Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-05-13
I1AYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE.
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CoNTIN UED FROM LAST WEEK.
What are the feelings excited by
this scene in which we see an old and
tried patriot, who never once failed to
fly to the succor of his country in dis.
treSs, so chidcd and reproved for an
act which actually put an end to In.
dian incursions, and wrested from
their hands the tomabawk and the
scalping knife? We shall he obliged
to say, if an error was committed, it
was on the side of virtue and patriot
ism, and reproof should be admins
tered with a great portion of kindness
and respect intermixed. Shall one be
the savior Of his country, and for that
be chagrined into retirementp The re.
grets of that country will follow his
exit, and glow of affection shall rise
at the tale.
Whoever admires the man that loved
his country more than himself, at the
same time that he acknowledges the
correctness of that policy in govern.
ment which is inflexible for disobedi
ence of orders, will say with the grace.
full sincerity of truth, that in this in.
stance wish it were otherwise.
Gen. Robertson, on the 9Th Of Oc-
tober, transmitted to the Governor a
copy of orders to Major Ore of the
9th of September, and he assigned
to the Governor his reasons for giving
it. lie had received two expresses
from the Chickasaws, one by Thomas
Brown, a man of unquestionable
veracitv, and the other by a common
runner giving information that large
body of Creeks, with the Cherokees
of the lower towns, were embodying
with determination to invade the
district nf Nero. And not doubling the
truth of the information, he conceived
that if Major Ore should not meet the
invading army of Creeks and Chero-
KEGS, that it could not be considered
otherwise than defensive to strike the
first blow on the lower towns. and
thereby check them in their advance.
Nor could he suppose that the pursuit
of parties of Indians who had recently
committed murders and thefts to the
towns from which they came and there
striking them, could be considered as
an offensive measure, unauthorized by
the usage of nations in such cases. 1t
can not be necessary, said he, to add
as justification the long repeated and
almost daily sufferings of the people of
the district of Nero, by the hands of
the Creeks and Cherokees of the lower
towns.@ He stnted that the destruction
of the lower towns by Major Ore, was
on the 18th of September, and that on
the 18th, in Tennessee County, Miss
Roberts was killed on Red River, forty
miles below Nashville. And on the
14th Thomas Reasons and wife were
killed and their house plundered, near
the same place, by Indians. On the
10th, in Davidson County, twelve miles
above Nashville, another party killed
Chambers, wounded John Bozely and
Joseph Davis, burned John Donaldson 3
station. and carried off sundry horses.
And in Sumner County, on the same
day, third party of Indians killed
woman on Red River, near Major
Sharp's, about forty miles northeast of
Nashville, and carried off several
horses. This proved in his opinion
that three separate and distinct parties
of Indians were out for war against the
district of Nero, before the march of
Major Ore from Nashville. He enclos
ed also to the Governor the copy of a
letter received from Doctor R. j. Wal
ters, a citizen of the United States,
resident atNew Madrid to John Eastin.
his factor in Tennessee County, strong
ly supporting the information the
had given of the invasion |
by the Creeks, and said the General, |
s not the old Maw's information to
yourself IN the latter part of August,
10 the same effectY To him and his
friendly party are the people of this
country indebted, he said, for their not
invading us as they intended. If, said
ne, have erred Isball ever regret it.
TO be good citizen, obedient to the
avs is my greatest pride; and to exc
,ute the duties of the commission W hich
he President has been pleased to honor
ne, in such manner as to meet his ap
probation and that of my superiors in
'ank, has ever been my most favorite
wish. Previously to the march of
Major Ore from Nashville, he said,
Col. Whitley with about a hundred
men, arrived there from Kentucky,
'aying they had followed a party of
Indians who had committed depreda.
ions on the southern frontier of that
State. That in the pursuit they had a
nan killed by the Indians, and several
,orses taken, and they were determined
70 pursue to the lower towns. They
we're attached to Maj. Ores command,
which augmented the number to five
hundred and fifty men. He should be
happy, he continued, if his apprehen.
'ions of Creek invasion were removed,
but they were not for William Colbert
and other Chickasaws, informed him
hat they yet threatened Nero district,
not in large numbers but in small par