Jeremiah Evarts, Essays on the present crisis in the.
Jeremiah Evarts, Essays on the present crisis in the condition of the American Indians, The Effects of Removal on American Indian Tribes, Native Americans and the Land, Nature Transformed, TeacherServe, National Humanities Center.
In 1829, Jeremiah Evarts, a Christian missionary and chief opponent of the Indian Removal Act, wrote an essay under the pseudonym William Penn, entitled “On the Present Crisis in the Condition of the American Indians.” The original documen t has been digitized and housed on The Library of Congress’ website.
He wrote twenty four essays and published them under pseudonym of William Penn. In one of his essays, Evarts stated that “the Cherokees have a perfect right to retain the possession of their country as long as they please” and could lose their land only if they “voluntarily surrendered” it.
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Henry Warner Bowden; Cherokee Removal: The “William Penn” Essays and Other Writings. By Jeremiah Evarts. Edited by Francis Paul Prucha. Knoxville: University o.
Evarts was a Vermont native, a trained lawyer, and an evangelical missionary. His “William Penn Essays” aimed to prevent the Indian Removal Act of 1830, through a blend of legal, logical, and moral arguments. They were the most widely read in America since Thomas Paine’s 1776 “Common Sense.”.
Evarts's William Penn essays look remarkably as though they were written last week. His arguments about Native national sovereignty, the treaties, federal ob ligations and illegal interference by states in the affairs of Native governments can be found in almost any recent treatise on Indian law.
Essays on the present crisis in the condition of the American Indians (electronic resource): first published in the National Intelligencer, under the signature of William Penn (i.e. Jeremiah Evarts).
Document Record Creator Evarts, Jeremiah, 1781-1831. Title Essays on the present crisis in the condition of the American Indians: first published in the National Intelligencer, under the signature of William Penn (i.e. Jeremiah Evarts).
Jeremiah Evarts is the author of The Removal of the Indians (4.50 avg rating, 2 ratings, 0 reviews, published 2012), Essays on the Present Crisis in the.
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Jeremiah Evarts. EVARTS, Jeremiah, philanthropist, born in Sunderland, Vermont, 3 February 1781; died in Charleston, South Carolina, 10 May 1831. He was graduated at Yale in 1802, and, after some time spent in teaching, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1806. and practiced that profession in New Haven for about four years.
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