Arkansas intelligencer. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1842-1859, 1844-05-18

y ter, until next week. And as it Is q bitter Dor
e ton, designed for Geni Byra's especial good, j
}. may operate best by being administered in. "bro
: ken Doses" Our readers will please keep all tn
chapters, as there will 10 several Of them, so a
: read them all in connection.
!; In justice to the Democratic party, to whose
q true interest and honor we are but doing our du
ty in ma king this exposition, we hope all Demo
cratic papers in this state. or who circulate in it
will republish what we write on this subject.
> To b continued nert ,oeek.
We extract, with pleasure, the subjoined arti
Gle upon the Cherokee Alphabet, taken from a pa
} per of the Democratic Review, which was writ.
ten by gentleman who "spent upwards Of two
years among the Cherokees, Creeks, and Semi.
noles." The Cherokee tribe presents to view
the singular spectacle of being the only people, in
an interval of three thousand years, who have
scorked out for themselves written language.
Theirs is unique tongue not merely an Indian d.
alectic differences, but one analogous to no other
upon earth, one extremely difficult to articulate
and acquire by foreigners.
The writer remarks @
y" "A second Cadmus has arisen in the perssn of
an uneducated Cherokee, ignorant OF every Ian.
Invented system Of stalking Cherokee upon
paper, is Se-bua-yah. or George Guess and as
we had the pleasure, during the removal of that
tribe ~css Of the Mi--i-sppi,ir 1898. to become
acquainted with a son of this Cadmus the Second,
who was in the public seryics l;---s.hiiiiu1s
~s 70 % 81 unable 70 ''a'e c,rcum.
xlnces which gave rise to this important discov-
~, ~ repeatedly related to US by the son. The
thoughts Of Guess were first directed into this !,
.hannel by observing his nephew, who had just
eturned from disaant school, spelling some
words, whereupon DO Immediately exclaimed that
IL could effect the same in his vernacaar tongue
Building hut ina retired spot, and thus secluding
,imself in great measure from his people, he
devoted himself exclusively to this great labor.
His fsllow-countrymen. supsrssitious by 'educa-
ion, grew suspicious Of his object. as they viewed
,im 10 his solitary study surrounded by his cab
,list;c spures. Believing that he was engaged 10
No art Of conjuration, peradventute in concoct'
'Soms diabolical plan to blow up the nation,
'">S puiace succeeded in drawing him from his
Sansgs, when they burned up the cabia' hero
. s.,pa md all. But our secosA Cadmus re-
800 supposed black-art; and he was soon
-. a,.s,es, to snhbi. TO his people 90. Of
:. &C., 80. ,pders Of modern times. Thus
naV'ne' e.'er ." ears labor. completed his sys-
.e'n' a"e ,n'" u daughter in the significa-
aon Oh une en.r used, he invited his old
friends, the head men w.. rrior. Of the nation.
to assemble At his house ,;,n... the r..ult.
Having explained to themN ,,;nc;n,.. ~ ~.
system, he then wrote down wlfk =. ,,,o,es,.
cd BY any the visitors; and no calling IN ri.
daughter she read it of unhesi.atinsA ,o he ION.
der-stricken assembly. His old frien,s.s ,,f,or
repeating this several times 70 g,iard again. ~.
i position, were seized with ningssd fsslio6 xs|
terror and anna cement. One caIled him !. 1tiu.
gasta, lGod. or very great man y anosh,s,
4 g Unantaha, (God Almighty y and = Add,
+" Agagheha, Jesus Christ.)
i Like Pallas from the brain of love, the svstsn,
lsprang at once before tho world complete in all
its parts. A newspaper in the Cherokee Language
was soon published, and the greater portion Of the
New Testament and Watts Hymns was transla-
ted and printed aud had NOT the Georgians, in
a spirit Of Vandalism, destroyed their printing
establishment, the whole Bible might for years
4 past have been read in the Cherokee tongue.
The elements Of this written language consist
Of eighty.6vs characters, six of which represent
vowels cpd the rest.yllables. The language i
not, like the ancient Egyptian. idiosrapAie, that
is. conveying ideas 70 the mind BY pictures and
lressmblances, or metaphorical figures; NOR is NJ
like the Chinese, lsrisvspkic, that is rspresenefg
the words ofthe language; but it consists of ,6w-
Gle and syllables, tho various sombinatig6s ef
which have been found to embrat,s every FORD 10
fthe tongue. For native to lsarn t9fead re,
'tquires no longer period, than the zig requisite
% become acquainted with the chizetsrs. The
j word CtIerokee. feF example, prs3Sanced BY ths
naxsvss Tss1oge;ci rssssntsd ~ three charas-
A - squiyalsas . ~ = andS This may ~
sepnsilered syzab5s aiplat = 1870
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