From the Cherokee Nation: Proclamation of Chief John Ross – Object #3

Secession of the Cherokee Nation.
CHIEF JOHN ROSS SUCCUMBS TO THE SECESSION PRESSURE.
St. Louis, Oct. 1.—Rev. Mr. Robinson, a missionary teacher in the Cherokee Nation, has arrived in this city. He reports that Chief John Ross has finally succumbed pressure. On August 20th he called his council together at Tahlequah, and the Secession is a message re mending the severance of their connection with the United States, and an alliance with the Southern Confederacy. The Council approved of the recommendation, and appointed commissioners to make a treaty of alliance with the Southern Government. The Confederate commissioners assumed the payment of the annuities heretofore received by the Cherokees from our Government. The Creek Indians have raised 1,000 men for service in the Confederate army, and the Cherokees have formed a home guard 1,200 strong. It appears that the troops by. Ben McCulloch, after the battle of Spring posted on the border of the Cherokee Nation to intimidate the Council and force John Ross to yield to the demands of the rebels.