Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-07-15
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE
[CoYTINUEp FROM LAST WEEK. I

purchased goods and sent them to the
territory to be disposed of to the In
dans for costs and charges Governor
Blount directed them to be delivered
at Tellico, He also directed Colonel
Kelley and the Sheriff of Blount
County, to remove those settemen ts
which began to be formed between
Clinch River and the Chilhowee Noun
tain upon the lands of the Indians;
and he issued proclamation for re-.
moval of the trespassers in Powell 8
Valley upon the Indian lands.
1t was so understood in the Cherokee o
nation aud by the people of Cumbe
land that peace was finally established.
And an Indian of the name of Shoe.
boots, of Hightower, with his company
came and encamped near the Cumber-
land road, and hunted without moles-
tation, determined to suffer no mischief
on their part to he done to the white
people, and with request communi.
Gated through Mr.. Dinsmore to be
treated as friends, and that white peo
pie would meet and talk with them in
peace. They had previous to this re.
quest, they said, been we'll treated by
the white people and had invited them
to their camps and used them like
brothers, and it was hoped that the
white people in travelling would not
mistake and fire upon them as enemies.
Some of them intended to go to the fer.
ry on Cumberland to see if goods were
there for which they could exchange
their skins, meat or oil. Aud to trade
for them if such goods were there. If
there were no goods that suited, they
wanted permission to return with their
property without interruption. In this
company of hunters were nine head
men and two hundred others. If Gen.
Robertson had an interpreter they
wished to hold talk with him and as
sure him of their friendship, and to
learn the price of goods before the re-
moval of their skins from camp. The
General readily accorded to them all
that they requested. But the unIuly
passions of foolish individuals continu.
ually struggled again to embroil the
Indians and white people.
On the last of February, 1895, the
Cherokees complained that four of
their nation had been killed, and de.
manded satisfaction agreeably to
Treaty, and declafedtha if satisfaction
were not given they would take it.
They hardly made this complaint be-
fore they had cause to make another.
On the first of March, they sta ted that
one of their nation was probably
killed, for they heard the report of a
gun, and one of their comrades, who
was then separated from them not re-
turning, they took his track and went
on it as far as they could, found blood,
and could trace him no further. Gov.
Blount promised to make inquiry, and
to punish the offender. Peace. 30 neces.
sary for the well being of the commu
nifty, and so long and so anxiously de
sired, had scarcely been established
before the frenzied Imagination of ig.
norant individuals assumed to know
better what to do than the constituted
authorities. And without foreseeiny
a single effect to be produced by their
rashness, blindly committed the most
injuries, and exposed the
whole country to renewal of their
former sufferings. Such behavior de-
served detestation, and that the law
should be so framed as to brand it with
the mark of infamy. If Vt be despot
sm for one man in country to act as
be pleases, free from the restraints of
aw, how much greater despotism is it
for five thousand to act in the same
way, either against the State or the in
1ividuals who compose it, in divergent
Or opposing directions, without redress
20 be had for the wrongs they do, and
without the means of preventing them?
Freedom like religion, must be gov.
cred by reason, or as the one degener.
,tes into fanaticism, so will the other
INTO anarchy, which calls for master
10 quellit.
The Creeks yet kept up hostilities.
and some of the refractory Cherokees
we're suspected of co operating with
hem in an underhand way.
On the 9th Of January, 1895, John
Tyre, Junior, was killed, and John
Tyre, senior, John Burlinson, Sherrad
Mays and Thomas Mays, were wound
ID by Indians on the frontiers of
Hawkins County, about fifty miles
above Knoxville, on the waters of
Clinch.
On the eth of January, party of
Indians killed George Mason, on Flat
Creek, about twelve miles from Knox.
vile. In the night he heard a noise at
his stable, and stepping out, his return
to the door was instantly cut off by In
dians. lie sought safety by flight, and
was fired upon and wounded. Never
theless he reached cave, quarter of
a mile from his house, out of which
they dragged and killed him, and then
to the house ip which were
his wife aud children. AS they re-
turned Mrs. Mason heard them talking
to each otherand at first supposed they