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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 24: White vendetta. (search)
ry day last year? Has any of the Sisney party suffered for that crime? It is but turn about. So reason all the tribe of Sheriff Frank. A murder was committed in the previous year. Who doubts that some of the Bulliner family had marked this day for Sisney's death? On searching out the facts, I find a story of vendetta in the Prairie lands, which for vindictive passion equals the most brutal quarrels in Ajaccio and the Monte d'oro; almost rivals in atrocity the blood feuds of the two Cherokee factions in Vinta between Stand Watie and Jack Ross. Colonel Sisney and George Bulliner were neighbours, living on adjoining farms, near Carterville. Sisney had a farm of three hundred and sixty acres, Bulliner a farm, a saw mill, and a woollen mill. Sisney, a native of the country, had served in the war, and gained the rank of captain. How he obtained the grade of colonel, no one seems to know; he may have been commissioned in the way of Colonel Brown. Bulliner was a new comer, who
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 26: Cherokee feuds. (search)
Chapter 26: Cherokee feuds. what is about to happen? we enquire of a settler at Olathe, a city with six log shanties, a church, a school, a drinking bar, and a fringe of maize. Olathe is suffering from a scare. Three weeks ago, five men with masked faces, stopped the train running from Fort Scott to Kansas City, in open day. Two of the five men kept guard, their rifles cocked, while their pals entered the cars, and rifled the express of thirty thousand dollars. No one interfered, for who could tell how many passengers were members of the gang? Why should a man expose himself to fire and steel? The thieves got off. But that affair is three weeks old; the present scare arises from events to come. A gang of Cherokees, under Billy Ross, their savage chief, are coming up the country, swearing they will burn out the White men and carry off the White women from Vinita, that is what's going to happen, growls a settler on the Kansas plain. But surely, I venture to put in,
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 27: a Zambo village. (search)
heir most primitive stages-each in a phase not. seen at Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans. Before the war broke out, all Negroes living on the Indian soil were slaves. They were the property of Creek and Choctaw, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Cherokee — the five nations which are said to be reclaimed from their savage state. Their lot was hard, their suffering sharp; no harder lot, no sharper suffering, known on earth. In other places servitude is softened by some tie of race, of language, ive a lot in life more wretched than that of being a Red man's slave? To be a White man's thrall was bad enough; but on the worst plantation in Georgia and Alabama there were elements of tenderness and justice never to be found in the best of Cherokee and Seminole camps. In Georgia and Alabama ladies were always near, and children constantly in sight. A civilised and Christian society lay around. People lived by law, and even where cruel masters abounded most, the forces of society were o
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 30: Oklahoma. (search)
Chapter 30: Oklahoma. Oklahoma is the name proposed by Creek and Cherokee radicals for the Indian countries, when the tribes shall have become a people, and the hunting grounds a State. Enthusiasts, like Adair and Boudinot, dream of such a time. These Indians cannot heal their tribal wounds, nor get their sixteen thousand Cherokees to live in peace; yet they indulge the hope of reconciling Creek and Seminole, Choctaw and Chickasaw, under a common rule and a single flag. Still more, thon the Plains believes that any full-blooded Indian can be civilised. A Red man cannot understand a White man's law. Take the last decision of Chief Justice Waite and his learned brethren of the Supreme Court, and ask how either a Creek or Cherokee, not to say an Osage or a Kickapoo, is to comprehend such law? Years ago the Indians, as the weaker party, became subject to a general law of removal by the State from one point to another. If their hunting grounds were wanted by White farmers
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 31: Red and Black. (search)
hange for other lands and forests, to be his own, according to Indian usages, as long as grain grows and water runs, should give the Black man so many rights and privileges, that he is everywhere equal, in many places superior, to the White men. Creeks and Cherokees give up the puzzle. In Taliquah, chief camp of the Cherokees nation, a little sheet of news is printed by a mixed blood editor, from which I cut this paragraph — a summary of the Red Question, as the matters strike an educated Cherokee: As a people we are not prepared for American citizenship. Not that we are not sufficiently intelligent, or honest, or industrious, or lack much of any of those substantial qualities which go to make a person fit to be free anywhere. But that we have not that training in and experience of those arts of guile which a condition of freedom authorizes, if it does not encourage, to be employed against the unsuspecting-both being equally free to cheat and be cheated — as a national right.
