Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-01-15
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. I

CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
On the Goth of October. Doublehead
II principal chief of the lower Chero
KEGS, sent to Gov. Blount peace talk
His Indian name was Tucalatague. He
was signer of the treaty of Holston
and he was one of the nineteen depu
ties who were appointed to visit the
President for the restoration of peace
he was the first person who violated
the treaty of Holston by killing the
two nephews OF Gen. Sewer shortly
after it was made. And he had con
tinued from that time to kill and plum
der until the murder of Thomas Sharp
Spencer, at the Crab Orchard in April.
le" days before his departure for
Philadelphia. In his peace talk to the
Governor. were contained assurances
oil II sincere desire, on the part of the
Cherokees, to observe a peacable con
duct towards the United States, as had
been agreed upon, he said, in the late
conferences with the President and
Secretary of war. Some of the ch ers.
he said, were backward in coming TO
the late meeting of chiefs at the Oeonee,
to devise the measures to be pursued
for the attainment and maintenance of
peace, because of the late expedition
into their country, and killing some
of their people. But the Creeks be.
ing pointed out 10 them as the
authors of this misfortune. they
mad become satisfied. The Gov
ernor in his answer wished for peace.
by which, said he, you are to under
stand that not one more white man ia
to be killed. The suppicatory style
used by Doublehead, and his readine ess
to exclude from complaint that which
had SO lately happened at Nickajack,
together with the substitution on the
part of the Governor, of positive in
junction in place of the expostulations
hitherto employed, affords high evi
dence that in the opinion of both par.
ties. their circumstances had been
greatly altered by recent events, of
which, perhaps the affair of Nickaiack
is not to be considered one of the most
imperative. Their conclusions in fa
vor of peace were hastened by report
which had acquired general circulation
and was believed by the Governor as
well as the Indians; WHICH was, that
Gen. Logan, of Kentucky, b ad marched
in considerable force to attack the
Cherokees, and was to be Joined by
Col. Whitley. The Governor on the
entreaties of Watts, made through
the mediation of the Hanging Nav,
had appointed conference at Tellico
on the 7th and Sth of November, and
he was fearful that those arrangements
might be defeated by an untimely ir.
ruption into the Cherokee Country. He
Immediately dispatched an express to
Col. Whitley, with copies of the cores.
pondence WHICH had lately taken place
between him and Doublehead, and re
quired of him in positive terms, to.
gether with the men who were under
his command, to desst from the fur
ther prosecution of their design: and
that they should not enter with hos
tile purpose the country or lands guar.
anteed to the Cherokee nation by the
treaty of Holston. He on the same
day, dispatched letter to the Chero.
kee chiefs to apprise them of the in
formation which he had received, and
with the steps he had taken by way of
prevention. Upon the receipt of these
letters Gen. Logan, if he had ever enter.
tained the design imputed to him, de
sisted from it, Indeed the Governor
of Kentucky asserted that no such de.
sign had ever been conceived. At the
appointed time conferences were held
at Tellico, Col. Watts declared his
contrition for not adhering to the
recommendations of the Hanging Nav
to the people of the lower towns to be
at peace. That just before the destruc
tion of the Running Water and Nicka.
jack, he had gone to them himself, as
we'll as to the Lookout Mountain town,
and used his exertions for the restora
tion of peace. And he believed verify.
that they had determined to be at peace.
tie would not say that Nickajack and
the Running Water did not deserve
the chastisement they received, never.
theless it so exasperated those who es.
capped from the ruins, and for time be
was forced to be silent himself. But
the Glass, he said, went to the Running
Water people, and they had told him,
notwithstanding the injury they had
sustained, they had not forgotten
Watts peacable recommendation and
desired the latter might take measures
for the recovery of their people who
had been made prisoners. He had a
confirmation of their sincerity through
the Bloody Fellow, who had been sent
by him to ascertain it; and therefore
he presented to the Governor a string
of white beads. as true talk and pub
lie talk from the lower towus to his
Excellency; he applied to the Hanging
Nav or Scolacutta, then sitting by his
side, as he remarked, for a witness to
the fact, that the lower towns had in
structed him, Col. Watts, to request
Scolacutta not to throw them away,
but to 20 with them to the Governor