Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-06-27
FROM THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY.

We received by the last mail from the West two
communications from the Cherokee country, both
Of nature to satisfy of at least thus much that
the state of affairs in that country is at this time
most critical, and demands from Congress much
more serious consideration than most of the Mem
bers are in the habit of bestowing upon Indian af-
fairs generally. One of these communications
being accompanied by the name of the writer,
and free from personality, we publish it, sub
joined. In doing so, we mean to intimate no opin-
ION OF our own, for we have no personal know
ledge of the matter to which it relates we give the
letter as it stands, without changing word of it,
on the authority Of the respectable gentleman from
whom receive it.
The other letter, unaccompanied by the name of
the writer, comes to us under the signature Of
/" JUSTICE" with an intimation that the writer is an
Officer of the Army, WHO'S responsible, and whose
name can be had if desired by US. Without re-
sponsible name, we could not certainly publish any
letter concerning things of which we have so little
knowledge; and, even with name, we should hest
tate long before we published letter containing
charges against individuals grave as those which
the writer makes. There are one or two passages
of his letter. however, which we copy in the hope
of rousing the attention of Congress to the necessi-
ty of close investigation of this subject before def
nitive action upon it:
"Every road side for miles around Evansville is white
with human bones beached by every days sun, and
whose lives have been taken by :, aside
from those who had the fortune TO be Inferred During this
Spring. since those who disposed commenced their
crops not less than innocent Cherokees have fallen VIC
Tins whilst work in their confels and when suspecng
any thing but that foul murderer had his rifle eveed just
ready pull trigger and end his existence In this way have
they dragged from their fields which has caused SO
much fear to be entertained that of the fields been
deserted where there is the least probability of their frequent
ing"
he troops here for their special protection leave
their camps Alone but in bodies and well armed lest they
attacked"
Letter to The Editors, above referred to, as being
accompanied by a responsible name:
CsERoKKE NATION, MAY "a, 1916.
Amid the excitement of the Mexican war; the nation
not forget the Indians border The unse acts of the
Government in managing the affairs of the Cherokees in
times past have been productive of evil 1t is pro-
posed to mend matters by dividing the naton-drawng line
of demarcaon between the parties. Divide the Democratic
and Wing parties of the United States Let the Govern
citizens (hey mostly whites and half Breeds and the
matter will be settled, if the Government will put the
Indians Agent Commissioner for year two
Of emence The evil does not lie in the Indians, but
in Government, which has msmanaged for them Let
the nation look to it. Something must be done, and that
speedily for there wdness growing among these people
which will seek vent in resor 20 The knife is
in daily use the sabber is lord Of the country peaceable
Indians shot down in the fields by and
sweabe foe The two parties do not communicate; both
constantly excited by false reports That desperation should
follow such state of things is not to be wondered at Let
not the Administration lay the acng JUNCTION to their souls
that there guile the side they favor There
hung villains both Sides Rascaty fact rules the land,
and honesty looks fear and trembling not knowing when
the time may for its humiliation.
Let the Government, ITepeat buy off the indictments and
make peace with the rest by using proper peacemaker
but do not hatch cocace egg which shall produce like the
treaty Of 1885, If the Cherokee Nation is divided the
will be made Immediately have the Chckasaws separated
from the Choctaws Better consolidate the Indians than
divide them. SHAWANOE.