s, and let nothing hinder you
from them. Do not quarrel with each other. Aid one another in your
useful employ; obey your teachers, and walk in the way they tell you."

In November, after this speech was delivered, a fount of types in the
new Cherokee alphabet was shipped from Boston to the Cherokee nation:
and from an account published at the time, I take a few sentences.

"The press will be employed in printing the New Testament and other
portions of the Bible, and school-books in the Cherokee language, and
such other books in Cherokee or English as will tend to diffuse
knowledge through the nation. A prospectus has also been issued for a
newspaper, entitled the _Cherokee Phoenix_, to be printed partly in
Cherokee, and partly in English; the first number of which is expected
to appear early in January. All this has been done by order of the
Cherokee government, and at their expense. They have also hired a
printer to superintend the printing office, to whom they give $400 a
year, and another printer to whom they give $300. Mr. Elias Boudinot,
who was educated, in part, at the Foreign Mission School, then
established in Cornwall, (Conn.,) was appointed editor, with a yearly
salary of $300.

"Among the Cherokees, then, we are to see the first printing-press
ever owned and employed by any nation of the aborigines of this
continent; the first effort at writing and printing in characters of
their own; the first newspaper, and the first book printed among
themselves; the first editor; and the first well organized system for
securing a general diffusion of knowledge among the people. Among the
Cherokees, also, we see established the first regularly elective
government, with the legislative, judicial, and executive branches
distinct; with the safeguards of a written constitution and trial by
jury. Here, also, we see first the Christian religion recognised and
protected by the government; regular and exemplary Christian churches;
and flourishing schools extensively established, and, in many
instances, taught by native Cherokees."

_Brian._ I suppose, by this time, they have a great many books
printed, and more than one newspaper.

_Hunter._ Alas, poor fellows! they have had something very different
to think about since the times I have been speaking of. I cannot make
you understand all the particulars. But the government of the state
within whose bounds the Indian country lay, wished to have the Indians
under their contro