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Yellow Bird (John Rollin Ridge JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE, Chee-squa-ta-law-ny YELLOW BIRD HDT WHAT? INDEX YELLOW BIRD JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE 1827 March 19, Monday: A group of Viennese music-lovers including Franz Schubert visited the ailing Ludwig van Beethoven on his deathbed (this was the initial and sole meeting of these two composers who had for three full decades shared the same city). John Rollin Ridge (Chee-squa-ta-law-ny, “Yellow Bird”) was born on his father's estate “east of the Oss-te- narly” near New Echota, Georgia, a son of the Cherokee leader John Ridge (Skah-tle-loh-skee, “Yellow Bird”) and a woman of a Yankee New England family he had met while being schooled in Cornwall, Connecticut, Sarah Bird Northrup. HDT WHAT? INDEX YELLOW BIRD JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE 1835 In approximately this year Herman Melville was working for his elder brother as a store clerk and bookkeeper (pending the failure of this brother’s business during the financial crisis of 1837). Andrew Jackson Ridge was born in the eastern Cherokee country, a son of the Cherokee leader John Ridge (Skah-tle-loh-skee, “Yellow Bird”) and a woman of a Yankee New England family he had met while being schooled in Cornwall, Connecticut, Sarah Bird Northrup. He would move west with his parents and after a college course would study law and remove to Austin, Texas where he would get married with Miss Helen Doom. HDT WHAT? INDEX YELLOW BIRD JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE 1839 June 22, Saturday: At the age of 12 John Rollin Ridge (Chee-squa-ta-law-ny, “Yellow Bird”) witnessed his father John Ridge (Skah-tle-loh-skee, “Yellow Bird”) being stabbed to death in their family home on Honey Creek, by a group of 25 tribal political opponents, adherents of the Cherokee leader John Ross (Koo-wi-s-gu- wi, “Mysterious Little White Bird”). He and his mother Sarah Bird Northrup would flee to Fayettesville, Arkansas, where he would receive his initial two years of schooling from Sophia Sawyer. There had been arguments over finances, and as of this day (or perhaps the following day) the Reverend Lemuel Capen resigned as the pastor for the Hawes Place Society of South Boston. For the usual fee the Captain General of Cuba issued fraudulent transportation permits. In total Joseph Cinqué would have been in a slave barracoon of Havana for 10 days. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE LA AMISTAD RACE SLAVERY June 22, Saturday: That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another’s. We see so much only as we possess. We see so much only as we possess. June 22, Saturday: I have within the last few days come into contact with a pure uncompromising spirit, that is somewhere wandering in the atmosphere, but settles not positively anywhere. Some persons carry about them the air and conviction of virtue, though they themselves are unconscious of it — and are even backward to appreciate it in others. Such it is impossible not to love — still is their loveliness, as it were, independent of them, so that you seem not to lose it when they are absent, for when they are near it is like an invisible presence which attends you. HDT WHAT? INDEX YELLOW BIRD JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE 1843 John Rollin Ridge (Chee-squa-ta-law-ny, “Yellow Bird”) continued his schooling, for a couple of years in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, until he fell ill and was obliged to return home to Arkansas. Mary Helen Dunlop has had the following remarks to make about Margaret Fuller’s encounter with non-white Americans in the Midwest, in SIXTY MILES FROM CONTENTMENT: TRAVELING THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN INTERIOR (NY: HarperCollins BasicBooks, 1995, page 101): At Silver Lake, Wisconsin, in 1843, Margaret Fuller and her party, overtaken by a thunderstorm, sought shelter with an encampment of Pottawattami who, Fuller learned later, had returned out of homesickness to visit their former home ground. In their small traveling lodges, many of the Pottawattami lay sick, and as a whole the group was utterly destitute. To Fuller and her friends, however, the Pottawattami displayed only “gentle courtesy” — a quality non-Indians liked to see Indians exhibit. Fuller remarked that “they seemed to think we would not like to touch them: a sick girl in the lodge where I was persisted in moving so as to give me the dry place; a woman with the sweet melancholy eye of the race, kept off the children and wet dogs from even the hem of my garment.” Who did not want to touch whom, however, is not as sharply clear to the reader as it is to Fuller. HDT WHAT? INDEX YELLOW BIRD JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE 1845 John Rollin Ridge (Chee-squa-ta-law-ny, “Yellow Bird”) returned from Massachusetts to Fayettesville, Arkansas to study under the Reverend Cephas Washbourne, missionary to the Cherokees, and then to study law. