Cherokee Tribe
	Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) July 28, 1824 Small Pox The Augusta Georgia Chronicle state that the small pox has appeared in the Cherokee nation, where it is spreading with serious mortality. Five Indians of the Nation, on their return from Philadelphia found their company attacked with this alarming disease on the journey – four of them died, and one unfortunately was attacked after he got home, and was the occasion of spreading the disease in the neighborhood. Sixteen persons, it is said, have already died with it, and in almost every case it proves mortal. An express was sent to Augusta for the purpose of procuring some of the vaccine matter, which it was hoped might be the instrument of arresting the course of this malignant and fatal disorder. The Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) July 22, 1833 Page 3 Column 2 The Cherokees – We have this morning received a letter from a Cherokee Indian, dated New Echota, June 21st, from which we make the following extract: "The Cherokees will make a strong effort at the next Congress for a definitive adjustment of the stupendous robbery of our property by the State of Georgia; and it is intended to present to the American people, the manner in which this property has been gambled off by the State. Hitherto words have had but comparatively little effect on the public mind, when we have been detailing the darkest crime ever perpetrated upon an unoffending people." – N.Y. Com. Adv. [submitted by Nancy Piper]
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