The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-10-09
THE GEORGIA HUM0RIST
ERRORS IN STORY or MISSIONARY BUT.
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Some Interesting dud Ancient 0eorgia HIS +
tory---Bartow Sage Tolls Of the Trouble C
Experienced in Getting Indians to Leave
the State.
That is a pretty and pathetic story
that nv Young friend Fred Govan
wrote about the missionary, DIR. But
Ter. and his wife. No doubt but tnat
{ is founded on fact, and he pronaoiy
rot his data from some very old man
Who still lives near Coosaville, q little
villape twelve miles below Rome.
was interested in the story. because
when I was a lad that same DR.. Butler
was imprisoned in the county JAIL o.
Lawrenceville, where my father lived:
Another missionary, by the name OF
Worcester, was imprisoned with nim'
and their offense was their refusal 10
take the oath of allegiance to the state
,f Georgia or otherwise to leave the
Cherokee nation. They were suspected
Of using their influence to render the
indians dissatisfied with the treaty
that required them to go west. John
Howard Payne, the author OF "Home,
Sweet Home" ives also suspect, and
was arrested and taken to Mllied9e-
Vile to be examined. Those were hot
times in Georgia, especially north
Georgia. for Gwinnett was a border
county. and we children could almost
see Indians squatted among the chin
nuapin bushes or behind the trees on
ihe road to the mill. We knew they
were lust over the Chattahoochee river,
and that some white people over there
had been murdered by them. Indians
were as much terror to US as ghosts
, and runaway negroes. The new gran
.. tie Jail had just been completed, and
! nine Indians we're the first prisoners.
They oil escaped within week. They
took ND a stone in the floor and bur-
rowed out like moles or rabbits.
8 never heard until Govan wrote II
that Butler was dragged to Milledge-
vile with rope around his neck, mol
am prepared to believe that much o.
> the story. He's and Worcester were
: arrested at New Echota lin Gordon
! county) and brought mounted to Law
: renceyille and tried before Judg
- CLAYTON, who was Mrs. Henry Grady
- Grandfather, q learned, humane ant
: incorruptible Judge. They had tn
=, hest of local counsel, Elisha Chester
= also a native of Connecticut, and the
ID had the renowned William Writ as q
adviser, and they had the president
John Quincy Adams, on their sld'
ct. John Marshal, the chief justice OF th
ed sunreme court, issued his mandarin
yn to compel Judge Clayton to release Il
ng prisoners, but he refused, and COLI
he ion seemed inevitable between II
IN limited States and the state of Georgi
he T think that Mr.. Govan's informant
q mistaken, for Butler had lots OF frlen
IN powerful friends--and John hos
lis the chief of the Cherokees, was bac
Mt, ING him. Doubtless he was q go
on. man. but he was stubborn and fana
his cal. and declared he owed no al
ons glance except to tie American boa
me- Of foreign missions, and TO God-tl
in it was his duty to teach Christian
and to the Indians, and he would contln
The to do SO.
,ue, Both these men were convicted q
and sentenced to the penitentiary for Il
and wears. When they arrived at N
Of ledgeville Governor Lumpkin kim
rest advised them to take the oath or ag
the to leave the state, and if they wo'
rim do either he would at once pare
King them. They refused and wrote TO
Navy hoard of missions for advice. L
avail hoard commended their refusal
t be again urged Writ and Sergeant to res
TO the supreme court. But these
AIRED nent lawyers advised an acceptanc
two Governor Lumpkin's offer. 30 I
stt is accented and were pardoned-and
We father always said they returne
Town Connecticut. He knew them and
9 the many conversations with them,
tates gave them good advice, for he,
play was New England man. And b
am surprised to learn from MI.
van that Butler returned to his
=. :, sionary work and died near Coosa
Tvs l.s.u " and was buried by the side OF his
y. ~ In fact, never knew before tina
had n wife; but, of course, the ms
W. t;on on her tombstone settles
tad in Mr.. Govan gives Butler the Ohri
o,Irad name of ElOneZ, Dut tue ioooi"o -
"o state archives show his name
' = 'os himself signed it to be ElizuD'
rriage 1t is, however, an interesting
It'll the pathetic story and very great
human figured in it, both state and nati
In the The conflicts between the state
lstoms the Cherokees and the United ;
ess as continued for II years and ended
Of my with the exodus OF 1888. %
walks treaties were made-made only
Ipe; az broken. Ross and Ridge, the
as the chiefs, could never agree upon
he Ian and they had their followers; :,
j who. Georgia ceded Alabama and \
mas her sippi to the United States in lSO
ompafs consideration was that the I
sand States should extinguish the In
of all title and remove them beyon
red and Mississippi river. The federal
nd saw arnment was SO slow in trying
at least this that after waiting and urgir
ais bel" sntreatlng for 20 years, the sta
impatient and demanded action
;. Ross party declared they would
urrenoe a. all. but finally agreed to ced
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