- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- An address to the whites delivered in the First Presbyterian Church on the 26th of May, 1826 / Elias Boudinot
- Creator:
- Boudinot, Elias, d. 1839
- Date of Original:
- 1826-05-26
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Social conditions
Cherokee language
Cherokee Indians--Education
Cherokee Indians--Missions
Cherokee newspapers - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- speeches
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This document is a published copy of a speech delivered by Elias Boudinot, Cherokee missionary and future editor of the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper, in Philadelphia on May 26, 1826 and printed by William F. Geddes. Boudinot's speech was part of a fund-raising tour designed to procure money for the establishment of a printing press in the Cherokee Nation for publishing a national newspaper. In this speech, Boudinot emphasizes the "progress" of the Cherokees by detailing their agricultural and domestic employments and the invention and adoption of the written Cherokee language devised by Sequoyah (also George Guest). Boudinot further highlights the influence Christian missionaries have had in the Cherokee Nation. He urges his audience to distinguish themselves philanthropically by supporting not only the publication of a national newspaper, but also the establishment of a seminary within the Cherokee Nation.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- bdt001
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_bdt001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_bdt001#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_bdt001/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], E99.C5 B65, The University of Georgia Libraries, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 15 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the The University of Georgia Libraries, E99.C5 B65, box N/A, folder N/A, document N/A.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
