Because the settlers suffered so much in their efforts to establish the states, they see it as they deserve to be free from Britain. Also, they declare independence because Britain has violated certain aspects of the colonies way of life. The Declaration of Independence has a section in it where it lists all of these violations, making it sound as though America was beaten up on the playground by the school bully, simply because America didn't fork over its lunch money to Britain. Its tone wants to sound helpless and abused, therefore putting across a message that America should " dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another." The tone of the Cherokee Memorials is slightly different because the tone that it wants to convey is different than that of the Declaration of Independence. The Cherokee Memorials wants to appeal to the emotions of its audience. It states, "It is evident from facts deducible from history, that the Indians were found here by the white man." The quote continues on saying that they were living peacefully on the land when the white man arrived, and that even though they claimed the land for their own, it was not theirs to claim. The land had been given to the Indians by their ancestors long, long ago. The Cherokee Memorials" tone is different from the Declaration of Independences" in that the Indians rights were not even considered or acknowledged in the process of colonizing the New World. Although both documents had slightly different tones, they were both formal and properly written documents.
During the time that both of the documents were created, one might have thought that the Native Americans were uncivilized, uneducated and not capable of creating a document suitable to submit to the government of the United States. But, when reading the document, one finds words that might only be found in a highly educated individual's vocabulary.
