Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-05-20
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE.
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ina for redress, who recommended the
ubiect to the consideration of the
North Carolina delegation In Congress.
And as the petitioners were excluded
ind debarred from the possession Of
heir lands, they now earnestly SO
icited the Assembly for justice and
satisfaction, such as, regardful of pub
ic faith, the State ought to afford. A
was appointed and reported
IN favor of the petitioners, and pro-
posed that the Representatives aud
Sen ators in Congress from North Caro-.
lima should exert themselves to pro-
cure redress from the National Gov
ernment, and this recommendation
was approved by the Assembly. The
subject was brought before Congress
together with the petition Of the trus-
tees of the University of North Caro-.
lima, which echoed the same querulous
expostulations. A committee was ap-
pointed and reported on the 10th of
February, 1894, that the certificates
paid for lands lying within the territory
ceded by the treaty of Holston 10 Ger.
tain Indian tribes ought of right. to be
restored to the former proprietors and
that they should be assumed and pro-
vided for as part of the debt of the
United States, and that the said pro-
prietors should, moreover, be reim-
bursed all expenses incurred in enter.
ing, locating and surveying said lands.
And to this reDort the committee sub
joined for the opinion of the house,
two resolutions pointing out the man.
ner in which they thought the business
should be conducted. These plans,
however, never grew to maturity and
the petitioners had the good fortune to
be disappointed in their wishes. If
men of so much intelligence and ex.
perience in business were disheartened
at the long continuance of unchecked
devastations committed by the Indians,
can it be matter of surprise that the
afflicted population of Nero district
should also entertain sentiment of
dissatisfaction at the unmerited cruel.
ties which they had never provoked,
and which, like strong current of
mighty waters, was suffered to beat
upon them incessently, by night and
by day. Still they submitted with pa
tient resignation to the arrangements
of national authority, and gave the
world signal proof that as genuine
bravery ss- amy sge.or country could
boast Of, was not incompatible with
the most perfect subserviency to ma
tional councils. Every day they had
to grieve for the loss of their dearest
relations the victims of savage ven
geauce, yet they believed that the
ways of government were wiser than
their ways, and carefully followed the
course which government prescribed
From the incompetence of the late con
federation to the adjustment of nation
al affairs, they preceived that numerous
difficulties had arisen to embarrass tn,
operations of the present government
and that from all quarters of the eartt
there came something which claimed
attention. They were bayed by the
Spaniards, by the Indians, by thu
English, teased by the French, disturb
ed by insurgents, beseiged by public
creditors, and murmured at by thos,
who were excluded, for time, from
the possession of their lands by Indiar
treaties. Perceiving all this, they
yielded to the necessity of circum
stances and hoped with confidence fo
better times.
The American negotiators with Spair
industriously pressed forward the dis
cussion of those matters which ha(
been made the subjects of negotiation
And it was announced to the United
States little after the middle of Feb
ruary, 1894. by the minister of tn,
King of Spain, that his Majesty wa
satisfied the Indians had been the az
gressors 10 their wars with the peopl
of Georgia, and that he had trans
mitted instructions to the Governors O
Louisiana and Florida to give them nj
assistance, being satisfied that tn
United States had no unfriendly de
signs upon their possessions in East o
West Florida by the nroclamat alton o
neutrality and by the fixed resolution
of the government of the union L
maintain it, together with rising dis
satisfaction at the conduct of the Eng
lish allies, the near approach of peac
with France, and as part of tn
system that Louisiana would, in cor
venient time, be ceded to the latter
to be sold to America, it is no wonde
that the current of politics in Spai
should actually begin to flow in char
nels altogether different from the oil
ones to which they had been accu
toned, And it was now to be expecte,
as the event afterwards proved, th
80 far as Spanish incitation was Il
cause of Indian hostility. the form,
would be far less pressing than forme
ly, as soon as the dispatches from Spa
should reach the Governors of FloriC
and Louisiana, and should have tin
, to be transmitted to the Creeks al
I Cherokees. The affairs of Ameri,
with Spain were in such train