He is represented with a table containing his
alphabet. The missionaries were not slow to employ it. It was
arranged with the Cherokee, and English sounds and definitions.
Rev. S.A. Worcester endeavored to get the outlines of its grammar,
and both he and Mr. Boudinot prepared vocabularies of it, as did
many others. In this way, by having more and better observers, we
know more of this language than many others, and affinities have
been traced between it and some others, supposed to be radically
different, which would have appeared in the case of some others,
had they been as fully or correctly written.
Besides the Scriptures, a very considerable number of books were
printed in it, and parts of several different newspapers existing
from time to time; also almanacs, songs, and psalms.
During the closing portion of his life, the home of Se-quo-yah was
near Brainerd, a mission station in the new nation. Like his
countrymen, he was driven an exile from his old home, from his
fields, work-shops, and orchards by the clear streams flowing from
the mountains of Georgia. Is it wonderful if such treatment should
throw a sadder tinge on a disposition otherwise mild, hopeful, and
philosophic?
One of his sons is a very fair artist, using promiscuously pencil,
pen, chalk, or charcoal. He served, as a private soldier, in the
Union army in the late war, and there, in his quarters, made many
sketches.
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