translation in
the Roman alphabet, completed a translation of the N i • w Testament in
the new syllabary, the work being handed about in manuscript, as
there were asyet no typescast in the Sequoya characters. 8 In the same
month he forwarded to Thomas McKenney, chief of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs at Washington, a manuscript table of the characters,
with explanation, this being probably its first introduction to official
notice. ;
In L827 the Cherokee council having formally resolved to establish
a national paper in the Cherokee language and characters, types for
that purpose were cast in Boston, under the supervision of the noted
missionary, Worcester, of the American Hoard of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions, who. in December of that year contributed to the
Missionary Herald five verses of Genesis in the new syllabary, this
seeming to be its firstappearance in print. Early in the next year
the press and types arrived at New Echota, and the first number of
the new paper, Tsa'lagi Tsu'lehisanun' hi, the Cherokee Phoenix, printed
in both languages, appeared on February 21, 1828. The first printers
were two white men. Isaac N. Harris and .John F. Wheeler, with
John Candy, a half-blood apprentice. Elias Boudinot (Galagi'na, ••The
Buck"), an educated Cherokee, was the editor, and Reverend S. A.
Worcesterwas the guiding spirit who brought order out of chaos and set
the work in motion. The office was a log house. The hand press and
types, aftei having been shipped by water from Boston, were trans-
ported two hundred miles by wagon from Augusta to their destination.
The printing paper had been overlooked and had to be brought by the
same tedious process from Knoxville.