Boston, 1872; letter of Governor Johnson, Dei
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• Meadows (?), State of the Province ol Georgia, p . 1742, in Force Tracts, I 1831
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mode of life, had quickly acquired a Leading influence among them.
He drew up for their adoption a scheme of government modeled after
the European plan, with the capital at Great Tellico, in Tennessee,
the principal medicine man as emperor, and himself as the emperor's
secretary. Dnder this title he corresponded with the South Carolina
government until it began to be feared that he would ultimately win
overthe whole tribe to the French side. A commissi r was sent to
arrest him, but the Cherokee refused to give him up. and the deputy
was obliged to return under safe-conduct of an escort furnished by
Priber. Five years after the inauguration of his work, however, he
was seized by some English traders while on his way to Fort Toulouse,
and brought as a prisoner to Frederica, in Georgia, where he soon
afterward died while under confinement. Although his enemies had
represented him as a monster, inciting the Indians to the grosses!
immoralities, he proved to be a gentleman of polished address, exten-
sive learning, and rare courage, as was shown later on the occasion of
an explosion in the barracks magazine. Besides Greek, Latin. French,
German, Spanish, and fluent English, he spoke also the Cherokee,
and among his