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his hymn & sing it, Joined by his audience and pray to his heavenly father with great propriety & devotion. The influence of Religion on the life of the Indians is powerfull & lasting. I have an uncle who was given to all the vices of savagism drunkness, fornication and roguery & he is now tho' power in this worlds goods but rich in goodness & makes his living by hard labor & is in every respect an honest praying christian.

  In respect to marriage, we have no law regulating it & polygamy is stilled allowed to native Cherokees. In [[unclear] of morality away. The new, the saved among the women & a respect for their characters & matrimonial happiness is fast consuming this last vestage of our ignorance. We attempted to pass a law regulating marriage but as nearly all the members of our Legislature, tho convinced strike out: had been of the propriety had been married under the old existing ceremony, were afraid it would reflect dishonor on them, it failed. This? will effect the desired change in this system & it