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Fort Cass
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Extract from a letter from the
Cherokee Country.
“The Cherokees are a sober, quiet and orderly people. On Sunday
last I was still at Fort Cass. At the surrounding camps religious
exercises were strictly observed. The gospel was proclaimed by
full-blooded Cherokees in their native language—the hold
sacrament was administered, and three were baptized. Every thing was
conducted in a manner so earnest and solemn as to cause the white man
to blush. The preachers referred to the present condition of their
people, exhorting them to use no violence against their oppressors; but
to submit all things to an overruling Providence. A portion of the
Testament and some hymns have been translated into the Cherokee tongue!
and had not the Georgians destroyed their printing press, the Bible
might at this day be read in the Cherokee language.”
Source: Army and Navy Chronicle 7
(September 13, 1838): 168.
United States to Wm. H. Strain
1838
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March 22nd
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For a pair of hinges has & staple &
putting them on a Box for
the purpose of containing spice & for making a lid for said box |
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$1.50
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Amount
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$1.50
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I certify that the above amount is correct & just & that the
work was necessary
Edwd Deas, Lt $ Disb. Agent
Signed by Wm. H. Strain at Fort Cass, Tennessee, 24 Mawrch 1838.
Source: RG217,
General Accounting Office, Treasury Department, Second Auditor, Indian
Accounts, 1817-1922, Edward Deas File.
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