Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-07-01
"the Creeks must be at peace with the


I Choctaws had given notice to the
Chickasaws that the Creeks would
shortly be upon them. Piomingo sent
men to Gen. Robertson to conduct
boats with supplies for the nation to
the Chickasaw bluffs He stated to the
General that as the assistance which
the Chickasaws had expected was out
of his power, he, Piomingo, still hoped
that he had by engaging the Greeks in
war contributed to the. relief Of the
people of Cumberland, though Difficult
ties were brought on themselves. But
you shall hear, said he, that l died
like man.
The lower towns OF the Creeks alb
horred the duplcity the other Creeks
were praoticing, and not one of them
Joined those others in their expedition
against the Chickasaws. And more
over, they transmitted to the upper
towns spirited remonstrance against
the course they we're taking. After the
arrival of the two Greek women, who
will be presently mentioned, from the
Chickasaws, and the delivery of their
story to the Creek warriors, there was
no lenient which could assuage their
raging displeasure. They marched.
But by the 10th of September several
squads had returned, without having
made any successful attempt, The
Creeks were willing to make peace
with the Chickasaws, but deemed it a
point of honor previously to obtain
some satisfaction for the wrongs sup
posed to have been done by them.
On the 10th of September, the Chicka-
saw chiefs had returned from visiting
the President, and. so much was the
Governor pestered by these people that
losing hold of his usual equanimity he
sincerely wished to his confidents that
this might be the last Of his red breth-
ren, he should ever see on their way
to visit the great father. They re-
turned in bad humor, and many con-
descensons and compliances were
necessary to keep from being more 80.
These he directed General Robertson
to see made. He wished report from
the General previous TO the 10th of
October, showing how far he had exc
cuted the orders to obtain from the
Chickasaws the Creeks who were pris
oners in their country, in case, said he,
the Creeks have fallen upon the
Chickasaws, you are to take care Of
lsthem, adding by way of repetition. II
say, take care Of them, for they must
not be injured
s-fn 4 few days after thb address 81
the Governor to the Creeks, in which
he tells them, they must be at peace
with the Chickasaws, he received in
dubitable information that the Creek
warriors were collecting from all quar-
ters of the nation, to make descent
upon the Chickasaws; that they were
to rendezvous in the woods, and were
to leave the Creek nation on the 4th of
September. Their number was esti-
mated at thousand. Instantly he
wrote to Piomingo, the great chief of
Chickasaws, and despatche ed an express
to him stating this information, and he
desired Gen. Winchester to give it all
possible acceleration.
On the 10Th, he received ample con-
firmation of these facts by Col. White.
who was directly from the Creek ma
ton, with Capt Singleton. The medi-
alton Of the United States, they had
learned from the Creeks, was intended
to throw the Chickasaws off tSeir
guard and to draw them from their
Businesses, that they might be taken by
surprise, and the satisfaction might be
taken for the sixteen Creeks whom
they had killed. The Creeks had been
marching in the nation in small de.
tachments from the god OF August to
the 7th of September, and were to
rendezvous on Cedar Creek, 4 hundred
and forty miles from the Creek nation.
and sixty from the Chickasaws. The
number was supposed to be two thou
sand. The Mad Dog, Greek chief,
said in the council, that it was war
between the red people, with which
the whites had no concern, and ought
not to intermeddle in any respect.
Other members of the council and
great part of the Creek nation strongly
reprobated the measures which the
Greeks were then pursuing. 1t had
been represented by two Creek women
who had recently escaped from the
Chickasaws, that the latter, in speak
ing of the Creeks and of the late attack
upon the Chickasaw towns, had said
that they were not men but women.
aud that they would appropriate them
to the same uses, an indelicate expires.
sion to be sure, but implying. accord
ing to the idea of these savages, the
most contemptuous imputation that
could be made. A great part of the
nation was exasperated even to mad
ness, as far more civilized nations have
sometimes been by con temptuous Ian
guage. The Creeks enquired of the
number of men who had gone with
Gen. Robertson to the Chickasaw ma
ton, and upon being answered that
they were only an escort, they desired
to know what that was. Col. White
Ill