Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-05-13

the interior. On the 18th the Indians
killed John Covington, on his way
from the Red bank on the Ohio to the
Muddy River in Kentucky.
On the Gath of November, 1894, the
incursions of the Creeks made it still
necessary to keep up defensive protc.
tion on the frontiers, which was order
ed till the first of April 1906, and on
the 22d of November, the Governor
stated in letter to Col. Winchester,
that as to the Creeks, he had no doubt,
but that they would continue to kill
and steal as usual until the United
States marched an army into their
country, and they in turn felt the
horrors of war. When this wished for
period would arrive he could not say,
but it was decidedly his opinion at the
same time, that the sooner the people
of the southwestern territory became a
State, the sooner will protection be af.
forded. And he declared it to be his
wish that the people may see their own
interest, and upon the question of
State or no State, determine in the af-
frmative.
On the 9th of November 1894, a
party of Indians killed and scalped
Col. John Montgomery, and wounded
Julius Saunders with four balls, and
Charles Beatty through the arm, on
the northwestern frontier of Tennessee
County. And on the Goth, another
party of Indians, on the northern from
tiers of Sumner County, killed and
scalped John Lawrence, William Hams
and Michael Hampton, and wounded
fourth, whose name was not reported.
The party was supposed to consist of
Creeks and lower town Cherokees. The
people in their conduct towards the
Indians were now no longer to be re-
strand from offensive operations. On
the Goth of December, were killed and
scalped by Indians, on Harpeth River,
Hugh TENN, of Sumner County, then
late Colonel of Orange County in
North Carolina, and John Brown and
William Grimes, the latter a nephew
of Gen. Mebane, member of Con-
gress from North Carolina.
Whoever endeavors to please all
seldom in the end pleases anybody,
unless he has the address to substitute
good wishes for good offices. The
former is an inexhaustible fund, out of
which all mankind can be supplied,
and whenever distributed creates an
expectation of beneficence, which be
comes the basis of complacency in the
expectant as durable and as unconfined
as the good wishes are liberal. But if
ne attempts to please by the perform
ance of good offices, the fund is limited,
but few can taste of its bounty, and
t1eoe fow, losing the expectation of
future beneficence from the scant tiness
of the means which can be employed,
lose at the same time the good will
which that expectation supported; and
in place thereof, as the receipt of fa-
vors is an admission of inferiority, the
suspicion is entertained that the doer
so considers their relative situation.
From that moment dislike takes the
place of benevolence and often grows
to an enormous bulks. So it is with
government, whatever it does will not
please all and sometimes none. In
many instances when the public good,
or in other words, that of the greater
part is consulted, the measures taken
for that end will run counter to the |
prospects and even the acquired rights
of individuals. The Indians complained
of the violation of their territorial
rights and now came forward. In the
of this year other discon-
tented persons, ,murmuring at the reiln
quishments made to quiet the Indians
by the treaties of Hopewell and Hol-
ston,a committee consisting of Thomas
Person, j. Rutledge, Hugh William son,
Polk and Robert Irwin, in be.
half of themselves and the other pur-
chasers of lands in the ceded territory
south of the Ohio, presented their pc.
lition to the General Assembly of
North Carolina, stating the acts of that
Legislature under which they had pur.
chased lands in the ceded territory ,and
she entries and grants which had been
N ade by and to them under the au-
,hority of North Carolina; and that by
he treaties made between the United
States and the Chickasaw and Chero-
see Indians, boundaries had been estab
ished between the United States and
jhe said Indians. The former guaran-
eeihg to the latter all the lands not
,eded by the Indians, and the said
reaties declaring that no person not
,eing an Indian, shall settle on any of
he said lands. That a great part of
he lands entered by the petitioners
Ind for which they have paid the
purchase money, as well as some of
he lands reserved by law for the off,
;ers and soldiers of the line of North
Carolina in the late Continental army,
vas entered within the tract of coun-
ry ceded by those treaties to the
Chickasaw and Cherokee Indians.
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