Arkansas intelligencer., 1844-10-26
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
OF THE
OE13 {R ok la5a ADWO@AF TIE,
THE CHEROKEE NATION, PRoraIEroR.
WILL AM p. Ross Edito-

WILLIAM p. ROSS, Editor.
MERE will be issued at TAH-1E-ouAH, Cher.
okee Nation, about the middle of August
next, the first number of a weekly newspaper to
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. II will be
devoted to these ends, and to the defence of those
rights recognized belonging to them in Treaties,
legally made at different times with the United
States, and Of such measures as seem best caIcu.
lated to secure their peace and happiness, promote
their prosperity, and elevate their character as a
distinct community.
In commencing and sustaining public iourna
IN the Nation, its success must depend very mucbt
upon the kind feelings, beraIity and patronage ge OF
the citizens Of the United States. Among them
We are assured there exists generally desire that
the Indians should be dealt with upon Just and lib.
ernl principles, a lively sympathy in their che
qpered career, and deep interest in their char
acter, condition, and destiny. Ignorance of their
condition, opinions, and claims, has been to them
founlnin Of many wrongs; 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
pence and prospects, have been conceived and per.
sisted in to their accomplishment, with singular
pertinacity, by those from whom they have right
to expect and claim protection. 1t will, therefore.
be the aim of those having charge of the ADvo.
GATE, 10 enlighten public sentiment, as far as DOS.
sbe, as to the feelings, Wishes and proper expec.
tations Of the Cherokees. And while it is in,en-
ded to make the paper national in its tone and
character, abstaining from all parlizanship in the
International politics of the Nation, will neverlhe-
less be open to full but courteous discussions of
oSnr lIc nn tha t,>f -. 4
States, which touch upon or 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 in
vain. The history Of the Indian tribes, but mos,
especially, that of the Cherokees, is replele with
incidents at once striking and commanding
The mystery that shrouds their origin, their for.
mer yarhke character, their manly freedom, their
frm adherence TO their natural and pol,ica rights,
their fond attachment to their homes-the homes
Of their fore-fathers, their rude expulsion from
those homes their sudden transition from savope
10 Civilized life, their rapid improvement in educa
ton, agriculture and the domestic arts, their pres
snt condition, and the influence which, from their
location, friendship and intercourse, they mus,
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 liyely
interest in the breast Of the phianthropst, ava.
ken general thirst for more fama rity with them
and arouse "their protectors to the important.
but often apparently forgotten fact, that they have
no trihing duty to perform towards this people,
To those, then, who take any concern in whatever
relates to the Cherokee and neghboring Indians,
md who are desirous of being regularly and accu-
fol, oI.,o i,f,I ,tl,
them, The CHEROKEE ADVOCATE is recommended.
Our location. and the station we occupy relative
ly to the Creeks, Chickasaws, Choclaws, Osages
Senecas, Delawares 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.
Tho National Council having appointed the un-
dersgned Editor, the duties of that station will
ldcvolye entirely upon him, and the whole estab
ishnient be subject to his supervision.
TERMS.-The CHEROKEE ADVOCATE
will DO printed on an imperial sheet, with new
type, both English and Cherokee ,once every week.
al Three Dollars per annum, payable in adrance.
And to those subscribers, who read only the Cher.
okee language, at T,ro Dollars per annum in ad.
pance. -.
Advertising will bo done on the usual terms.
Communications directed, post paid, to the un.
dersigned, at Park Hill, Cherokee Nation, will
receive his prompt attention.
d WILLIAM p. ROSS.
Cherokee Nation, March lS44.-7-5m.