Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-31


from the very generous and liberal
offers prolfered us we are confident we
shall receive every assistance. Late
in December, 1887, Governor Sewer
had it in contemplation to march
against the Creeks, and issued orders
for the embodying of troops. He con-
tinued to be addressed at this time by
Doctor Franklin as the Governor of the
State Of Frankland. The above men.
toned act, passed by the Legislature
of Georgia, directed the raising of
three thousand men, and empowered
the executive to call for fifteen hun
dIed more from Frankland, and the
Governor wished to know whether it
might be depended upon, that fifteen
hundred would be raised in Frankland,
and at what time they would be ready
to take the field. The bend of Tennessee
was allotted for the men to be raised in
Frankland, and to supply the bounties
to be given to them for entering into
the service.
In the month September, in the year
1887 the Legislature of Frankland met
for the last time in Greenevile. John
Menifee was Speaker of the House of
Representatives and Charles Robinson
Speaker of the Senate. Several bills
passed both Houses, which were chiefly
important amendments of the laws of
North Carolina. One, however, at
trated notice, the object of which was
to provide ways and means to descend
the river. and take possession of the
bend of Tennessee, under claims which
Gov Sewer and others had on this coun-
try. The Legislature also authorized
the election of two Representatives to
attend the Legislature of North Caro-.
lima, to make such presentations as
might be thought proper. Judge David
Campbell and Landon Carter were
elected to this Office. Judge Campbell
also acted in the Legislature of North
Carolina, at Tarboro, as a member of
that Assembly.
At this session, they also opened the
land office, directing the officers to take
peltry instead of money, but before any
entries were made the authority of the
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Government of Frankland expired.
The western counties at the stated
time OF election in this year, 1857,
elected members and sent them to the
General Assembly of North Carolina,
at Tarboro, which commenced a session
there on the 18th of November that
ended on the ped Of December. David
son sent James Robertson and Robert
Hays; Greene was represented by
David Campbell and Daniel Kennedy:
Washington by John Upton, James
Stuart and John Blair: Hawkins by
Nathaniel Henderson and William
Marshall; Sullivan by Joseph Martin,
John Scott and George Maxwell. These
members returned home about the 4th
of January, 1857. This Assembly ex-
tended their former acts Of pardon and
oblivion, to all who desired to avail
themselves of its advantages, and fully
restored them to the privileges of citi.
zens. They directed all suits to be dis.
missed which had been commenced for
the recovery of any penalty or forfeit
ure incurred by non compliance With
the revenue laws, and gave further
time of three months, in which those
might give in lists of their taxable
property for the year 1857 who had
failed to do it before, By this Assem-.
bly, David Campbell was elected a
Judge of the Superior Court for the
District of Washington, ut Jonesboro.
Col. White, afterwards Gen. White,
who favored the Government Of Frank.
land, whose yea wasye and nay. nav,
| throughout his whole life, deemed the
acceptance of this Office by Campbell
an unpardonable dereliction of duty.
Meeting Campbell on the road. as be
returned home from Tarboro, he up.
braided the latter with q desertiop of
his friends in very undisguised terms of
reprobation.
East Tennessee in the year 1887,
though miserably entangled in other
difficulties, was not entirely free from
the inqietude of some restless spirits in
relation to the Spaniards, any more
than West Tennessee was in 1883, when
Col. Robertson was necessited to con-
tradict the reports which had reached
the Baron de Carondalet, Of designs
entertained by the people of Cumber-
land, to make descent upon the Span
ish possessions on the Mississippi. Some
ambitious men in East Tennessee, had
probably proposed and canvassed the
same project, and had deemed it so far
practicable as to resolve on its eXecu-
tion, so far as depended on themselves,
to bring it about. They resented the
occlusion of the Mississippi, against
our commerce by the Spanish authoIi-
ties, and were exasperated by the pro-
posal of our minister, delegated to
treat with the Spanish Court, that the
navigation of that river should be re-
signed for twenty five years, and the
more so, as Congress had made the
proposal a subject for deliberation.
The treaty made in 1884, in the fort at
Pensacola, from the uncommon nature
of some of the articles, induced the be-
| lief that the Spanish Governors had