold and bleak winter, detaining
them an average Of over ono hundred and eighty
days, in order that he might increase his own
spoiIs and benefit his own family! Was it not
for their indiriduai good that he thus robbed eve
ry individual Cherokee Of some eighty dollars per
head, which but for his falsehoods, would long
since have been paid them! Was he not studying
their good indiriduaHy and collectively" when
IN his message last fall, he denied having receiv-
ed any money under the " Sche-merhorn Trea-
ty,' when his own receipts charged him with
nearly fourteen hundred thousand dollars paid and
:hnt after the report of his favorte John Bell Sc.
cretary of War. told him the money was coming
out of the indiridual funds Of the Cherokeesl
Has he not been studying their good, their peace
and happiness, "while he has been consuming
all their annutes for twenty years in visits to
oh wit lies of fhaI
Georgians driven out Of the country, of making a
:" final adjustment Of all their difficulties - with
out ever effecing single object which has bono
fitted any but himself, his brother and half doz.
on others? As Mr.. Ross seems fond of getting
his protestations Of studying the happiness of sour
whole people, into tho public prints, | now beg
of him to point to sing gle act of his life. since he
has been principal chief, which has benefited the
Chcrokees " individually or coectivelv."
Now to his desire to promote :: peace and
harmony." This is the Same tune which Mr.
Ross sang whom he prostrated the Government, or
tho Western Cherokees-calIed convention with.
out authority of law-employed assassns to sa y
all those who stood in his way or might exnoS.
his frauds; cried aloud that he was in favor orl
peace and quiet at the very moment when ,ha
manged corpse ct the pious and devoted BouG;no,
was lying within mile of his house-aud when
az al Inc same moment hundreds of deIuded rr,oJ
Cherokees were assembling around him road',
40 his bidding. What pacific man ever vel fnnrJ
II necessary to collect several hundred armed mon
around him at tho very moment when these ind;
vauals were cruelty assassinated at distances al
n'ty or SIXTY miles apart! Had John Ross beon
written to on the very fatal morning of the BOND
'uhe' 1889, and informed that certain {" noIau
companies had been organized to slay "tbe trsa.
y party and among them the best men of the 10
.on' would no not have returned the same G,Iso lie"
tnswo,' winch he returned to Starr, Adair and
reese! And yet who believes that he did nn,
!, Know OF, and direct the potl In an bonr f,o .o
nouulhot was slam he wrote to Gen. Arbuckle do.
n.y. lying al knowledge of the murderers and nrav.
~ u" 'n'erposl'ion Of the troops under the Cen Cen.