The whole art ok Government consists in the art of rcing honest. Jefferson. STRO UDSBURG. MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1841. No' 20. VOL. 2. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY TltEOBOKE SCH-K. ,ri,rr. m , ,r -num m advance Tio dolliirf TERMS.-Two dollars per mur bef(jre Qf and a quarter, half yearlu-Ba h receive their ihe year, Two dollars and a a l b thepropne j.apcrs bj -a earner. or suge ar ' No ?apeCdScUnirf until all arrearages are paid, cr.cept 'lrt nC 5Uare (SiXtCCn linCS) ?nnrtrf?hB vceksfor one dollar . twenty-five cents i r eww EubscqC"t insertion ; larger ones in proportion. A nr .Eonut will be made to yearly advertisers. letters addressed to the Editor must bepostpaid. POETRY. My Country's Flag. The following spirited lines are from the ' Lo well Offering," and were written by a 'Factory Girl." My Country's Flag! I love to gaze Upon thee, bathed in Freedom's light! I love the very breeze that plays Among the folds on yonder height. Thy Stars and Stripes! Hove them well For all the high:born truths they tell They o'er my spirit cast a spell, That seems by angel-impulse given It savors less of earth than heaven. My Country's Flag? I love to think Of thee as of a heaven-born thing. And with thy every thought to link A holier name than prince or king. The Christian's God it was, who gave The hand to rear thee, strength to save, And made thy champions bold and brave, To lift the Stars and Stripes on high, And tell thy freedom to the sky! My Country's Flag! a sight of thee, Shall waken livelier gratitude And many a youthful heart shall see. That to be great is to be good. That noble being all must love, Who, rising in grandeur far above. Meanwhile was genlle as the dove And wrapt around his towering mind. The cords that bound him to mankind. My Country's Flag! wave on, wave on, 'Till aristocracy shall cease, And every eye shall greet the dawn Of liberty the morn of peace! 'Till every being on our soil Shall eat the free reward of toil, And every chain, and serpent coil, Beforo thy silken folds shall flee, And God's own image stand forth free! ADDSES On the Present Condition and Prospects of the Aboriginal inhabitants of North America, with particular reference to the Seneca nation. By M. B. Pierce, a Chief of the Seneca nation, and a member of Dartmouth College. (concluded.) With regard to mode of living tables, chairs ! agree upon, and bedsteads and cooking apparatus have gen- "But the land company have the right of pur rally been purchased of the whites or manu- chase," it is said granted; but they have not iactured in imitation of them, and they are used the right, nor, we trust in God, the power, to io a neater or less extent in almost everv fam- i force us to accept of their offers. And when lv. "The habit of taking regular meals is gain-; that company finds that a whistle or a rattle, or mr m-min.l. and the nrovision is luxurious. In ! one dollar or two per acre, will not induce us to the care of the sick thevare more attentive and 1 part with our lands, is it not in the nature of judicious, and rely loss' on notions and quacke-i hmgs that they should offer better and more1 'rv; thev employ Jkiilful physicians, and use ihe I attractive terms? If they could not make forty medicine with less prejudice, and a great deal ! nine dollars on an acre of land, I know no rea more confidence. j son wny ,nftV would fail of trying to make for- Other evidences of improvement we hare in t ty-five, or thirty, or ten. So I see no obstacle ihe increase of industry, and a consequent ad-jlr selling, when, and at such reasonable vance in dress, furniture, and all the comforts I prices as we may wish, in lhe fact that the land and conveniences of civilized life. The fields i company have the right of purchase: nor do I of the Indians have never been kept in so good see any thing extortionate in us, in an unwilling order, and managed with so much industry, as ! ness to part with our soil on the terms offered for the few ears past. At nublic meetings and I "or eVR, thc desire, if our lands are sold, of other large assemblies, the Indians appear com - fortably and decently, and some of them richly I'neir value. clad. The population is increasing gradually, J But the point of chief importance is shall we except when visited with epidemics. The in- j 00 better off? If our object was to return to the crease of general information is visible; there manners and pursuits of life which character are many of them who keep themselves well j iseil our ancestors, and we could bo put in a safe, 'informed of what is going on in the country; sev- j unmolested and durable possession of a wilder ral Tiewsnaners have been taken from the cities ne of Cime, whose streams abound in fish, we .i)l w asningion, u. v., i iiuauuipuui, iuiv xuih. and other cities in the Unjon, and two or three copies of the Genesee Fanner. Some young men have a choice selection of books and libra ries. All these improvements are advancing at a rapid rate, except when they are distracted with cares and anxieties. 