Author: Rachel Caroline Eaton
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9781230315270
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI GEORGIA'S HOSTILITY TO THE CHEROKEES The Cherokee delegation, composed of John Ross, Major Ridge, George Lowrey and Elijah Hicks, set out to Washington promptly on the adjournment of Council. They travelled on horseback carrying whatever was necessary to the journey in saddlebags strapped to their saddles. The trip up to the capital at this time of year was not an easy one. But as they rode over wind-swept ridges and through snow-covered valleys, or, at night, sat by the fire of the wayside "public stop," they never tired of discussing the questions of the day, particularly those which concerned the welfare of their own nation. For several years they had been associated together in the Cherokee Council, knew each other well, and trusted each other implicitly. They were all men of affairs also, and although one of them could not read nor write in English, he had acquired much useful information and was keen and astute in managing the political affairs of his people.1 Ross was doubtless the best educated one of the four. Besides his two years' experience in the Academy at Maryville he had read many valuable books which he found in his father's library, and his letters prove that he wrote very clearly, though his style was somewhat formal and stilted. As to personal appearance, they all possessed the independent, dignified bearing which has always distinguished Cherokee men reared in the mountains, and their natural politeness and courtesy marked them as gentlemen, in spite of the fact that their forbears, a generation or two before, had been considered savages. Arriving in Washington the middle of January the delegation learned, to their disappointment, that they could not confer personally with the President, but that any...
