Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-10-16
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE
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CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
They took George May field, the son
of Switzerland Mayfield, prisoner, and
led him to the Greek nation, where he
remained ten or twelve years. The
Indians made no attempt upon the
station but went off with their prisoner
and the guns they had taken. Those
who were in the fort removed to Capt.
Rains, near Nashville, their situation
being deemed too exposed and danger.
GUS for them to remain where they
were with any hope of safety. The In
dians who committed these massacres
were Creeks. In the same year, in the
spring season, at Browns station, on
the west fork of Mill Creek, mile
below May field 9 station, the Indians
attacked and killed four boys. two of
them sons of Stowball, one son of
John Brown, and one the son of Joseph
Denton. The people who were living
at that station Immediately with.
drew to Rains station. In the same
year, after the boys we're killed, James
Haggard and his wife were killed at
Browns station. and a t the same time
and place, a man of the name of
Adams. A few days after this John
Haggard was killed, and then it was
that the station was broken up and re-
moved to Rains. In the month of Au-
gust Of this year, convention of dele
gates FROM all the counties of the State
met at Hillsboro to consider of the
proposed federal constitution, and re-
Jected it by great majority, the mem
bers from the counties of Davidson
and Sumner, as we'll as those from the
counties on the waters of Holston
being amongst the dissentients.
In November. 1888, the increased
population of Davidson again called
for its division, and new county with
the name of Tennessee was taken from
the wastern part of it. The old county
OF Davidson was divided by line be-
ginning on the Virginia line; thence
south along Sumner county to the di.
viding ridge between Cumberland
River and Red River, thence westw ard.
ly along said ridge to the head of the
main south branch Sycamore Creek;
thence down the said branch to the
mouth thereof; then due south across
Cumberland River to Davidson county
line. All that part of Davidson which
lay west was erected In county by
the name of Tennessee. Officers OF all
sorts, both civil and military, were di.
rected to be appointed. and courts to
be held for the administration and
execution of the laws. In their Nov
ember session of 1888, they erected the
counties of Davidson. Sumner and
Tennessee into superior court district,
and appointed superior courts to be
holden therein. It was usual in the
Assembly of North Carolina on the
third reading of bill for the estab-
lishment of district or county, and
sometimes at the second reading, for
the speaker to call for the name with
which the blank left for the purpose
was to be Q filled up, at which call the
name was given by the advocate and
father of the bill. Upon the passage
OF this bill the name was called for and
the name Of Nero given. It was re-
ceived without opposition; the leading |
members of the house being probably |
acquainted with the motives which |
dictated this nomination, made no OBJ.
lection, and others, without the same |
knowledge, followed their example.
But some who were not so we'll in
formed as to be able to see the ground |
work of this procedure, took offence at |
1t. To such men 1t seemed to be as
strange, as unexampled, that the name
of an officer of foreign government
who was not, and never had been In
our service, should be selected .as the
favorite whose name should be per-
petuated on our public records, and
that 1t should be given to great po-
litical section of country, which might
perhaps sustain that name for many
ages. They wished to know the mean
ing of this phenomenon, not having
yet learned, that political ends are
liable to be defeated, by a publication
of the means used to attain them. Not
receiving satisfaction, they argued on
the basis of conjecture. Don Estephan
Nero was Colonel In the service of
the King of Spain, and Governor of
Orleans, was an enlightened man, of
engaging department, and of very
benevolent heart, but so were ten
thousand other foreigners who had not
been honored with any mark of pe-
culiar esteem. And again, why select
a Spaniard of 80 much distinction at
the very time when that nation un-
justly WITHHELD from us the free navi-
CATION of the Mississippi, and when
this very officer was the one chosen
by the Spanish court to see that exclu.
sion completely executed. And this
not all; at the very time, too, when it
was proposed by Spain, and had been
submitted to Congress by their minis.
ter negotiating with Spain. that the
United States should relinquish the
navigation of the Mississippi for twenty
five years, a measure which If acceded