The Arkansas banner., 1843-10-14

Il Capt. John Rogers, of the Cherokee Nation, addressed to the MtelIigeneer, that our bor- der feuds are waxing warm. Capt. Rogers, it will be remembered, is one of the old Cherokee party, who first enigrated to the West.
 He bitterly, and no doubt justly, complains of the usurpaton of John Ross. There seems to be but little probability of a cessa- ton of hostilities, without the intervention of the Unlted States Government
 For the .4r1tdn$qS HateRigeacer.
 .HeSSrs. Clarke and Sterne - have re- ceived your paper of the Both September, in which l find several anonymous eommuni- cations, containing insinuations of high crimes against myself and other citizens of the Cher okee Nation.
 What has induced you to depart from a rule, which you sometime since established, in regard to having characters assailed by anonymous scribblers, l am unable to con- lecture.
 Ever since the enunciation of that rule, your paper has not ceased to publish the se- verest strictures upon citizens of the Chero- kee Nation. These charges all come from one side, and are often accompanied by edl- torals, showing any thing but neutrality in Cherokee politics. This specimen of Cor sistency must certainly be interesting to read CTS in your State, or you would not adopt 1t.
 So long, gentlemen, as your correspond ents choose to deal in general denunciations, their strictures will be unnoticed by those whose characters are too far above suspicion to be injured by anonymous scribblers, or known assassins, Qsurpers, and tyrants.- But when find my name held np to public indignation in public journal, its conductors will certainly accord to me the right to de- iend assaults upon my reputation. know the nature of my opponents too well, to hope for defence whenever they shall choose to point the assassin2s darts against my person. i All who remember tie memorable 22nd of l June, 1899, and the events which followed that bloody day, are well aware what those who now denounce conspirators can do.
 It is fortunate, that these charges are made among people who have known me for twenty-five years-a people for whom, l, in common with other Cherokees, in 1898, i yielded the rich lands which they now oc- cupy, and purchased the country which my enemies now occupy, against the solemn guaratee of the United States, as expressed in four different treaties. To those citizens on your frontier, now appeal, and ask, when were bloody murders, fearful conspracies, and cruel tragedies first heard of in the Cher okee nation When was your soil first in- vaded, and Cherokee blood shed by Chero- kees, in open day? When were your peace (ul citizens, who chose to travel or trade in the Cherokee country, first abused, maimed, or slain Did ever such scenes disgrace our land until the arrival of John Ross and the emigrants of his party, ill 1882 Who, among the Cherokees, first refused to deliver a murderer to justice, whether demanded by the Marshal of the United States, the Mili- tary, or the State authorities ? Was such a thing ever beard of before the usurpation by the Ross party, of our government in 1882 These are questions which am willing that ,rn,,r raedare eho,,1I
 Your '' ''Beattie's Prairieo anonymous cor respondent says ss Mr. Ross has written to General Taylor on the subject of Captain Rogers, and others, assembling in council, out of the Nation, to concert and concoct schemes in oposition to the Government of the Nation, and tomentng excitement. He has demanded from Governor Yell, that all fugitives from justice, who have fled from the country across the line, be delivered over to the Cherokeesn
 Mir. Ross is welcome to wrts to General Taylor on any subject which may please his fancy If he fears that his tottering power cannot be sustained without appeals to the military, let him make them. l have no se- crets to keep from General Taylor, or Mir. Ross. My complaints, and the complaints of my people, who owned the present Cher I okee country, whilst MT. Ross was decrying it as graveyard, have been made public they were appeals to the United States for being dlspossessed of the country which had been guarantied te Us by solemn treaty. Our memorial has been published in your paper. have never seen an unbiased man, who has not owned that our claims for damages are just. ] cannot see why Mr. Ross should object to these demands. Certainly they do not interfere with the Government which he claims. After visiting Washington on this business, l returned to Fort Smith, with the intention of going home. 1 was there met l win the news, that my llte was threatened: ] that l was denounced as a traitor and that if l visited my home, should certainly be killed. A prison had been made near my plantation-and large guard of Mr. Ross friends placed ger persons accused of crime. Believing that my life was not safe, while such large guards and armed parties were assembled, l did not cross the line, but re- mained at Fort Smith
 l was here visited by my friends, who wished to hear the progress of our claim against the Government, for damages l in- formed them of my determination to submit the subject to Congress. This has been my whole offence. Before Heaven, l aver, l was never engaged in an unlawful or wicked conspiracy in my life. l never thought of shedding human blood, except in the defence of the country which Ross now occupies, against fercer savages, whom he too much feared to meet, until his countrymen were