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Appendix no. 2: the work of grace in other armies of the Confederacy. (search)
Army of Tennessee. Selma, Ala., en route for North Alabama. Report for November and December, 1864. Rev. Robert J. Harp, Superintendent: Dear Brother: In November I brought the supplies of the Association in my possession to Cherokee, Alabama, the nearest point of railroad transportation to our army, then at Florence, Alabama, preparing for the continuation of the fall campaign into Middle Tennessee. It was not practicable or advisable for me to carry supplies and follow the army, and the time was spent in distributing Heralds, hymn-books, and Testaments on the railroads from Selma to Demopolis, Alabama, and thence to Meridian and Corinth, Mississippi, and from Corinth to Cherokee, Alabama, and on the steamboats from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. I also furnished reading for the hospitals at Lauderdale Springs, Corinth and Iuka, Mississippi. I visited and preached twice for Patterson's Brigade of Roddy's Division of Cavalry. The officers and soldiers took much
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 6: school-teaching in Boston and Providence. (1837-1838.) (search)
m which educated men are not exempt, and which are quite sure to visit highly-educated women. One lady said to her successor, Miss Jacobs, soon after her arrival at the school: Miss Fuller says she thinks in German; do you believe it? It was a discourteous question to a new-comer, who would naturally wish to keep clear of the feuds and the claims of her predecessor; but fortunately Miss Jacobs had ready tact, if Miss Fuller had not. Oh, yes! she said, I do not doubt it; I myself dream in Cherokee; which left her assailant discomfited. James Freeman Clarke has lately said in a sermon that he once went to see Margaret Fuller when she had been teaching in Providence for a year or two. She showed him two packages of letters which she had received from her pupils. These letters, said she, if you should read them, would show you the work I have been doing for my scholars. The first package contains the letters which they usually write to me after they have been in the school two or
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
ber [1770-1844], 1.424, 2.423.—Letters from G., 2.208, 213. Benson, Sarah Thurber [1799-1850].—Letters from G., 2.229, 238. Benton, Thomas Hart [1782-1858], upholds slavery in Texas, 1.153, denounces abolition pictures, 232; makes light of Cherokee outrage, 271; slow to discern A. S. agitation, 416; opposes Calhoun's bill for censorship of mails, 2.74; praises Northern doughfaces, 80; fears Southern ultraism, 81. Bethune, George Washington, Rev. [1805-1862], 1.447. Bexley, Lord [1766-1lities, 265, the Bible indispensable, 266; sabbatarianism, 266, 267, defends revivals, 267; demands a Nat. A. S. Society, 268; testimonies against intemperance, 268, war, 269, capital punishment, 269, imprisonment for debt, 269, tobacco, 1.269, Cherokee outrage, 270, Masonry, 271; tributes to Lundy and Knapp, 272, S. J. May, 273; secures Henry Benson as agent and meets G. W. Benson, 274; first steps towards A. S. organization, 275; interview with Aaron Burr, 276（1831）——Founds New Eng. A. S
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XII: the Black regiment (search)
cribed in a letter to his mother. Advanced Picquet Station, Port Royal Island, April 8, 1863. We have happened into the most fascinating regions and life, riding all day through lanes overarched with roses and woods dense with young emerald leaves and looking across blue streams to the wooded and sunny mainland of South Carolina. A life that is as good as anything we have had, were only the zest of immediate danger added! A few days later he wrote:— This charming life among Cherokee roses and peach blossoms will last awhile . . . .How funny some of the rumors were about the capture of our expedition—one Democratic paper writing my obituary! Meantime the delay of payment caused more or less anxiety, though promises kept up hope. The paymaster writes, recorded the Colonel, that he is really making up our payrolls and we shall probably be paid in a week or ten days. The infinite pains Colonel Higginson took to keep his men in good training is revealed in such not
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
r and foreign edition. J. S. Buckminster, Monthly anthology, II, 549 (1805). The omniscient Dr. Samuel Latham Mitchill, See Book II, Chap. III. when he was United States Senator from New York, had a song on war in the Osage tongue and two Cherokee songs of friendship, which were sung at his house in Washington, translated into French by an interpreter and rendered into English immediately, January I, 1806. American Antiquarian Society, Transactions, I, 313 (1820). From the Latin Mitchiof the Amerind mode seems to have been accident, that sort of divine accident that one wishes might happen oftener. It appears that Joel Chandler Harris did not himself know, when he wrote them, that his Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Fox were original Cherokee inventions. In the reports of the Bureau of Ethnology, where you will find their Amerind forebears, the tales have a grim quality, a Spoon River quality, which to our understanding misses the humouresque which they had to the Indian. Coming to
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