o, separated from them before the advent of the
whites. Se-quo-yah knew this, and expected in his rambles to meet them.
He had camped on the spurs of the Rocky Mountains; he had threaded the
valleys of New Mexico; looked at the adobe villages of the Pueblos, and
among the race, neither Indian nor Spaniard, with swarthy face and
unkempt hair. He had occasion to moralize over those who had
voluntarily become the slaves of others even meaner than themselves,
who spoke a jargon neither Indian nor Spanish. Catholics in name, who
ate red pepper pies, gambled like the fashionable frequenters of Baden,
and swore like troopers.

It was late in the year 1842 that the wanderer, sick of a fever, worn
and weary, halted his ox-cart near San Fernandino, in Northern Mexico.
Fate had willed that his work should die with him. But little of his
labor was saved, and that not enough to aid any one to develop his
idea. Bad nursing, exposure, and lack of proper medical attendance
finished the work. He sleeps, not far from the Rio Grande, the greatest
of his race.

At one time Congress contemplated having his remains removed and a
monument erected over them; it was postponed, however.

The Legislature of the Little Cherokee Nation every year includes in
its general appropriations a pension of three hundred dollars to his
widow--the only literary pension paid in the United States.

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V. 41, 1870, by Unknown

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