too late to find him alive.
A pension of three hundred dollars, previously voted to him by the
Nation, was continued to his widow — the only literary pension in the
United States. Besides a wife he left two sons and a daughter. 1
Sequoyah district of the Cherokee Nation was named in his honor, and
the great trees of California (Sequoia gigantea) also preserve his
memory.
In L846 a treaty was concluded at Washington by which the con-
flicting claims of the Old Settlers and later emigrants were adjusted,
reimbursement was promised for sums unjustly deducted from the
five-million-dollar payment guaranteed under the treaty of 1835, and
a general amnesty was proclaimed for all past offenses within the
Nation." Final settlement of the treaty claims has not yet been made,
and the matter is still a subject of litigation, includingall the treaties
and agreements up to the present date.
In 1859 the devoted missionary Samuel Worcester, author of
numerous translations and first organizer of the Advocate, died at
Park Hill mission, in the Cherokee Nation, after thirty-five years
spent in the service of the Cherokee, having suffered chains, impris-
onment, and exile for their sake. 3
The breaking out of the civil war in 1861 found the Cherokee
divided in sentiment. Being slave owners, like the other Indians
removed from the southern states, and surrounded by southern influ-
ences, the agents in charge being themselves southern sympathizers,
a considerable party in each of the tribes was disposed to take active
part with the Confederacy. The old Ridge part}', headed by Stand
Watie and supported by the secret secession organization known as
the Knights of the Golden Circle, declared for the Confederacy.