Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-01-27

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ways generous. The party of the Cherokees
, which had left their homes and Joined the
} Ohio expedition, found that they we're treated
with neglect. Cut to the heart, they deter
mined to return to their homes. No provis'
ion was made for them. They were in a
starving condition. As they passed through
Virginia on their way home, they supplied
their wants from the country through which
they passed. In. the expedition, they had
lost their horses. The horses of the Virgin.
ians were unceremoniously taken to supply
their present wants. The Indians did not have
very correct ideas with regard to property.
This was especially the case with regard to
animals. Possession of an animal amounted
to ownership. The Virginians, in an ill-fated
moment, urged on by hasty resentment, set
upon these tired and famishing bands of the
common allies of the English, and in three en-
counters killed fourteen and took several pris-
oners. The remnant of the party returned to
their homes in the vicinity of Fort Prince,
Georgia, on the head waters of the Savannah.
The tale of their suffering was soon spread
abroad. The shrieks and cries of those who
had been robbed of their relations, echoed
from mountain top to mountain top, and
through the winding valleys of the Toogaloo.
"The blood of your murdered kinsmen calls
for vengeance" was proclaimed by proud
chiefs, and the young braves were sent out to
retaliate. The war belt was sent from town
to town. The region of country which had
enjoyed almost uninterrupted peace, now be-
came the theatre of fearful hostilities. The
French learned the existing state of things,
and persuaded the Cherokees that the inten-
ton of the English was to kill all the Indian
men and make slaves of the women and chill
dren.
The aged chiefs, who had long known the
English, and from whom the Cberokees had
received many and valuable favors, we're op-
posed to war. Even the young warriors
would have laid down the tomahawk, when
they had avenged the blood of their murder
ed kinsmen, had they been dealt with pru'
IDENTIFY.
Fort Loudon, on the Tennessee, was garri-
soned with two hundred men under the COM
mand of Captains Demere and Stuart. Some
soldiers having gone out into the woods to
hunt for game, were attacked by the Indians
and several killed.
Captain Cotymore was in command Of fort
Prince George. He communicated with Gov
ernor Lyttleton at Charlestown. The hazard
GUS condition of the northern frontier Of the
province was made known. Governor Lyt-
tleton, either fearing confederation of the
Creeks and Cherokees, or anxious to make a
gorgeous display of his military talents, sum-
moned the militia of the country to arms.
The neighboring colonies were solicited to
send him aid. The banks of the Congaree
were appointed as place of general rendez-
yous. The signal guns we're fred. and the
colony began to prepare for war. Soon the
Cherokees learned that Governor Lyttleton
contemplated invading their territory. In or
der that the disastrous consequences Of war
might be avoided, delegation of thirty chiefs
set out from their mountain homes to entreat
for pardon. The Cherokee nation, with only a
few exceptions, were still the warm and trusty
friends of the English. When these chiefs,
of whom Oconostata was the principal, ar
rived at Charleston, Governor Lyttleton re-
ceived them with no small amount of empty
parade. He recounted, in threatening tone,
the injuries which the Cherokees had done to
the frontier settlers. When Oconostata at
tempted to reply, the Governor assumed a
dictatorial attitude, and told the chief he
would shear no talk from him." The chiefs
were told to march with his army, and, by so
doing, not a hair of their heads would be
hurt.
Fourteen hundred militia assembled at the
Congaree. Here Lyttleton showed bis little
ness of soul. Twenty-eight of the chiefs were
put under guard, two having previously fled.
The proud chiefs now showed by their grim
and sulen countenances, that they felt that
they had been dealt with contrary to promise.
On arriving in the nsighborhood of their prin.
cipal town, the twenty.eight chiefs were con-
fined IN miserable hut, scarcely sufficiently
large to contain, with any degree of comfort,
one.fourth of their number. Lyttleton, as if
about to make treaty Of peace with some of
the enlighted nations of Europe, sent for the
old chief Attakulla-kulla. From this old
and trusty friend of the colony, Governor
Lyttleton demanded that the twenty-four in
dividuals who had been guilty of perpetrating
the wrongs complained of, should be delivered
up to him that he might put them to death,
or else he would hold the chiefs in his posses
sion as hostages.
The old Indian knew nothing of the GUS
toms respecting hostages. Although chief,
he knew that such was the nature of the gov
ernment of the tribes, that one individual
had no control over another. In despair Of
eHecting anything toward peace, he retired,
determined to await the result as brave old
man. Scarcely had he gone; until Governor
Lyttleton recalled him, and succeeded in hav-
ing a treaty signed, in which was embodied a
number of articles which the chiefs either did
not understand, or were forced to sign from
the necessitous condition in which they were
at the time. In the meantime, some of the
perpetrators of the violent deeds complained
of, were delivered up to Lyttleton. By him,
an equal number of hostages were released.