Daily national Democrat., 1860-01-07

okee country, for this land in Kansas is only
small portion of the Cherokee Territory
The present Chief of the Cherokee Nation
who obtained his position by fraud and
usurpation, and who is one quarter Indian
land three quarter Scotchman-has been pre-
vailed upon by the Abolition missionaries in
the Cherokee country, as well as instigated
| by his own desire for handling a few hundred
thousand more dollars of Government money
paid to the Cherokees, to recommend to the
Cherokee Legislature (or Council as it is
called) the sale of the land in the proposed
boundaries of Kansas. BY trickery at the
elections. a convenient number of his tools
were elected to the Council, and they have
recently approved bill for the sale of the
Kansas land and sent on a delegation to
Washington to negotiate transfer of it by
solemn treaty with the United States Gov
ernment Against this transfer, it may well
be believed the people of Arkansas and of
southern Missouri vehemently protest. They
say it is only bringing Abolitionists from
Kansas TO their very doors, and converting
strip of territory hitherto dividing them
from the fanatics of Kansas into space for
an underground railroad over to which to run
oil their slaves. The hottest of the contro-
versy between the Kansians and the Arkan-
SLAMS seems to be carried on by the Kansas
'Fort Scott Democrat" and the Fayetteville
Arkansian," paper of very large circulation
published at Fayetteville Washington county.
Arkansas, edited jointly by Cherokee and
a native Of Arkansas The Fort Scott Dem
ocrat, which is evidently strongly Free Soil
In Its tendencies, accuses the "Arkansian" OF
being opposed to the sale of the land in oues-
tion because one of its editors is a Cherokee,
and he prefers to have it retained within tn
limits of the proposed State sought to b
formed out of the Cherokee Territory. T
this the "Arkansian" replies that the obiec
which it most seeks to effect is to prevent
slave territory from falling into the hands ot
Abolitionists. If any of the Cherokee Ter
ritory must pass from the hands of the Cher.
okees, it prefers that such territory should
be slave and not free. Its feelings on this
head may be judged by the following ex-
tracts from reply of the Cherokee editor to
one of the articles of the Fort Scott Demo
crat:
''The handwriting is plain and he that
runs may read" the plan eyinced and avow.
ed to overthrow slavery, not only on the
Cherokee soil within the so called boundaries
of Kansas but in the Cherokee and Creek
and Choctaw Territories, as well as in Arkan.
sas itself The declaration of war has been
| put forth, and determined effort TO conuuer
our soil is apparent and threatened. There
| IS TO be no mystery, no secrecy al out it
No indeed the Interpretation of this Chero.
kee article is to be found in the deeds done of
late at Harpers Ferry, and the threat recent
" disclosed that the Arkansas frontier was
to be point of attack. Yes we here in
| remote Arkansas, were to be invaded. our
slaves were to be armed, excited and aroused
to insurrection; our hearthstones were to be
reddened by the blood of negro rebellion.
and our wives, sisters, daughters and mothers
were to be butchered by the abolition horde
who were to be armed with "long poles poin
ted with Bowie knives"
Ten years since who would have believed
the wilds of Kansas, of the Neutral Land.
would be thronged with, settled and lorded
over by negro stealers. But there is the
stubborn fact. Ten years hence may witness
a dozen Instructions and states of perfect
Insecurity to life and property, unless we
awake now to our danger, and at once, TO dan
take upon ourselves not only defensive but
offensive warfare Our lives, our peace, our
honor, our property are in jeopardy. The
oraho oil the incendiary may even now be
burning which is to fire our quiet homes.
There are suspicious men in this country
in this county, in this town Thev. rest as
sured, belong secretly to the same "organiza.
tion" which shed blood at Harpers Ferry
which threatens to do so on the Arkansas
lrontler which has laid a regular and svs-
temaue plot to raise the negroes on our pian.
Cae.ohs and farms; which instituted a "Pro-
'isIonal government with elected officers
"nu Whieh mas sworn unendng, uncomnro-
hlsli'g war and death to slavery ana H.,
are numbered among those who "a ~
IN that 'irrepressble conflict" aeo;,.t 's,'' s.s
South and her sacred institutions. Ave ~ bo sne
are such men among us, and they are marLed
Let them take heedi Here they will 6nd
different spirits from the cravens of Kansas. !"
The Fort Scott Democrat having intimated
that the white settlers of Kansas, who had
located on the Cherokee soil above alluded
to, and known as the Neutral Land. had
rights O which were bound to be respected.
DC, the Cherokee editor goes on to say:
"We should like to know bv what right
these "six hundred white" interlopers in The
Neutral Land claim to be heard as to its sale ?
Where did they get any right to be so heard I?
Who authorized them to steal upon the
premises of the Cherokee, violently take
possession and then demand a hearing as to
the sale thereof2 We opine that robbers and
thieves will everywhere receive the same
treatment "Of what use are these lands to
the Cherokees p One great use they have
for these lands" and that is the barrier
they afford against cowardly scoundrels and
thieves who, with whining cant and sympa-
thy for the "down-trodden slave" in their
mouths. nevertheless do not scrupIe to trample
upon the rights of the poor Indian !" such
men as Montgomery, Baine, johnson. Craw-
ford, Ned. Smith, Bull, Jones Il Co.. cowards
one and al.
Then when lawless intruders attemnt 70
loEce settlement uDon their Ian1, .L IN