1 rWw. . r. . T .3 :. y,v 1 - . t-v ft .1 iu vr Tr-..i. I . 111 View Ol incse Old, 1 uuuiu iv iiuiiBi;r.t cy so say say wiing lamier, a " u quuxuon, whether or not the undertaking is feK-iMt- to '-bring tiu' SeMocsK tip to tho standard which . i ...i. . ... ..: sh 3.11 entithi them lo be .called civilized and Christianized. The only question which 1 shall now con--sidcr, included in lhe subject I am treating, h, Jiota can this undertaking be carried into ope ration most advantageously for securing its ui ilimate object? .Can it be by remaining where we now arc local ed or by selling ourJauds and removing o theafore-mentioned "lerra .incognita?" The right and possession of our lands is undisputed so with us ii i.s a question appealing directly to our i:itcre.st; and how stauds4Sie matter in re- lation to that? Onr lands are as fertile, and as well situated for agricultural pursuits, as any we shall get by a removal. The graves of our fathers and mothers and kin are here, and about them still cling our affections and memories. Here is the theatre on which our tribe has thus far acted its parts in the drama of its existence, and about it are wreathed the associations which ever bind the human affections to the soil, whereon one's nation, and kindred, and self, have arisen and acted. We are here situated in the midst of facilities for physical, intellec tual and moral improvement: ive are in the midst of the enlightened; we see their ways and their works, and can thus profit by their example. We can avail ourselves of their implements and wares and merchandise, and once having learn ed the convenience of using them, we shall be led to deem them indispensable; we here are more in the way of instruction from teachers, having greater facilities for getting up and sus taining schools, and as we, in the progress of our improvement, may come to feel the want and the usefulness of books and prints, so we shall be able readily and cheaply to get what ever we may choose. In this view of facts, surely there is no inducement for removing. But let us look at the other side of the ques tion. In the first place, the white man wants our land; in the next place, it is said that the offer for it is liberal; in the next place, that we i shall be belter off to remore from the vicinity of the whites, and stile in the neighbourhood of our fellow red men, where the woods flock with game, and the streams abound with fishes. These are the reasons offered and urged in fa vour of our removal. Let us consider each of these reasons a little in detail. The fact that the whites want our i land imposes no obligation on us to sell it, nor does it hold forth an inducement to do so, unless I it leads them to offer a price equal its value to j us. We neither know nor feel any debt of grat ' nude which we owe to them, in consequence of ' their "loving kindness or tender mercies" to ; wards us, that should cause us to make a sacri fice of our property or our interest to their wont ed avarice, which, like the mother of the horse j leech, cries give, give, and is never sated. And is the offer liberal? Of that who but ourselves are to be the final judges? If we do not deem one or two dollars an acre liberal for the land, which will to the white man's pocket bring fifteen to fifty, I dont't know that we can be held heinously criminal for our opinion. It is well known that those who are anxious to purchase our reservations, calculate safely on fifteen dollars the acre for the poorest, and by gradation up to fifty and more, for the other qualities. By what mode of calculation or rule of judgment is one or two dollars a liberal oner to us, when many times that sum would be on ly fair to the avarice of the land speculator? Since in us is vested a perfect title to the land, I know not why we may not, when we wish, dispose of it at such prices as we may see fit to ' putting into our own pockets a due portion of , . I I. .! I ,1 . 1 .1 . t luigm on netier on; ouunougn mat were ourou ject, 1 deny that we could possess such a terri tory this side of thc shores of the Pacific, with safety, free of molestation, and in perpetuity. " Westward the star of empire takes its way," and whenever that empire is held by the white man, nothing is safe or unmolested or enduring j against his avidity for gain. Population is with : i .j : 1 .1.1. : 1 1 rapid sirniRs going ueyonu me Mississippi, ana . even easting its eye with longing gazo for the 'woody p'viks of the Rocky mountains nay, evfii for tno surf-beaten ahore of tho western ocean. And in process of lime, will not our territory there be as subject to the wants of lhe whites, as that which we now occupy is? Shall we not then be as strongly solicited, and by the same arguments, to remove still farther west? But there is one condition of a removal which must certainly ronder it hazardous in the ex treme 10 us. The proximity of our then situa tion to that of other and more warlike tribes, will expose us to cons'tant harassing by them; and not only this, but the character of those