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. XIL Every congregation desirous of receiving assistance from the fund , jshall produce a recommendation , signed by two or more subscribers , not members of such congregation . Kill- The committee shall have the
power of electing as honorary members , such p « rson 9 a ~< s , by their advice and services , shall render themselves particularly useful to the society , who shall possess all the privileges of other subscribers ; but the committee shall not elect above two honorary members in the course of one year , and they must specify m the
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Your favour of the % 2 d of October was received on the last of December ; and my not acknowledging the receipt of it sooner , has been owing to apainful indisposition , which rendered writing difficult . This letter is the first fruit of my recovery . Just after the period of our first acquaintance , ( about thirteen years ago , ) I was appointed by the President of the United States , ah agent for Indian affairs south of the Ohio , and
especially charged with the plan of civili-2 ation . I have ever since Been occupied in this important concern . I will not give you my opinion of the plan of the missionaries heretofore sent among the Indian tribes , or of their success ; nor will J , to a man of your benevolent mind , attempt to contrast my humble
occupation with the : passing scenes of the civilized world ; my endeavours to civilize the aboriginal men of America , ( scarcely meriting a paragraph , in a newspaper , ) with the learning , ingenuity , and accomplishment of ages , incessantly occupied in riveting the
shackles of slavery on , and deteriorating , the men of Europe— there the honoured subject of the historic page , and the theme of the poet ' s song . But I will tell you my plan , how 1 have pursued it , and my prospect of certain ultimate biiccess , " 1 began with the pastoral life , my
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yearly report j the considerations on which such elections are made . XIV . The committee shall hav £ the power , in any emergency , to call an extraordinary general meeting of the subscribers . XV . The above rules shall not be
altered , except at a general meeting . Any alterations intended to be proposed to the society , must be first notified t& the committee at one of its meetings ; and no motion for altering the rules shall be carried , unless by two thirds of the members present at the general meeting .
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charge being hunters . I recommended attention to raising stock , particularly cattle and hogs . Our climate suits both ; and we abound , winter and summer , in grass reed or cane . It is not so favourable to the propagation of horses , though we have grgat numbers of them . I next recommended agriculture and raising of fruit-trees , particularly the peach ; then ,
domestic manufactures ; then figures ; and lastly , letters . I set examples in all things myself , and teach the objects of my care also by precept : I teach them morality ; to be true to therrif selves ; to respect their own rights , and those of their neighbours ; and to be useful members of the planet they inhabit .
"On all fit occasions , I inculcate ? , above all things , an aversion to war , at the greatest curse "which can afflict a nation ; to be just ; to be generous ; and , particularly , to protect the stranger and traveller in their land . I leave the
affairs of another world to be introduced by the Father of all Worlds , or such of his benevolent agents as to his wisdom may seem meet . Thus acting , I have prevailed on a fourth part of my charge to Ieaire their clustered situation in the old towns , and and move out , for the greater convent ** ency of raising stock , and employing good land in cultivation j to make fen-
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Intettigence . —The Civilization of tlie Indians . 519
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EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN APPOINTED TO THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE CIVIXIZ ATIOxV OF THE INDIANS ,. THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES , DATED CREEHL OCONNEE , JANUARY 22 18 O ° TO HIS FRIENDS IN PENNSYLVANIA .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 519, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/45/
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