Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-19
CHEROKEE NATION--MESSAGE OF THE PRINCI-
PAL CHIEF TO THE NATIONAL COUNCIL.

The Fayetteville Independent brings the annual
sage of JOHN Ross the principal Chief of the Cherokee
Nation, to the National Council 1t is concise we'll
written paper and would model to good many
Of officials He says that the year which has elapsed
has been of manifold blessings; the have
been propitious the ters of the soil and the foot
steps Of pesence and famine have been far removed
from their borders He audes in appropriate terms to
the demise of RICHARD TAYLOR Assistant Principal Chief
JOHN F. BooT member of the Executive Council, and
Capt JOHN BEScE, of the Sequoyah District lie audes
to the murder Of ANDREW ADAIR and his son GEo. w.
ADAIR and gives history of the circumstances
ed with it, and then urges further legislation for the sup
preston of mobs and unlawful assemblages. He says
that the late delegation to Washington failed in their
mission to sell to the Government the Neutral Land
called and he protests against claim set up be-
half of the Cherokees who remain in North Carolina to
certain nterestn heproceeds Of in easel should
be purchased by the United States This failure leaves
the finances of the Nation in embarrassed condition
One paragraph is of Importance enough to be quoted
entire:
You will have learned through the public prints that
there bill before Congress to establish
ritory be called the Territory of Nebraska and al
though that bill failed to become law, yet the recoec
ton Of the events which led to removal from the
Of the Mississippi river to this country and of the
fact that the boundaries indicated for the proposed Terri
tory Of Nebraska would if established, encroach the
lands Of the Cherokees, may well awaken in minds
serious apprehensons to future quiet and secur
y But holding do the repeated assurances Of the
Government and the stipuatons Of solemn treaties that
the lands Of the Cherokees shall be embraced with
in the limits of any State Territory without their
consent 1t cannot be supposed that any such encroach
ment on rights would be deliberately and intention
ally made by the Government l would suggest, how
ever the proprety Of entering solemn protest agains
such extension Of boundaries Of any State Terrific
ny would in any degree the rights guaran
tied to the Cherokee Nation by the Government Of the
United States"
Mr.. Ross proposes the establishment of permanent
agent at Washington speaks Of the temperance rcfor
nation having progressed gratifying extent and
in this connection refers to the extraordinary jurisdiction
assumed by the United States District Court held at
ivan Buren,, Arkansas for arragning Indians charged
with giving selling intoxicating liquors to other In
dams within the Indian country The jurisdiction thus
set up is not only Of finding but it strikes d
recty at the root Of the vital privilege of sefgovern
ment The right to regulate trade and intercourse
among the Indian tribes is vastly different from that of
regulating the intercourse of tribe within itself The
latter right have yielded by treaty, and there
should be some means adopted to test the and
leye citizens from the annoying vexations to which
they subjected by being seized by the United States
marshal taken from their homes exposed to the inqu
stions Of grand jury and to trial before the United
States Court for alleged offences Of the most trivial
character Education is meeting with increased favor
among the people-H Louis Republicans