Today in Chickamauga History - September 19
1835 September 19: PAPERS 0F MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR – Page 238 -
BIG MUSH AND COL. BOWLS, CHEROKEE VILLAGE TALK TO THE CHEROKEES
Address to the principals that may have any power or interest in this we wish now to give you a few line of our busine s one of our most essential speeches in councel is this to call on our own chiefs and young men not to be to forward in business for it is necessary to understand well before we speak, there is much complaint about the wright of our lands our young men appear to think that the Americans will with to fight us before they will consent that they will leave our lands in peace but we wish to shet up all such nois as that because we suppose that som of them are like som of us loves to talk about that they have no business in so much with we old men must speak first there is a murmering amongst us and som of our reel brethren are dissatisfied for the life of som of them that have been taken but we old chiefs order it so that their shall be nothing more said about it because a druncan man is always in falt also, we hope there is enough of good members of society among the Americans that would not have taken any of our lives without a cause therefore we old chiefs one and [all wi)ll understand you and our selves before a bad thing shall be done there have went reports unto arkansas that som of the americans got to trading and drinking and often got into difficulty and have banged those Cherokees but We that are here present have contradicted it because we have a very different tale so this puts an end to this speech
Sept. the 19 1835 the civil chief the interpreter Jack (--1)
• Assisted by Fox Fields who understands English complete Cherokee by birth from the old nation
Big mush
Colonel Bowls
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