Arkansas intelligencer., 1844-10-05
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THE CHEROKEE NATION, PRorxIEroa.

THE CHEROKEE NATION, PRoPRIEroR
WILLIAM p. ROSS, Editor.
THERE will be issued at TAH-IE-qUAH, Cher
- okee Nation, about tho middle of August
next, the first number of a weekly newspaper 10
be called the CHEROKEE ADVOCATE.
. The object Of the Council of the Nation. in
providing for the publication Of the CHERoKEE AD.
vocATE, is the physical, moral and intellectual
Improvement OF the Cherokee people. /, will be
devoted to these ends, and to the defence of those
rights recognized as belonging to them in Treaties,
legally made at different times with the United
States, and OF such measures seem best caIcu-
lated to secure their peace and happiness, promote
their prosperity, and elevate their character as
distlnct community.
In commencing and sustaining public journal
IN the Nation, its success must depend very much
upon the kind feelings, liberaty and patronage of
tne citizens OF the United States. Among them
we are assured there exists generally desire that
The lEtians should be dealt with upon lust and lib.
eral principles, a lively sympathy in their che
quered career. and deep interest in their char
acter, condition, and destiny. Ignorance of their
condition, opinions, and claims, has been to them
fountain of many wrongs; a fountain from which
they have been forced to drink many bitter
draughts. From this cause, measures of policy in
themselves unjust, and highly destructive to their
peace and prospects, have been conceived and per-
sisted IN to their accomplishment, with singular
pertnaclty, by those from whom they have right
70 expect and claim protection. 1t will therefore,
DO the aim of those having charge of the Apvo.
CATE, TO enghten public sentiment, as far as DOS.
slole as to the feelings wishes, and proper expec-
tations Of the Cherokees. And while it is in,en-
ded to make the paper nat iondi in It's tone ana
character, abstanng from all partizanship in the
international politics of the Nation, will neyerhe-
hut
any measures of policy on the part of the United
States, which touch upon affect the rights and
interests, not only Of the Cherokees, but also OF
their red brethren.
In making an appeal to the citizens of the Uni.
ted States for their friendly aid in the present un.
dertaking, we feel sanguine that it will not be n
vain. The history of the Indian tribes, but mos,
especially, that Of the Cherokees, is reple,e with
incidents at once striking and commanding
The mystery that shrouds their origin, their for.
mer Varike character, their manly freedom, their
hrm adherence 10 their natural and poli,ica rights
their fond attachment TO their homes-the homes
OF their fore-fathers, their rude expulsion from
those homes. their sudden transition from sa vape
TO civilized life, their rapid improvement in educa
ton, agriculture and The domestic arts their pres
ent condition, and the influence which, from their
location, friendship and intercourse, they must
and will exert over the great Indian population
extending north and south along the whole wes-
tern border of the United States. and back to the
Rocky Mountains, cannot fail to enkindle n lively
interest in the breast of the philanthropst, ava
ken general thirst for familiarity with them
and arouse 'ther protectors 10 The important,
but often apparently forgotten fact, that they have
no trfng duty to perform towards this people,
To those, then, who take any concern in whatever
relates to the Cherokee and neighborng Indians
and who arc deslrous of being regularly and accu-
-rately made acquainted with passing events among
them, the CHEROKEE ADVOCATE is recommentieo
Our location, and the station we occupy relative.
Iyto the Creeks, Chickasaws, Choc,aws, Osages
Senecas, Deawares and other Indians, are such
as will enable US at all times to furnish the rea-
ders of the paper with the latest and most correct
border news.
Nothing personal or sectarian will be admitted
into the columns of the paper.
The National Council having appointed the un.
dersigned Editor, the duties of that station will
idevolve entirely upon him, and the whole estab
ishment be subject to his supervision.
TERMS.-The CHEROKEE ADVOCATE
will be printed on an imperial sheet, with new
type. both English and Cherokee, once every week,
at Three Dollars per annum, payable in adrauce.
And to those subscribers, who read only the Cher
okee language, at Tiro Dollars per annum in ad.
odnce.
Advertising will be done on the usual TERMS
Communications directed, post paid, to the un.
dersigned, at Park Hill, Cherokee Nation, will
receive his prompt attention.
WILLIAM P. ROSS.
Cherokee Nation, March ls44.-7.6m.
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