Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-10

perfect piece, as its warmest advocates
themselves said in the convention.
Both they and its enemies, meant to
inspect every paragraph narrowly, and
what upon mutual deliberation ap.
peared good, to receive, and by ma
iority of votes confirm, and what did
not to reject. For the true light in
which it should be viewed, was as they
declared, that every sentence was
mere proposal unfinished, ,unconfirmed,
and not to be established, till the
whole house after due examination
and debate upon it, had approved of
it, And, said they, it must appear that
the loud and bitter outcry has been
raised against the report and its friends,
is not like the friendly criticism of
loving citizens, but resembles the ad-
vantages which enemies take of each
other. and the use they make of them,
when excited by malice and bitter
enmity. They besought the public to
lay aside prejudice and to search hon
estly for truth, and not quibbling de-
fects, particularly weighing every part
in connexion with the whole, whence
it might be seen that the greater part
and substance of the report of the
committee, contains principles, pro.
visions and restrictions, which secure
the poor and the ruled from being
trampled upon by the rich and the
rulers; also, their property and money
from being taken away, to support the
extravaganza of the great men. And
that it is full of that which tends to
free them from the prevailing enor-
nous wickedness, and to make the
citizens virtuous. And that 1t is we'll
calculated to open the eyes of the peo.
pie, to look upon the proceedings of
the public, and to know and judge for
themselves when their rights and privi-
leges are enjoyed or infringed, and
therefore suitable to remove ignorance
from the country; is as beneficial to
men who wish to live upon the people,
as ignominious in the Church of Rome
to support the Pope and his clergy.
Then follows in their public address
the constitution which the committee
recommended in their report.
The same convention which estab
lished the constitution of North Caro-
lima for the State of nkland, sent
William Cooke, Esquire, with memo:
rial to Congress, together with the con.
stitution they had agreed to, and with
an application to be admitted into the
Union. Congress gave no ear to the
application, and Mr.. Cooke returned
without effecting any of the objects of
his mission.
In this year, 1885, the Assembly of
Georgia, by act passed for the purpose,
established county by the name of
Houston, opposite the Indian town
Nikajack, in the bend of Tennessee,
opposite the Muscle Shoals, including
all the territory which belonged to
Georgia, or the north side of the Ten
nessee. They appointed COL Hord,
Col. Downs, Mr.. Lindsay, John Donal.
son, and Col. John Sewer, to act as
com missioners, with authority to Or
ganize the new county. They opened
the land office there, appointed Col.
John Donaldson Surveyor, and author
lied the issuing of warrants. The
commissioners with eighty or ninety
men, descended the river to the point
where it was intersected by the State
line. They appointed military officers
and Justices of the Peace, and elected
Valentine Sewer, the brother of Gov.
Sewer, to represent them in the Cen
eral Assembly of Georgia. The land
warrants were signed by John Donal
son and John Sewer, and were dated
the 21st December, 1856. After re-
naming there fortnight, dreading the
hostile appearance which the Indians
manifested, they broke up the settle.
ments and withdrew. Zacharah Cox
was with them, who with two others,
of the name of Smith, and two of the
name of Bean, had been sent by Col.
Wade Hampton, to explore the county.
Valentine Sewer went to the Assembly
OF Georgia, to take his seat but was
not received. Col. Hampton then had
land warrants from South Carolina,
with which he intended to cover the
lands to the distance of several miles
from the North Carolina line, contend
ing in behalf of South Carolina, that
the head branches of the Savannah
did not reach the North Carolina line
by several miles, and that line due
west from the head to the Mississippi,
was the boundary of Georgia. This
claim was afterwards abandoned, and
Col. Hampton failed in the attempt to
obtain his titles.
Con tinued next week.
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