Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-17

pohoiai AooeLhDiy vi NOTIn CdTOllnd,
to be held at Fdyetville in November
Col. Upton was elected Senator, and
James Stuart and Richard White were
elected members of the House of Com
mons. At this election. such persons
as chose to accept of the terms held
out by North Carolina in their act OF
1885, were invited to signify the same,
by enrolling their names, which many
of them did. Opposition to the new
State of Franklapd, from this time put
on more solemn and determined aspect
than it ever had done before.
On the 26th of August, 1856, John
Houston, Esquire, the Governor of
Georgia, appointed Governor Sewer,
by commisson, to be the Brigadier
General for the District of Tennessee,
formed for the defence of that State,
and for repelling any hostile invasion.
Preparatory to the treaty of Hope
we'll, which the Cherokees made with
the United States, they refrained in
great measure, both before and for
some time after the treaty, from incur
sions into the frontier settlements on
the waters of Holston. That treaty
proposed to give peace to all the Chero-
KEGS, but they soon began to believe
that the gift which they had received
was not of much value, and shortly
became tired of the quietude derived
from it. In the spring of the year
1885, they made open war upon those
settlements. They attacked the house
of Bran, on Bever Creek, in the sec.
tion of country which is now q part of
Knox County, and killed two men.
Several parties were raised and set out
in pursuit of them. Amongst others,
Governor Sewer raised a volunteer
company and followed them. The
troops assembled at Houston's Station,
and marched across Tennessee River,
at the Island Town, and thence crossed
by the Tellico Plains over the Unaka
Mountain, to Hiwassee; they there de.
stroyed three Indian towns called the
Valley towns, and killed fifteen Indians
and encamped in town in the vicinity.
The spies discovered large trail, and
reported to the commanding officers;
the troops were Immediately put in mo
ton and moved to the place where the
trail was discovered; there council of
the officers was held to determine
whether it was proper to follow the
trail or not. The result was that the
troops were marched back to their for
mer encampment. 1t was ascertained,
from the best information, that John
Watts, at the head of one thousand
Indians, was endeavoring to draw
Sewer and his troops into narrow de.
file of rocks. Considering existing cir,
cumstances, it was thought most pru.
dent to return home with the troops,
and to procure reinforcement, his
corps consisting at this time of not
more than one hundred and sixty men.
They returned home by the same route
they had come.
In this year taxes were imposed by
both Governments, and paid to neither,
the people not knowing, as was pre-
tended, which had the better right to
receive them; and neither Govern.
ment was forward in overruling the
plea, for fear of giving offence to those
who could at pleasure transfer their al
legiance. Members of Assembly were
elected in this year, 1856, for the three
old counties, and were sent to the As
sembly of North Carolina, which sat
at Fayetteville, in the month of Nov
ember. In this session they divided
the County of Sullivan, and out of a
part of it erected the County of Haw-
kins. The divisional line began where
the boundry line between the common.
wealth of Virginia and the State of
North Carolina crosses the north fork
of Holston River; thence down said
fork to its junction with the main
Holston River; thence across said River,
due south to the top of Bays Mount ntain
thence along the top of said mountain
to the top of the dividing ridge, be.
tween the waters of Holston River and
French Broad River, to its junction
with Helston River; thence down the
said River Holston to its junction with
the Tennessee River; thence down the
same to the suck, where said River
runs through the Cumberland Noun.
tain; thence along the top of said
Mountain, to the aforesaid boundary
line; and thence along said line to the
beginning. All that part of the settle
ments lying to the west of the north
fork of Holston was erected into the
County of Hawkins; they appointed
justices and militia officers for the
county, and appointed times for hold
ing the County Courts, and they had
under consideration the measures
which were to be adopted in relation
to the revolters. At this critical con-
juncture appeared William Cooke, Es.
Guire, on a mission from the western
counties, and at bis entreaty he was
heard at the bar of the House of Com
mons. In speech of some hours, he
pathetically depicted the miseries of
his distressed countrymen; he traced
the motives of their separation to the
difficult and perilous condition in
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