The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-02-16
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
nnl Relates Some History OF the Greeks and
CherclxeeS.
atlanta Constitution
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"a ..ruIluldICu wv" 80 ot
q .hov concern the Greeks and Chero-
80. and are Of romantic character, 1
:, constrained to record them. These
.uo,ribes are our Indians and make
~ o,,itc IA chapter in the history Of
Georgia. Alabama and East Tenne.-
q 90. North Georgia was especially
,be home Of the Cherokees, for their
q .h;efs lived near Rome as far back as
we have their history, and the Greeks,
!, Muscogcc5, as they arc more prop
4 or,v called, lived south Of the ITALIA
,oo.a river. These tribes are not to
i ho classcd with savages, for they were
e = higher grade, and but for the
= ..rccd of the white man would no
Il Joubt have continued to advance in
q civilization and reinforcement under
th. lead Of such chiefs as Ross, Ridge.
81 Boudinot and Mcintosh.
q Everybody is familiar with the
Fl story of PocahOntas.
s. Loucfellow wrote u beautiful story
4 ,hout Iliawatha, andWilliam Il. Rich
q arls penncd several pretty legends
AaLout the Indian girls of Tallulah
raIl,. and so I will pen the story of
#lonv Ridge and Boudinot as given to
,u,. This story was sent to me by
Ellen NJ. Gibbs, Of Crystal
h.ake. III. Her mother, Mrs. Taylor,
9wlo died in 1873, wrote this romantic
8 kctch in 1877, when she was IS years
age, and left it for her children,
a ho had so often heard her repeat it.
3By some strange coincidence I have
= ,ccn,ly received a letter from Mrs.
hirrinia Williams, of Bloomfield. Fla,
Ewing the ancestry of John Ross,
whose grandfather was a Scotch refu-
&c named Mcdonald. The writer,
Mrs. Williams. traces her lineage
to the same Mcdonald tree. Her
@hothcr was a daughter of William
Day, who married Agnes Mcdonald.
z AZ Williams would Hike TO learn
@norc about Ross and his parents and
hopes this publication may attract
Ahc attention Of some one who can in
form her.
81 And now comes a marked copy Of q
New York paper called Read
81 ne in which John Ross, a son Of the
7pid chief, appeals for preachers and
81 eachers to come out to the Cherokee
nation and help to educate and train
inc children in the Christian faith,
and especially to teach them in their
Sunday schools. This appeal is dated
december, 1897, and Mr.. Ross's ad-
Dress is No. 1O1 Gold street, New
ork.
q And here is the Vinita Leader, an
$ble paper, published in the nation,
and contains General Andrew Jack
on S letter to the Cherokee Chiefs,
S@8Britten IN 1885, and which urges and
Il ntrcats them TO accept the terms of
he treaty and move at once to the
4erritory assigned to them.
a And almost by the same mail comes
mother interesting and beautifully
&rittcn sketch Of the present condi-
Mion of the Muscogees Cor Creeks). It
AFas written by Mr.. w. W. Ramsay,
ri Marysville, Mo-, a gifted and schol-
Arly gentleman who is deeply interest
y d in Indian affairs. Other fragments
S9s,e come to me, and If I DC not
S3bridgc and compile and have them
published in your paper, much valua-
pie history Of these Indians will be
III Forever lost.
81 But to the story
In 1917 a foreign mission school
as established at Cornwall, Conn. 1t
fas a charity school for Indians main
u, though there were some white pu-
z7iis there and some betrayed their
awn expenses. Students from several
indian tribes were there to acquire
ID he Erglish language and a rudiment-
81 = 9ry..cducatios. Some white pupils al
% acquired the Indian language and
fent out as missionaries to the tribes.
BESIDES the Chippewas and Choctaws
nd %Chcrokees, I remember there
Fere two from the Sandwich Islands.
Mr.. Daggett was the first princi-
al of the school and Mr.. Andrews
q le last. Every May there was a pub-
Pc exhibition and tho Indian boys
poke on the stage, first in their ogn
language and then in ours. They
|erc genteel and graceful in their
8 fatory. They sang songs in their
ative tongue, allswaving their hands
n harmony with she music. They
'ere never allowed TO 60 beyond che
lnits or into peoples housss Without