- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- Civilization of the Cherokees: [Excerpt] from an address of Honorable Edward Everett, representative in Congress from Massachusetts, delivered in the House of Representatives, 1830 May 19
- Creator:
- Everett, Edward, 1794-1865
- Publisher:
- Manuscript held by the The Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, State Library Cherokee Collection, box 19, folder 10, document ch096.
- Date of Original:
- 1830-05-19
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Population
Cherokee Indians--Relocation - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- speeches
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This document is a typed excerpt from a speech delivered by Edward Everett, a Senator from Massachusetts, on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on May 19, 1830. The speech was printed in the Congressional Debates, Vol. VI, pt. 2, and pertains to the proposed removal of the Southeastern Indians to a territory west of the Mississippi River. The typed excerpt presented here is from a portion of Everett's speech in which he describes the current conditions of the Cherokee people by enumerating statistics relative to population and property. This excerpt contains several minor variations from Everett's original wording.
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:
- ch096
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch096
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch096#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_ch096/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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Civilization of the Cherokees.
From an address of Honorable Edward Everett, representative in Congress from Massachusetts, delivered in the House of Representatives,
May 19, 1830.
The census of the Cherokee Nation, East, for the year
1824, shows 14,283 Cherokee citizens. They owned at this time 1,277 slaves.
There were 18 schools in the Nation, with an attendance of 314 scholars of both sexes.
They had 36 grist mills and 13 sawmills.
There were 762 looms and 2,486 spinning wheels.
They possessed 172 wagons and 2,923 plows.
There were in the Nation 7,683 horses, 22,531 cattle, 46,732 swine, 2,566 sheep, 430 goats.
There were 62 blacksmith shops, 9 stores, 2 tanyards [tan-yards], and one powder mill.