Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1857-01-02


Judges did not abuse their trusts, and the
people had few difficulties to settle, few
complaints to make of each other. The
active settlers were Of industrious habits
and quiet disposition, generally sober and
moral
Rowing adventures, and refugees from
justice, absconding doctors and mischief
makers, will find their way to new and re-
tired settlements; but if only few infu-
entail and faithful citizens discountenance
them and rebuke their evil practices, 1.-THE
wicked will fee," even from such hiding
places in the wilderness, though no pursn-
ers be near at hand.
One of the very best elements of our free
popular government, was expressly set
forth in the Compact of Marlborough,
namely: the authority reserued to the people
at the various Stations to remove their
Judge of Judges for unfaithfulness or mis-
conduct, and to elect others to fill such va
cancies.
This tribunal exercised the prerogatives
of government in their fullest extent, with
the single specified exception of inficting
capital punishment They called out the
militia Of the Stations, "to repel or pursue
the enemy"-impressed horses for such SER
vice as public exigency might demand
levied fines, payable in money or provisions
entered up judgments and awarded exc
cutions-granted letters of administration
upon estates of deceased persons, taking
bonds, payable to Col. James Robertson,
Chairman of Committee" &c.
The following paragraphs certainly will
be read with much interest and proud APP
probation:
"That as this settlement is in its infancy,
unknown to government, and not included
within any county in North Carolina, the
State to which it belongS-So as to derive
the advantages of those wholesome and
salutary laws for the protection and bene-
fit of its citizens, WE find ourselves con-
strained from necessity to adopt this tenn
porary method Of restraining the licentious,
and supplying, by unanimous consent, the
blessings flowing from a just and equitable
overnment-declaring and promising that
no action or complaint shall be hereafter
instituted or lodged in any Court of Rec
ord within this State or elsewhere, for any
thing done, or to be done, in consequence
of the proceedings of the said Judges or
General ArbtratorS so to be chosen and
established by this our Association.
THAT as the wEILrBEING of this country
depends, under Dicine Providence, on anan-
unity of sentiment and concurrence in meas
ureS-and as clashing and various inter
ests and opinions, without being under some
restraint, will most certainly produce con-
fusion discord and almost certain ruin-so
we think it our duty to associate, and here
by form ourselves into one society for the
benefit of present and future settlers, and
until the full and proper exercise of the
laws Of our country can be in use, and the
Powers of Government eXerted among us:
owe DO MOST sOLEMNLY AND sACREDLY de-
clare and promise each other, that we will
faithfully and punctually adhere to, per-
form and abide by, this our Association,
and at all times, if need be, compel by our
united force due obedience to these our
Rules and Regulations
an testimony whereof, we have hereun.
to subscribed our names in token of our
entire appreciation Of the measures adopt
ed"
Such is the patriotic; eloquent and beau
tiful conclusion of the articles of Associa-
ton of Ist of May, 1880.
On the 18th of the same month, "the
additional resolutions and further associa-
tlon were entered into"-of which we have
already given the substance, and at the
close of which are the $50 signatures.
Much has been said and written of the
Anomalous government of FARMLAND" in
East Tennessee; and the account of it forms
the most interesting chapter in the can
nails of Tennessee its noble Cover
nor, Gen. Sevier-in labors more abund-
ant, in sacrifices more liberal, in perils more
frequent and hazardous than any and all
other men, for the service of that people,
was outlawed by North Carolina, seized
and Spirited away" as criminal-re-cap-
tured 10y his frends-elevated to the high
est Office by the will of the people-urged,
when in old age and feeble health, by the
General Government, upon a mission of
peace to the war-lke Cherokees-where he
sickened and died-and where no stone tells
his resting place. lie truly wasted his life
in the service of Tennessee; and the State
owes it to herself, and to the encourage
ment of patriotism, to recover bis remains,
and erect suitable monument to his mem
DRY.
We said that much has been written and
published relative to that Emporium in I'm
perio," the estate of Frankland;" but here
we recover the history of State as pecu
liar and selfconstituted as that-six years
earlier in date--in active existence for sew
eral years; but of which the historians of
Tennessee have had but very little knowl
edge. Haywood alludes to it on page l26,
and Others have copied what he there says;
and thus the most interesting incidents in
Middle Tennessee history are left unpub-
| lished-unknown
The three years following the first set
Elements on the Cumberland, were years of
great privation, losses and gloom-insomuch
that most of the Stations were abandoned,