worse ihan Indians, those white borderers, who infest, yes, infest the western border of the white population, will annoy us more fatally than even the Indians themselves. Surrounded thus by the natives of the soil, and hunted by such a class of whites, who neither "fear God nor regard man," how shall we be better off there than where we now are? Haying said thus much as to our condition after a removal, under the supposition that we wish to return to and continue in the habits of life which prevailed when the country was first taken possession of by the Europeans, I pro ceed now to say, that we do not wish so lo do, and to repeat ii, that so far from it, we desire to renounce those habits of mind and body and adopt in their stead, those habits and feelings those modes of living, and acting and thinking which result from the cultivation and enlighten ing of the moral and intellectual faculties of man. And on this point, I need not insult your com mon sense by endeavouring to show, that it is stupid folly to suppose that a removal from our present location to the western wilds would im prove our condition. What! leave a fertile and somewhat improved soil a home in the midst of civilization and Christianity, where the very breezes are redolent of improvement anq exal tation where, by induction as it were, we must be pervaded by the spirit of enterprise where books and preaching, and conversation, and bus iness, and conduct, whose influence we need are all around us, so that wo have but to stretch forth our hands, and open our ears, and turn our eyes to experience in full their improving and enlightening effects; leave these! and for what? and echo answers for what? But methinks I hear the echo followed by the anxious guileful whisper of some government land company agent for one or two dollars the acre and a western wilderness beyond the white man's reach, where an Eden lies in all its freshness Of beauty for you lo possess and enjoy. But ours, I reply, is sufficiently an Eden now, if but the emissaries of the arch fiend, not so much in the form of a serpent as of man, can be kept from its borders. But 1 will relieve your patience by closing my remarks; it were perhaps needless, perhaps useless, ior me to appear ueiore you wun tnese t r t r i i l " remarhs, ieeuiy anu uuu.y prepareu as uiey were; but, as I intimated in the outset, the cri sis which has now arrived in the affairs df our people furnish the apology and reason for my so doing. And now I ask, what feature df our condition is there which should induce lis to leate our present location, and seek another in the western wilds? Dbes justice, does human ity, does religion, in their relations to us, de mand it? Does the interest and well being of thc whites require it? The plainest dictates of common sense and common honesty, answer No! I ask then, in behalf of the New York In dians and myself, that our white brethren will not urge us to do that which justice, humanity, religion, not only do not require, but condemn. I ask then to let us live on, where our fathers have lived let us enjoy the advantages which our location affords us: that thus we, who have been converted heathen, may be made meet for that inheritance which the jFWicrhath promised to give his Son, our Saviour: so that thc deserts and waste places may be made to blossom like the rose, and the inhabitants thereof utter forth thc high praises of our God. APPENDIX. It has been repeatedly said, that "if thc In dians had been left to the exercise of their own judgment, they would have consented to have sold iheir lands in this state; but the interested white men opposed lo their removal, have in fluenced them to reject the 'liberal offer' of the government." , This allegation is without foundation; the In dians know their interest very well: they ask no questions, whether it is best for them to sell out and remove; .they know that the moment they leave these premises, then will troubles commence; poverty, oppression, destruction, and perhaps war and bloodshed, will fall upon them at the western wilderness. The policy of the general government is well understood by them, and the country assigned them west has been explored again and again, so that they do not lack knowledge in these respects. With all the light and information on the subject which is necessary to form a correct judgment upon it, they have a hundred times repeated, in open council, and in the presence of the United States commissioner, that they cannot and will not sell out their lands and re move beyond lhe Mississippi river. These are the honest judgments of the Indians, and this answer will the commissioner receive from the I honest chiefs. But w,hile porsuations and lawful inducements have been held out lo them, and they fail to pro duce the desired effect, the "Ogden Company," through their agents, lose no lime in buying over the chiefs to aid in procuring the treaty. Rewards hac been made to promote it, and to induce our nation to consent to it. In the state ments which follow, I shall confine myself prin