Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins... and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Management Area of Cherokee National Forest, interested in fish,... Has mapped Tellico and Bald Rivers And North River, with the tributaries Brookshire Branch and Sugar Cove Creed: A fishy map for facile fishery....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this instrument of perfidy; and t...he name of this nation, hitherto the sweet omen of religion and liberty, will stink to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment. Howeve...r feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor. For God is in the sentiment, and it cannot be withstood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government. On the broaching... of this question, as general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel. Will the American government steal? Will it lie? Will it kill?--We ask triumphantly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it i...s not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that they shall be duly cared for; that they shall taste justice and love from all to whom we have delegated the office of dealing with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like other cities created overnight in the Outlet, Woodward acquired between noon and sunset of September 16, 1893, a population o...f five thousand; and that night a voluntary committee on law and order sent around the warning, "if you must shoot, shoot straight up!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »