Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-12-04

should be laid before the great council
of the nation, who would report their
answer. But they artfully kept up the
belief that the proposal would be em-
braced, till he left the territory on the
7th of June, 1903.
On the 2Sth of March, 1893, to obvlate
the designs Cexpected from the great
number of Creeks who had lately
passed the lower towns to fall on tho
frontiers of Cumberland, he had di-
rected full company of mounted in
fantry to be ordere into actual service
from the militia of Nero district, to
consist of eighty men, exclusive of Of
ticers, to waylay the Indian paths
leading to the settlements, and to ex-
plore the woods where their principal
camps might probably be found, within
the limits of fifty miles from the set
tlement, and to treat as enemies such
Indians as they might find within
those limits, excepting women and
children, and to 20 well armed, each
man with a good .tirelock, and such
other arms as he should think prop.
er. They were to be discharged
on the 14th of May, unless the danger
should continue, in which case Gen.
Robertson was at liberty to keep them
for two months, or discharge them and
order out another, and these compa
nies were authorized to follow incur.
sive parties to the Tennessee. The Span
iards began to advise the Indians
against war with the United States,
and Gov. Gayoso wrote in very friendly
terms to Gov, Blount. disavowing any
share or part iu melting the Indians
to war. Panton was refugee tory,
and it was considered by the Governor
as ground of complaint that he
shogld be entertained by the Spaniards,
with the mischievous inclinatiops to.
wards the United States, which he was
known to possess. Small parties of
Creeks now passed and repassed thro'
the lower towns every day. They car.
ried with them the scalps of the people
killed or the Cumberland, in February;
and small parties of Cherokees were
equally engaged in the same practices.
About the and of May, 1893, three
white men who could never be disoov.
cred, came to and fred upon three In
dians, two Chickasaws and one Chero
kee, who were on visit to Gov. Blount,
and had gone to see their horses in the
woods, six hundred yards from his
house. They wounded one of the
Chickasaws of the name of Morris, who
died in few hours. The Cherokee
was supposed to be the object, but he
escaped. Morris was honored with
pompous funeral, by way of soothing
the anguish of the Chickasaws. The
people had so long suffered the un-
ceasing cruelties of the Indians, that
they were now almost ready to throw
off the restraints which government
imposed upon them, and at all hazards
to provide for their own security. The
supineness Of the government was uni.
yersally clamored against, and the
confidence of the people in its measures,
was visibly abating. 1t was bitterly
complained of, that six hundred Creeks
should be on their march to attack the
people Of Cumberland, and that no
force should be ordered to oppose them,
and the citizens should suffer innumer-
able injuries from the savages, and
that no plan should be formed for their
relief. Gen. Sewer informed the Gov
ernor, though he was sorry to do SO,
that the warm friends of the present
government were getting tired of it,
that clamors against it were loud in
all parts of the district, that the dis
satisfaction Of the people was extreme,
and that those who by arguments
attempted to defend the measures of
the government, were treated with
rudeness. AS soon as it was known
that Gillian and his son were killed,
Capt Beard was ordered to pursue with
fifty mounted infantry, and to scour
the Cumberland Moutain. The people
were now in the daily habit of saying
their rulers were not to be relied on for
protection, and that their sufferings
were not to end but in their death or
removal from the country.
On Saturday the 1st of June, 1893, a
party of ten Indians, attacked Hol.
mack's Station, on Bull run. near
where Thomas and James Gillian were
killed. but was relieved by party of
Capt. Boards mounted infantry.
On the 9th of June, party of Indi.
ans came to the plantation of Mr..
Woods, and stole six horses. Captain
Cox raised party of men and pursued
them,
A few days after Gov. Blount's de
parture for Philadelphia, which was on
the 7th of June, 1893, Capt. Boards g
men. whom he collected TO follow the
Indians, who killed Gillian and his
son, to the number of fifty six, came
with him on the morning of the 18th
of June about the break of day and
made an attack on the Hanging Nav e
family, and other Indians who were
invited there by the orders OF govern
ment. Major King and Daniel Car.
michael, frequently employed in the
service of the United States to transact