cipally to facts, that the public may be able to judge for themselves as to tho correctness of the above remark. First, tho contract ofjohn Snow, a chief; it was made a year ago, and may be known by the date. This is one of the many contracts entered into by the parties; we have them in our hands. Article of agreement made and concluded this 20th day of July, 1 837, between Heman B. Potter, of the city of Buffalo, of the first part, and John Snow, a Seneca Chief of the Buffalo Creek Reservation, in the county of Eric, of the second part. Whereas, in conformity with the declared policy of the government of the United States, the proprietors of the pre-emptive title of and in the four several tracts of land, reserved by the Seneca tribe of Indians, within the said state of New York, are desirous to induce the above-mentioned tribe of Indians to accept for their future and permanent residence, a tract of country in the territory west of the river Mis sissippi, appropriated for Indians inhabiting the Atlantic and other neighbouring states, and are, also, desirous, by fair purchase, to extinguish the right of the said Indians in and to the lands in ihis state, so reserved by them. And whereas, in furtherance of these objects, and in order to a future treaty by which to effect the same, the said proprietors have authorised negociations to be opened with the chiefs and other leading-men-of the said tribo of Indians, and certain offers lo be made to them in money as a permanent fund for the nation, and a com pensation for their improvements: and have al so deemed it advisable and necessary to em plov the aid, co-operation, and services of cer- lain individuals who are amo to lnttuonce tne said Indians to accept of the offers so to be made to them. And whereas, the said Heman B. Potter, the party of the first part, is empowered to act on behalf of the said proprietors, and to contract with any individuals, whose co-operation and agency may bo necessary and efficient in ac complishing the above-mentioned object; and the said John Snow, the party of ihe second pari, has agreed to contribute his influence and services in the premises; and in case of the ex tinguishment of the same Indian title to the said reserved lands as aforesaid, to sell to the said proprjetors all and singular his improvements, r : and tQ lhe same 7 Now, therefore, it is mutually agreed by and between the parties hereto, as follows: First. Tho party of the second part under takes and agrees to use his best exertions, and endeavors to dispose and induce the said Indians to adopt and pursue the advice and recommen dations of the government of the United States, in respect to their removal and future location, and on such said terms as the party of the first part, and his associates, in the name of the said proprietors, shall propose to sell and release, by treaty, their said reserved lands; and on all occasions, to co-operate with and aid tho said party of the first part, and his associates, as he may be, from time to time, advised, in talks and negociations with the chiefs and other influen tial men of the said tribe; and in the active ap plication of his whole influence at councils, and confidential interviews, for the purpose of effect ing a treaty between the said tribe and the said proprietors, for the extinguishment of the Indian title to the said reserved lands. Second. The second party of tho second part hath sold, and hereby doth sell to the said proprietors, all and singular, his buildings and improvements on the lands so to be released by treaty, and agrees 10 accept compensation there for, in the manner hereinafter mentioned; said buildings and improvements in the mean time not to be leased, or in any manner disposed of by said party of the second part. Third. In consideration of such efforts, co operation, and services on the part of the said John Snow, faithfully bestowed in the premises, and of the sale and release of all and singular his said buildings and improvements upon any of thc lands aforesaid, without leasing qr other wise disposing of the same, as herein above stipulated, the said Heman B. Potter, on his part, and that of his associates, agrees to pay, or cause to be paid, to the said John Snow, the stlm of tvro thousand dollars, within three months after notico of the ratification by tho Senate of the United States, of a valid treaty between the said trib5 and the owners of the said pre-emptive title, or their trustees, by which the right and title of the said Indians shall be effectually released and extinguished, in and to the said reserved lands, subject, however, to the follow ing qualification and understanding: that in case the said treaty shall provide for the payment to individual Indians for their buildings and im provements, then, and in that case the said par- lv nfthrt eornnil nnrt ib:i11 nncnnl rjml rurtMVP . ' 'e ,r, ,v..t ,f ,l. .l,.,;n0,1 ..fi two thousand dollars, such sum or compensation as he shall or may be entitled to by and under tho provisions of such treaty, for his said build