INDIANS VISIT
Three Indians of the Cherokee nation have lately paid us a visit. They talk the English language feasibly well and the articulation is e(?)pre being entirely unconnected with any other; they say that they have been very many moons coming from West Tennessee, their place of residence.
Their appearance involuntarily raises the mind with sentiments we cannot be repulsed; whilst the little children, who have read the history of the massacre of our forefathers shrank from their terror-inspired appearance, the hand of the wise mature age was extended to them in the ardor of friendship. The recollection that they are freedom’s sons, that the soil which yields to us plenty and happiness was once theirs, that they were divested of it without the least shadow of right, and compelled to flee from the tyrant while man’s murdering hands, thrills our breasts with veneration and philanthropy hospitality.
Contributed by, Nancy Piper, The Lycoming Gazette (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) January 18 1823 Page 1 |
