- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Letter, 1818 July 15, Department of War to Jer[emia]h Evarts [and] Rev. Elias Cornelius / John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War
- Creator:
- Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
- Date of Original:
- 1818-07-15
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Land tenure
Cherokee Indians--Education - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Copy of a letter wherein John C. Calhoun writes to Jeremiah Evarts and Reverend Elias Cornelius to inform them that Congress is in control of the public land that was once Indian territory and will dictate where the missionary schools may be established after the extinguishment of the Indian title. He informs them that the four youths, which accompany them on their way to a school in Connecticut, will be allowed a sum of one hundred dollars per year for four years, July 15, 1818.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- ch039
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch039
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch039#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch039/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Tennessee State Library, State Library Cherokee Collection, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 2 pages/leaves
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Tennessee State Library, State Library Cherokee Collection, box 1, folder 29, document ch039.
- Holding Institution:
- Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Rights:
-
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[added text (appears to be different ink and hand): D. ] Letter from the Hon. [Honorable] John C. Calhoun, secretary of War to Jerh. [Jeremiah] Evarts Esq. [Esquire] & Rev. Elias Cornelius, in answer to theirs of
15th. July 1818 -- dated
Department of War
15 July 1818
Sirs,
I am directed by the President to assure you, and through you the Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, that he has the best disposition to afford Every Encouragement in his power to the benevolent Efforts of the society, to diffuse knowledge & civilization among our Indian neighbors; & that he views, with approbation, the judicious measures which have already been adopted by the Board to Effect these objects.
The public lands, after the Extinguishment of the Indian title, being Entirely under the disposition & control of Congress, that body, only, can give the assurance desired by the Board, as to the disposition which may be made after an extinguishment of the Indian title, of the lands on which the schools of the missionaries may be Established.
The agent for the Cherokee nation will be directed to furnish as great a number of the ordinary implements of husbandry & of domestic manufactures, as, in his opinion, the exigencies of the school already Established there may require.
So the four youths which are now with you, on their way to the school in Connecticut, one hundred
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dollars a year will be allowed to Each, while at school, provided the term of their tuition does not exceed four years.
The assistance requested in erecting a corn mill near each station will, if practicable, be afforded.
As it is the wish of the President that the Arkansas should be the permanent home of the Cherokees, he would be particularly friendly to the Establishment of schools among the Cherokees there, and will render such aids as the public interest & the state of the Indian appropriation may permit.
I have the honor to be, Your obedt. [obedient] servant signed
[Signed] John C. Calhoun
Rev. Jerh. Evarts, & Rev. Elias Cornelius