Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-02-12
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. |

the people of Cumberland. General
Robertson had for some time kept up
a correspondence with Mr.. Portell, the
commandant at New Madrid, and on
the 7th OF May, 1909, received from
him assurances that he neither had
been, nor would be, concerned in en-
couraging the Indians to commit dep.
relations and murders on the people of
Cumberland. On the contrary, his
feelings revolted at them, and he con
sidered himself bound by the princi-
pies OF humanity and by the duty he
owed to mankind in general, to dis
countenance and repress such atrocity
by all the means in his power. We
shall presently see the course they
were taking at this very time with the
Creeks, and the means they employed
to make the Cherokees dissatisfied and
to hopo from them redress of the
wrongs which they pretended to have
suffered. Certain chiefs of the Chero.
kee nation, in the name of the whole
nation, transmitted a written remon-
STRANGE to the Baron de Carondalet,
which purports to be an answer to the
message by the persons whom he sent
to their nations: it complains of the
unjust occupation Of their lands by
the Americans; the treaty of Hopewell
was not by their free consent, for these
lands were settled before their consent
was asked, and because of the f,audu.
lent means used by them in the usur
patton of their lands; the nation in
sisted upon their ancient limits as
agreed on with the British government.
They prayed of the baron TO use his
best efforts with the King of Spain for
the accomplishment of these ends, and
at all events for the removal of the
settlement at Cumberland, without
which the Cherokees and Talapuckes
would never be satisfied. Cumberland,
they said, was settled by certain
Robertson, who, with his companions
coming thither secretly, had taken
possession, and as to the trades they
had with the Americana, in which any
lands were ceded, they declared that
the same were not correctly explained
to them. Robertson, they said, and
his associates, were the cause of all the
blood which had been split; this settle
ment, if taken away, would leave the
Cherokees reconciled, and they declare
that the solicitude they feel is not the
effect of pique or caprice; they promise
to attend to his friendly counsels and
to be at peace if possible: but if not,
he must excuse them because of their
oppression. For hearing such com
plants from people.residing con fessed.
ly on the territories of the United
States, it was not possible for the
Spaniards to offer an excuse; it was q
gross violation of the rights of the
United States, and an act of the most
unfriendly complexion. The confer.
ences at Nashville, were nothing to
them; yet they took care Immediately
to have report made of what passed
there in style suitable to the temper
of the reporter, and to their own dis.
positions; it was made by Ugulaycabe,
a Cherokee who had been to Orleans.
and came from thence by way of his
own home in the Cherokee nation to
the conferences at Nashville; he was
teased, he said, by two Americans to
do 80, and with it wished to see wheth
er Piomingo had ceded lands to the
Americans. Gov. Blount caressed him,
and wished to establish post at Bear
Creek, to which he refused to consent.
He stated that he said to the Governor
that the Spaniards were his friends;
that they supplied him with what
goods he wanted, of which the Gov
ernor might be satisfied by the
clothes which he, the Indian, was then
dressed in, upon which the Governor
grew peevish, but after some time
asked If he would assist the Americans
In case they should have war with the
whites; to which he answered, that he
would preserve state of neutrality,
but would never suffer the American
settlements to be advanced further
than they now were; he said that the
Governor gave him great coat and a
hat which was too small for his head,
and 80 he gave il to his son who was
going to get married. The Americans
he said, gave about dozen cart loads
of goods to the Indians, of the value
as they told him Of 5000 dollars; that
the Governor had little am mmunition,n no
axes, mattocks nor hatchets; some
guns, much whisky, victuals in abun-
dance, meat at pleasure. There is a
vein of satire in all this, which would
not have been spoken of friend to his
fi.end, nor would the latter have rel
ishod or received it. This Indian hav.
ing been at Orleans, knew what was
acceptable there, and framed his report
accordingly. The Spanish nation early
in this year began to foresee that ere
long it would be confederated with the
English and other European powers in
their war against France. The people
of the United States had on every occa-
sion made demonstrations of Joy thro
all parts of the Union, on the news
received of French success. Many OF
the Americans were so imprudent as