- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Article on the Cherokees], 1844, [from the] Universal gazetteer / R. Brookes and John Marshall
- Creator:
- Brookes, (Richard), fl. 1721-1763
- Contributor to Resource:
- Marshall, John, 1783-1841
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, State Library Cherokee Collection, box 19, folder 10, document ch094.
- Date of Original:
- 1844
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Social conditions
Cherokee Indians--Population - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This document is a typed excerpt from an article in the Universal Gazetteer, a geographic dictionary originally published in 1835, and reprinted in 1844. The typed excerpt contains parts of the full article and describes the state of the Cherokee people in the mid-nineteenth century. Cherokee leaders Charles Hicks and John Ross are mentioned. The excerpt presented here contains several minor typographical variations from the original article.
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:
- ch094
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch094
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch094#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch094/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], State Library Cherokee Collection, The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 page/leaf
- Holding Institution:
- Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Rights:
-
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Universal Gazeteer [Gazetteer],
1844.
by R. Brookes & John Marshall.
p. 188.
The Cherokees are among the bravest and noblest of the American race. This nation has long been distinguished for being in advance of the other Indian tribes in the arts of civilization. Some of their chieftains have been really great men, fully sensible of the disadvantages of their condition, and sagacious in devising a means to remedy them. Among these chieftains, the late Charles Hicks, and John Ross, now at the head of the nation, were preeminent. Under their directing councils, and aided by the policy of the general government, they have outstripped all the other tribes in the march of improvement.
The natives carry on considerable trade with the adjoining states, and some of they [them] carry their cotton down the Tennessee, and even down the Mississippi to New Orleans. Apple and peach orchards are very common, and much attention is paid to gardens in the nation. There are many public roads in the nation and houses of entertainment kept by the natives.
Numerous / [added text: & ] flourishing villages are to be seen in every section of the country. Cotton and woolen cloths and blankets are manufactured here. Almost every family raise [edge of document: s ] cotton for its own consumption. Industry and commercial enterprise [deleted text: have ] [added text: are ] extending themselves throughout the nation.
Different machanical [mechanical] trades are pursued. The population is rapidly increasing, and the female character is much respected.
Their number is about 14000.