The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1868-11-10
CHEROKEE NATION.
Papers and Speeches.

bright. | welcome the pleasant faces OF
the Press and the Herald However
they are angels, for their visits are also
cratic. A friend in Springfield, Mo.
sends ME the Leader; while once and
again at my tent entertain an angel un-
awarcs in the shape Of some stray me
tropolitsn journal. The Gazette is a lost
Pleiad. miss it, presence sorely, grow
lonesome in this wilderness from the ALL
scnce Of mine ancient familiar friend II
was long one Of my Penates and my
fathers before me And that great sun
the tipped, is in total eclipse. ] cannot
even discern its disk Occasionally !
meet an extract from its pages Some
extracts are more potent than bodies
from whence they were taken. Not so
with the Appears; one wants the whole
1t is still in harness and doing valiant
service, | hear, though no longer fighting
with pike. am in paperless desert
But as under other ills misfortune heaps
on me, have learned to be patient.
All, how well the Southern man has
learned this word in all its mortal mean
ing. How calm and stll and enduring
the South. How wonderful is her heroic
virtue. Noble, sublime, to the whole
world, and none but a Radical churl re-
fuses to acknowledge it. Under all her
suticrings, amid all the dark cnormities
of the oppression and tyranny now en-
deavoring to crush her, to-day she stands
more glorious and proud than in hel
golden days of palms, laurel and bay
Though the holly and yew are her pres
ent symbols, though chaplct of thorn'
be now her crown and her purple robe>
replaced with Grape, yet the gloria aboy,
her head shines more brightly still, while
her name is hallowed of mankind.
On Tuesday, October Goth, at tn,
School House on Honey Creek, Delaware
District, Cherokee Nation, by previous
appointment made at the request of tn
Fullbloods of this District, Maj. Boudi
not delivered an impressive talk to them
Although the weather was inclement, un
intermitting cold rain falling the da,
long, the house was full and the audienc
attentive and interested.
Major b. reviewed the action of tn
Cherokee Delegates at Washington, an,
presented synopsis of the new, fatefu
and pending treaty. He pictured tn
present quiet, peaceful and reposing stat
of the Cherokees, who, after the blac
disasters Of the huge war, and the subse
quent wrangling and dissension anon
themselves begotten by bad, designin
men, now happily laid, had, as one man
buried their ancient, fierce and bite
hates and feuds, and now instead of b,
ing divided and urVVu-ocehug were I
peace one win another and once more
united people This, he told them, wa
a good omen, an augury of new era c
prosperity and happiness. Unlike thei
distressed neighbors,t the adjoining Soutl
ern States, they were free from the cruz
expressions and tyranny and fraud
which desolated the land Of those, thci
white brethren Here were no oppres
sive laws, impoverishing taxation, no so
diers stationed all over their country {
preserve the peace, or mayhap to execut
the mandates of tyrants, as is the melar
cholly case in these States, Here Their
were no wrangling of parties, no horri
tales of barbarities, no feuds, frauds, col
ruption and ISLANDERS to pull them dow
waste their lands and means, and destro
their people such as they could hear an
see across the border. He exhorted ther
to continue united, tranquil and quiet, AN
never go back to those dark days whc
blood ran in their land and hostile pa,
ties threatened to annihiIate their peopl,
They had begun to taste of the fruits G
union and peace and would reap richie
harvests in the coming time He counsele
them to industry, soberness and enter
prise to wake up and create for them
selves in their beautiful land more beau
tlful homes to open and till large fields
raise stock, build houses, mills, factories
and become, as they easily could, a ricl
people. He spoke, too, Of the great val
ue of education and cultivated society
and pointed out how they, with theirmu
nificent national funds, could secure thes
inestimable interests. They were within
their reach
He also spoke Of the great privilege:
in legal sense, this new treaty would give
them, and the proposed Great Council o
the five Nations when organized. HI
showed them in simple language what
they had never understood before, thai
this new treaty and Grand Council would
lift very many grievious burdens now i'm
posed upon them by the United States
District Court, that they would place {
United States District,an A ct of congress