Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-07-08

country which he had fostered with so
much care smiling for the blessings it
enjoyed, and for the still greater bles'
sings which providence seemed to have
in store.
CHAPTER X.
After the conferences of Gov Blount
with the Cherokees which terminated
on the Sd of January, 1895, and had been
attended by fifteen hundred Cherokees
and by great number of whites, the
general opinion was, that peace was
again restored as between them and
the United States. The Governor re,
ceived private assurance from the
chiefs that their warriors could be en-.
gagged to protect the frontiers, though
they could not publicly say so; for fear
the Creeks would fall on them befose
they could be prepared for their re-
ception. The Bloody Fellow and John
Watts made part of the representation
from the lower towns, and besides the
assurances of peace given on the part
of their nation, pledged themselves to
use their exertions to prevent the hos.
tile Creeks from plundering and killing
the people of Cumberland and Ken
tucky; and to remove all obstacles in
consistent with the harmony and good
understanding which ought to subsist
between people at peace, the Governor
by his proclamation issued on the 6th
of January gave orders for the removal
of all those who had settled upon lands
guaranteed to the Cherokees by the
treaty of Holston between Cumberland
Mountain and Clinch River and that
part of the territory called Powell g
Valley. And considering the treaty
as in full force and operation by the
existing state of peace, he demanded
on the 9th of January, that the Indi
ans who had killed man should be
delivered up to be tried according to
its provisions, and if Creeks that they
should be seized wherever they could
be found in the nation. Considering
also that the Cherokees we're under the
protection of the United States, he dl.
r9cted that one of them who had killed
| hn tn n
tiers to rob and murder, should come
to his house if in danger, and after the
meeting at Allejoy to come to Tellico
block house, where he would receive
I much powder and lead as would be
necessary for his defense against the
Creeks. This Indian was one of the
warriors who accompanied Double
Head in the summer of 1894, to Phila.
delphia to visit the President, he was
called Chiccunee or the Stallion. With
nine others, about the Goth of Decem-
Der last, he fell in with party of Creeks
approaching the frontiers of Georgia
with hostile intentions as he and his
party supposed, and killed one of them
with his scalp he and his associates ap-
peared at Tellico blockhouse, where
the scalp dance was that night held by
several of the principal chiefs and
warriors of the Cherokees in presence
of many of the frontier and other citi.
zens of the United States. These and
other appearances gave sure indications
of permanent and general peace
with the Cherokees. And in April the
Governor announced that peace with
the Cherokees was in reality complete
ly restored. He was directed to procure
from them their assent to the eStab-
lishment of trading post on the north
bank of the Tennessee near the Creek
crossing place, and he ordered the ap
plication to be made to them at the
next meeting of their general council
which was to be at Estanaula on the
7th of May, and they were to be in.
formed that Congress had appropri-
ately fifty thousand dollars to extend
trade to the Indians, and that the
goods could be conveniently sent by
water, to the place proposed, from
which they could easily be convey ed
to Cherokees, Chickasaws and Choc.
taws. That small military force will
be established at which the hunters
might sell their meat.
The Cherokees were very much dis
turbed in the latter part of May by {
report which some maker of mischief
had put in circulation, purportiug tina
another visit was to be made to then
by the people of Kentucky and Cum
| 5orlsnd, but on this head their fear
were queted.
A part of the Cherokees felt SOM
uneasness respecting a claim of Col
, Jacks, and at the conferences in Octo
I tober, when upon the subject of land
D formerly ceded which were to remail
, as the several cessions had place,
4 them; the Bloody Fellow delivered
e medal to the Governor which Colone
s Patrick Jack had given to him with
0 desire that it should be sent to tn
z President with an explanation of tn
J, intent of the donor The Governo
r said he had understood the intentio
of the giver of this medal, and prom
Q ised to explain the matter and to sen
o it to the President. The explanatio
s given by the Governor was this: PA
o rick Jack, at that time of Pennsylv,
l. mia, who gave the medal to the Blood
II EallOw ren0rts him splf tn hova hoo