Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-11-20
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.

were forced to retreat; the Indian.
took off one hundred and forty pack
horses.
On Saturday the 22d of Decem ber
1892, party of Indians went to the
house of Mr.. Richardson in jefferson
County, on Little Pigeon, twenty five
miles from Knoxville, and killed Mrs.
Richardson, Mrs. Foster, Miss Schulz
and two children, with tomahawks
and war club, the latter of which
they left in the house; robbed the
house and went off. They had lain in
wait upon hill which overlooked
Richardson 8 door, many hours, and
took the opportunity of his absence for
only half an hour, to massacre his
family. On Monday the 31st of Decem
Der, the Indians drove eighteen head
of horses from Big Pigeon, jefferson
County, near where Richardson 8 fam
lily were killed, and wantonly killed
several cattle and hogs; these Indians
were from Nickajack. On the next
Sunday, John Bartram, in the same
neighborhood, in arch of his horses,
saw two Indians attempting to catch
them. upon which he fired at one who
dropped his arms, but it was feared he
did not kill him.
Mrs. Crockett and eight children were
killed in December 1902, on the from
tier of Georgia, by the Creeks; the
white people now learned that Can't
Henley was prisoner at Willstown,
i'll the Cherokee nation.
On the 25th of December, in the year
1902, messengers from Watts arrived
at Gov. Blount's house with what they
called peace talks for him. The dis.
tressed people and particularly those
of the frontiers, were pleased with the
intelligence. They did not reflect, that
preceding treaties had only thrown the
white people off their guard, and caused
them to be more exposed than other.
wise they would have been.
Let us now turn back TO the begin
ming of May in this year, and explore
the sources of the disorders into which
the Indian nations were thrown soon
afterwards, and those acts of hostility
which they committed upon our peo-
pie with such fatal frequency, in the
course of this year; for on the Goth of
May, 1893, when the goods were to be
divided amongst the Cherokees, which
were delivered to them pursuant to the
treaty of 1901, Gov. Blount, at the
pressing invitation of the chiefs, went
to Coyatee, where he was received by
the chiefs and two thousand Cherokees.
with all the tokens of respect and JOY,
thatit was possible to manifest. The
chiefs and warriors of the Lower towns
arrived at Coyatee few days before.
They marched in, painted black,
sprinkled over with flour, to signify
that they had been at war, but were
then for peace; they were received by
the other chiefs under the standard of
the United States. In the address of
Gov. Blount to them, he men toned
the massacres which had been lately
committed, and the horses which had
been stolen, and it was with much diff
ficulty he had been able to restrain the
sufferers from taking satisfaction. He
specified the instances and the number
of horses and prisoners which had been
taken; and he stated to them, that it
was necessary that there should be not
only disposition in the chiefs to keep
the treaty unbroken, but restraint of
their people also from the commission
of offenses. The President, he said,
loved the red men, but could not suf
fer their people to kill the white peo.
pie, and yet continue in peace with
them; their young men must be re.
strained. He had ordered, he said, a
part of the militia upon the frontiers
from Holston to Clinch, and up Clinch,
and upon the frontiers to Cumberland,
but they were not ordered into the In.
dian country; the only object of call.
ing them out, being to prevent the bad
Cherokees from coming to the settle
ments of the white people. Their peo-
pie in coming to visit him, he said,
must come to Craig's Station; no one
had been killed in that neig ghborhood,
and the people there were not so much
irritated as in other places; and he in
formed them that the prisoners must
be delivered at the ensuing council at
Estanaula. The Breath" OF Nicka-
jack promised return of the,prisoners,
and to find out who had done the mis-.
chiefs complained of, and to state their
names at the meeting of the council of
Estanaula, and he delivered to the
Governor string of white beads, the
usual token of peace.
The Hanging Nav gave public no.
tice, that the great council was to
meet at Estanaula on the 23d of June,
to hear the report of Gen. Eskaqua, and
of the other agents, and desired that
all the chiefs might be present.
AT this time, it is fact which ought
to be particularly noticed, that Gen.
Eskaqua and John Watts, were so for
ward in promoting the plans of peace,
aud seemed to be so greatly pleased at
the peaceable appearances held by the
chiefs of the Lower towns, that they
were considered and called by the Gov