Old News Stories Cherokee Phoenix Loses Printer, 1831 From The Cherokee Phoenix New Echota Feb. 19, 1831 This week we present to our readers but half a sheet–the reason is, one of our printers has left us; and we expect another (who is a white man) to quit us very soon, either to be dragged to the Georgia penitentiary for a term not less than four years, or for his personal safety, to leave the nation, and us to shift for ourselves as well as we can. And our friends will please to remember, we cannot invite another white printer to our assistance without subjecting him to the same punishment; and to have in our employ one who has taken the oath to support the laws of Georgia which now oppress the Cherokees, is utterly out of the question. Thus is the liberty of the press guaranteed by the Constitution of Georgia. But we will not give up the ship while it is afloat. We have intelligent youths in the nation, and we hope before long to make up our loss. Old News Stories
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