ings and improvements, and the balance of the said two thousand dollars which shall remain, after deducting therefrom such compensation as aforesaid, and that only to bo paid by the said party of the first part, as abovo specified, within tho time above-mentioned, or as soon thereafter as tho 3aid balance can bo ascer tained; and in case said party of the second part shall be entitled, 'by and under the pro- vision of said treaty, to the sum of two thousand dollars and upwards, he shall receive the same as may be therein provided, and the said party of the first part shall be discharged from paying any part of the said two thousand dollars. And the said John Snow shall also be enti tled, at a nominal rent, to a lease from the own ers of the pre-emptive title, or their trustees, of and for the lot of land actually improved and occupied by him called the Whipple farm, near the old counctl-house, on the Buffalo reservation. for and during his own natural life, determina ble when and as soon as he shall cease to live, on and occupy lhe same; said lease to be execu ted by the lessors as soon after said treaty as said lands shall have been surveyed and al lotted, said lease having reference to said sur vey. This agreement on the part ol said pariv ol the first part, being expressly dependant upon . m t a treaty, to be made anu ratinea upon terms, conditions and stipulations, to be proposed and offered by said parly of the first part and his associates. II. B. Potter, l. s. his John i Snow, l. s. mark. Witness:. hi" . George X JniEso.Vj - .l mark. True copy. In addition io the above stipulation, money and brandy have been used for thc same pur pose: and finally intimidation and discourage ment are not wanting; for instance, they will tell us, "Here, my friend, you have got to go, there is no earthly doubt the policy of the government is fixed, and your best course is to get as much money as you can from tho pre emption company, make you a contract, &c." The object of the present council is, to give an opportunity for the chiefs to assent to the amend ments of tho last winter's treaty, or to refuso them. The resolution of the senate is in tho following words, to vt: Provided always, and be it further resolved. That this treaty shall have no force or effect whatever, as it relates to any of the said trib, nations, or bands, of New York Indians, nor shall it be understood that the senate have as sented to any of the contracts connected with it, until the same, with the amendments herein proposed, is submitted, and fully and fairly ex plained by a commissioner of the United States to each of said tribes, or bands, seperately as sembled in council, and they have given their free and voluntary assent thereto; and if one or more of said tribes, or bands, when consult ed as aforesaid, shall freely assent to said treaty as amended, and to their contract connected therewith, it shall be binding and obligatory upon those so assenting, although other or oth ers of said bands or tribes may not give their consent, and thereby cease to be parties there to: Provided further, That if any portion or part of said Indians do not emigrate, the president shall retain a proper proportion of said sum of four hundred thousand dollars, and shall deduct from the quantity of land allowed west of thc Mississippi, such number of acres as will leave to each emigrant three hundred and twenty acres only. Another "Mystery." The Rochester Democrat is informed, by passengers from Buf falo on thc canal, that as the packet boat passed Field's tavern, about midway on the Tonawan da Creek, a large collection of people was ob served, who had come from all directions to listen to a singular phenomenon at that place. Every day between the hours of 4 and 7, P. M. is distinctly heard in the canal, (or creek, which is here used for the canal,) groans, as of a per son in deep distress. A physician of Lockport was one of a party who had chartered a boat and paid a visit to the spot. Ho assured the Democrat's informant that tho sounds were there, and that the cause remained a mystery Conjectures were so various as the intelligent or superstition of those who witnessed it would naturally suggest. If the following aint from the Richmond Star it ?night have been. Streeier was skinning eels the other day. "What am you doing to them things?" said Bill. "I'm dressing them." "Undressing cm I guess vou moan, don't you?" " "Do you start for school, now, or I'll dress you. ras there ever Mich a hoy?" 'Pa, is Pe misv 1 vatiia the father of nil the othor '(Jertainly not, my child; why did you ask that question!' 4 'Cause I see that the news papers call it Pa.' An exchange paper says that tho most dignified, glorious, and lovely work of nature is woman, neit to her is man, and then Berkshire pigs. Dialogue at a Boarding House Table. "Dig by, will you take some of this butler." "Thank you, Quilp, I belong to a temperance" society, and can't lake any thing strong," replied Digby, Bo.stoii Slalcs?nan.
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