Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-04-08
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE
IcoNTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. |

CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
At this time many of our people were
in slavery with the Creek Indians, and
were treated by them in all respects as
slaves. In the Cayelegies, Mrs. Will
liams and child, Alice Thompson, of
Nashville, Mrs. Caffrey and child Of
Nashville. In the Hog villages, Mr..
Brown, of the district of Nero. In the
Clewatlytown, Miss Scarlet. In the
White Grounds, Miss Wilson, of the
district of Nero, and boy and girl.
In the Colummies, boy five years Of
age. AT the Big Talasse, a boy of
eight or ten years of age. and a girl
seven or eight years of age. In the
Pocontalahassie, a boy twelve or thir
teen years of age. In the Oakluskee,
q lad fifteen years of age. In the Red
Ground, a man called John. In Cas-.
sauders, boy whose age and name
were not known. In Lesleytown, a
young woman who was repeatedly
threatened with death for refusing to
cohabit with Lesley g son; and in some
other town was Mrs. Crockett and her
son. Put the Indians unintermittedly
pretended desire for peace, and so
completely had they counterfeited,
Mr.. Barnard stated to the Governor of
Georgia, Mr.. Talfair, that the upper
Greeks, to man, seemed to be quiet;
though not many days before the date
Of his letter, on the 18th of September,
1893, as he stated, they had six of their
men killed on their hunting grounds
on the south side Of the Tennessee
River, BY the Cumberland people, and
one OF the six as great O man as any
amongst them. He ought to have
known that the scene of action was
below the town of Nickajack, not very
far from the south bank of the Ten
nessee, not on the hunting grounds Of
the Creeks, but on their common road
to Cumberland, to kill and to steal.
And he ought to have known that the
Creek claim to lands was bounded by
the ridge which divides the waters Of
the Tennessee and Mobile. When they
were not far from the bank of the Ten
nessee, In body of forty or fifty men
and painted black, 1t was not to be
doubted, exclaimed the people of Cum.
berland, that they were for war; and
that they should have been treated as
enemies, was neither fit subject for
lamentation nor complaint.
As early as the 18th of November,
Gen. Robertson had conceived and
secretly harbored the design of destroy
ing the five lower towns of the Chero
KEGS; he expressed decided disappro-
baton of all negotiation with them, as
it would but lull the people of the
territory into security, and make
them the surer victims of Cherokee
perfdity. He, by way of introducing
the subject to notice, asked of General
Sewer in familiar way. when the
lower towns would get their deserts?
1t was hinted by the Governor, said he,
that it will be in the spring; suspect
before that time. But it may be imma
terial to us, considering our exposed
situation and the little protection we
have. He pressed Gen. Sewer to carry
an expedition of fifteen hundred men
into the Cherokee country before the
ensuing spring. We shall see that the
former idea, with whomsoever it may
have originated, came to maturity in
the following year; though at this time
no one, for fear of the displeasure of
Government, would either be the au-
thor, advocate, promoter or even con.
nive, at the design.
The affairs of the Chickasaws are
now about to claim attention, and will
be found to require detail of expli.
cation neither compendious nor at the
same time very agreeable.
The Shawnees which arrived in the
Cherokee country about the 18th of
January, 1893, on their way to the
Creeks and Choctaws, for the purpose
of exciting them to war against the
United States, gave out that they in.
tended to return through the Cherokee
towns In expectation of meeting the
nation in full council at Estanaula.
They informed the Cherokees, that the
Shawnees had resolved to fall on the
Chickasaws and to cut them off for
joining the army of Gen. st. Clair.
The Greeks also alleged causes of dis
satisfaction peculiar to themselves
against the Chickasaws. During the
conferences at Nashville the Creeks
stole from the Chickasaws twelve hor-
ses. The latter pursued the thieves to
the Greek towns and demanded the
horses. The Creeks returned for an.
swer, that they had found these horses
upon the lands of their enemies, the
white people, and that they would not
return them to the Chickasaws. At
this answer the Chickasaws were high
ly exasperated, and in the heat of pas
sion fell upon anG killed several of the
Creeks. The white people felt uneasy
apprehensions for the fate of their
Chickasaw friends, and greatly depre-
Gated the event of the approaching W ar
between them. After rejecting upon
this subject Gov. Blount was of opin
ion that if the Chickasaws were not
supported by the United States in their