Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-09-01
may psss inspection, the hundred, 10 shil-

may psss inspection, the hundred, 10 shil-
lings, and so on in proportion" "
Afterward 100000 in silver from the
mint of Charles Robinson was issued.
None of these coin are known to be in
existence at this day.
Among the lawless element with
which General Sewer had to contend
were the counterfeiters-not of the sill.
yer coin, but of the coon skin currency.
1t passed from hand to hand in bales,
from which the tail protruded to desig-
nate its kind, it was not long before il
was learned that the tail cf an otter
could be affixed to the skin of fox
with little danger Of discovery.
North Cardinals course toward the
new State was characteristic and en-
tirely void of credit to herself. She
had cast her overmountain citizens of
without so much as God speed you. y
Yet as soon as they gave evidence of
ability for self government she hasten
ed to convene her Legislature and re-
peal the session act of 1884, and her
Governor issued proclamation especi-
ally directed to John Sewer and few
Others, warning them not to set up a
government in opposition to the mother
State. North Cardinals s attitude was
ridiculous in the light of subsequent
events, but she had law ON her side
against only justice on the side of the
Franks. J." And so the State of
Franklin, after an honorable and
prosperous career of just three years to
a day, passed quietly and peacefully
out of existence. But the Franks
remained, and it is their descendants
who today oppose the military author
ity of Tennessee.
Sewer was for a time outlawed by
the State of North Carolina and pro-
claimed traitor. He was arrested by
strategy at the house of friend and
carried off to Morgantown for trial be-
fore biased judge and packed jury.
This meant certain death. His roman
tic rescue by Tall" Jim Cosby and his
own manly sons as he stood in the pris-
oner's dock, is one of the most thrilling
events ever narrated in song or story.
He was never rearrested, but at the
next election was chosen to represent
Washington Districtin the State Senate
of North Carolina, and he went boldly
to Tarboro and took his seat. The next
year he was elected to Congress, being
the first member of that body who
lived west of the Alleghenies. When
the Territory of Tennessee was organ
lied the President appointed William
Blount Governor, but as soon as it be-
came State the people unanimously
elected Sewer, who served three terms,
being excluded from fourth consecu-
tive election by the constitution, which
he himself had drafted. At the expi-
ration of two years he was again cho-
sen and twice reelected. He afterward
served two terms in Congress from Ten
nessee and was elected to third, but
never took his seat, being at the time,
as stated above, on mission to the
Greek Indians to treat with them con-
cerning the boundary line of Georgia.
He died on September "a, 1915, very
while at an Indian green
corn dance, and was buried near the
present capital of Alabama. His ashes
now rest in the court house yard in
Knoxville, where they were deposited
with military honors in 1899.
1t is of such blood that the miners of
East Tennessee are constituted today.
1t would do violence to the law of he
redity to say that they will readily
yield to State or even National author.
ity.
1t is worthy of notice that the first
militia officer sent against them was
Colonel Granville Sewer, descendant
of the hero of Kings Mountain.