Arkansas intelligencer., 1845-07-19
For the arkansas Intclh'gencer
NrwHopE, CHocTAw NATION, July |, ls45,

NEWHnPE, CHoCTAW NAFioN' jury iSfo'
Msssrs Ed,iors:--Tn your paper of the i4ih June
short account Of the characters OF the Indians along
he frontier has ppea red written by some person I'M
known to us In connection with this. the writer has
something's also respecting the characters oil .ne
educated Indian the lahors OF The M!sshhsFcs the
white men married among them, all oil when needs
reply from rs. ,..,r
Tbs writer has broadly assumed grounds TO hlmseh'
upon which. we II ink, very few perhaps won ven
tnre so far as 10 undertake to sander and stgmaze
poor and harmless people, wh" are sl'uenns WI" ua
Their might to rise in the scale of improvement. ne
has acted very un fair towards do not IKE this
Kind of ,reaiment-we cannot endure tive must
speak up for We jealous Of our national eharac
Ter as the people Of the United States
He has thought best to say to the word tha' "'
good has heep obtained b, the education, which mas
been given to hundreds Of Indian children lie ouent
o., hore rcc,Ilccted that the days of Jefferson have
pa ssed bv-here is use to try !" become nus
for il has been fully proven TO the world that an nu'
. T., o,p be nd has been educated and civilized. when
properly taught and brought up under the influence
the go~p" truth. Finding that 1t was education a"u
knowIrdre which made the people OF the uhteo o'a'
so prosprrous and happy. and being thought impor
,p, Il, initiate them we ha We been paving no small al
,ention to the education of our children. We begin
already the advantages derived from ~, o"' Po
ple are rapidly improving. We are gradually 'hr""
nr off the sha les which bound US hard down to the
nors,itous and savage customs of our foretathers'
and now instead of government controlled ny war
-nropheis conf urers, and Indian doctors. VIC ha'e'
through tn" mercy Of Almighty God rs a'"nru reg
nlar form OF republican government. and our avs are
written in both the English and Indian languages-
Now. bv means of education which we have given to
our hdren, we have effected thus nnch' Ahu' Mr.
writer, do You say, that education has done US no
good at uli Folks that know us better VIII not BE-
EEaye Won Yes | can tell you more concerning what
ood ,duc ,rnn has already done us We have church-
es interesting meeting, good peach'"gs IN our cpu'
,r, "a they have among you we have ais" honrlsh
ir, sabbath schooIs-mos,Iy taught by the natives
- - or which have been established by The special
of the Legislative Council of the natives,
besides other higher order of schools Tor male ana le
',Ie ,aught in different parts of the Nation Wore
we have also ell regulated temperance societies
among us, with many thousand members. we have
;e5 "A, this state OF Things through the 'nstrnmen'
.ii, nt education aud of the gospel And do you
,rv IA opgince people that education has been o, no
wv wv ,'nsI " Law aside your Prairie Log Book There
nsc now ior any one to try 10 inform The public
.o ". have among us, men OF truth ana character
or b,yb standing some ol them are "lfcers oi the
anu % Government who will testify 10 the truth
un ,nSa, We ,ay You must be some careless English
" ,b,, knew SO little about u.s. who has almost run
MA T.. se and see :he taf= lees and ;ho gay rapp't,
,n tho Western Prairies and to--make Log BOOK