Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-01-22

upon the inhabitants of the territory
with deep conviction that they en-
joyed less degree of protection than
the Government ought to supply, and
with a solemn murmur of discomfort,
at the great losses they had sustained
without compensation made by the
Government, and without liberty al.
lowed them to procure compensation
by the exertion of their own physical
powers. But considering the feverish
state of the world, the differences of
the United States with Great Britain;
their pending regulations with Spain;
their war with the Algerines, and the
great struggle the Government had to
maintain, for the preservation of its
neutral attitude, together with the in
subordinstion and resistance of the
Government, of some of the counties
of Pennsylvania. The southwestern
people still judged it the wisest course
to confide in the Government and in
the illustrious Chief Magistrate at the
head of it, whose prudence and just
discernment had now become through
out the world, the theme of admiration
and eulogy. Gen. Knox, previous to
the resignation of his office as Secre
tary of War, delivered report on the
2Sth of December, upon the means Of
preserving peace with the Indians; it
was laid by the President before Con-
gress, with a hope that some means
might be devised to preserve treaties
and to afford protection to the from
tiers.
CHAPTER TX.
The year 1890 with the people of
Cumberland, was the epoch of much
expectation, apprehension and hope.
The new Federal Government was
about to be extended over their coun
try; from its energies much was hoped
and much was dreaded, and great was
the attention bestowed on its primordial
acts. Atthe same time new terri.
torial Government was arising from
the divested sovereignty Of North Caro-,
lima, and low it was to affect the peo
pie or be relished by them, was wholly
problematical; these were important
novelties, which do not occur but in
the lapse Of many ages, and which
were to have a lasting influence upon
the condition of the people. A degree
OF anxiety was excited suitable to their
magnitude, and in presence of these,
all other objects were of inferior mo.
ment. The Indians dealt out blows
and death, but hope and fear on tiptoe,
turned from them to that grand exhi-
bition, which riding on the pillows of
time, had just heaved into view. The
savages themselves. seemed not to be
exempt from the general feelings, and
to have stopped for a moment to catch
the results of these modern expert
ments. Their operations were not as
destructive in this year as formerly
they killed Alexander Neely near
Greenfield, at the fort where Anthony
Bledsoe had lived; also, young wo
man of the name of Norris, on Browns
Fork of Red River and wounded Blair
and another; they killed at Mayfield g
Station, John Glen, who had married
the widow Mayfeld, and they killed
three persons at Browns Station, q
few miles from Nashville; they wound.
ed John Mercy, and caught and
scalped three of Everett 8 children and
killed Everett. Hague erected cot.
ton machine on Mill Creek, at which
some persons were killed whose names
are forgotten. Francis Armstrong fell
upon party of Indians at Gant's
Station; they fled, and he regained five
horses, and Col. Weakly killed one of
the Indians who had come into the
settlement to kill and plunder. They
sometimes met with the fate which
they deserved, but more frequently
escaped unhurt with their booty.
In April, 1901, negro man of Capt.
Caffrey's was killed at work in the
field; great number of horses were
now taken from the settlements, and
particularly from Station Camp Creek,
in Sumner County; some from the
neighborhood of Nashville in May, and
some again in June, aa likewise from
Red River and Sumner County in the
same month. In May they killed John
Farris and his brother of Lincoln
County, Kentucky; ON the esd of May,
George Wilson. young man in Sum
ner County, six miles from the Court
House, on the public road to Nashville.
On the I'd of June, 1901, they killed
John Thompson in his own cornfield,
within five miles of Nashville; on the
14th of June they killed John Gibson
and wounded McMoon in Gibson 3 field
within eight miles of Nashville; they
killed Benjamin Kirkendall in his OWL
house, within two miles of Col. Win
chester's, in Sumner County, and
plundered his house of everything tina,
Indians could use. In June, three
travellers from Matches to Nashville
were found dead on the trace near the
mouth of Duck River; there were eighI
in company and only two come in; or
the Sd of July, Thomas Fletcher and
two other men, were killed on the
north side of Cumberland, near the
mouth of Red River. their heads wert
entirely skinned, and in the same
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