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft’s ONEÓTA, OR CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RED RACE OF AMERICA FROM ORIGINAL NOTES AND MANUSCRIPTS (New York & London: Wiley & Putnam). THE RED RACE (In about 1851 Henry Thoreau would copy items from this into his Indian Notebook #4.) HDT WHAT? INDEX YELLOW BIRD JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE 1846 November 30, Monday: A Te Deum in A for solo voices, chorus and organ by Felix Mendelssohn was performed for the initial time, in London. John Rollin Ridge (Chee-squa-ta-law-ny, “Yellow Bird”)’s “To a Thunder Cloud” appeared in the Arkansas State Gazette (at this point, as you can see, he was 19 years of age): Thou deep, black cloud, boom on, aye boom! Thy utmost terrors — let them loom To shroud the Earth in august gloom! The body’s knell thy sound may toll, But not the death of man’s high soul. Then boom thou on! — I fear thee not; My name by men may be forgot, My works in cold neglect may rot, But I have now a burning fire Whose flame is lit with wild desire, Which cannot by thy doom expire! Go! Sound the fall of kingdoms’ crown, Of nations crushed and trodden down, Of grandeur cast, of pride o’er-thrown; Go! Sound thy deep-toned trump for worlds That God in Heav’n to ruin hurls, But all in vain thy tempest whirls Around my brow, around my head! Beyond, above thy threatening dread My spirit’s home is fadeless spread! E’en, if thou wert the smoke of Hell, My pride thy roaring could not quell — Eternity! with thee I dwell. HDT WHAT? INDEX YELLOW BIRD JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE 1847 In Missouri, the father of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, age 11, died of pneumonia. In Arkansas, John Rollin Ridge (Chee-squa-ta-law-ny, “Yellow Bird”), who was half Cherokee, got married with a white woman, Elizabeth Wilson (the union would produce a daughter, Alice Ridge, in 1848). May: At the final meeting of the Tropical Emigration Society, some of the members attempted to organize a colony in Texas. Nothing would come of it. John Rollin Ridge (Chee-squa-ta-law-ny, “Yellow Bird”)’s “To a Mocking Bird Singing in a Tree.”: Sing on thou little mocker, sing — Sarcastic Poet of the bowery clime! Though full of scoff thy notes are sweet As ever filled melodious rhyme! I love thee for thy gracefulness, And for thy jollity—such happiness! Oh, I could seize it for my booty But that the deed would make thy music less. Say, now, do not the feathery bands Feel hatred for thy songs which mock their own! And as thou passest by, revile Thee angrily, with envy in their tone? Or, are their little breasts too pure To know the pangs our human bosoms feel? Perhaps they love thee for that same, And from thy sweetness new heart-gushes steal? HDT WHAT? INDEX YELLOW BIRD JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE Upon the summit of yon tree How gaily thou dost sing! how free from pain. Oh; would that my sad heart could bound With half the Eden rapture of thy strain! I then would mock at every tear That falls where sorrow’s shaded fountains flow, And smile at every sigh that heaves In dark regret o’er some bewildering woe. But mine is not thy breast—nor would I place within its little core one sting That goads my own, for all the bliss That heartless robbery of thee Would bring. Ah no, still keep thy music power The ever radiant glory of thy soul, And let thy voice of melody Soar on, as now, abhorrent of control. May be thou sing’st of heaven sometimes, As raptured consciousness vades thy breast; May be of some far home where love O’er bird-land spreads soft cooling shades of rest. If man, whose voice is far less sweet Than thine, looks high for his eternal home, Oh, say, do not thy dreamings too. For some green spot and habitation roam? If living thought can never die, Why should thine own expire? If there is love Within thy heart, it must live on, Nor less than man’s have dwelling-place above; Thy notes shall then be brighter far Than now they be! And I may listen, too, With finer ear, and clearer soul, Beneath a shade more soft, a sky more blue. HDT WHAT? INDEX YELLOW BIRD JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE July 17, Saturday: Per Brigadier General Franklin Pierce’s campaign journal: Camp near San Juan. Started this morning, at four o’clock. Road still heavy, over short, steep hills; progress slow and difficult. Reached Santa Fe, eight miles from Vera Cruz, at eight o’clock, A.M.
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