Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-02-19
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. |

sit Mt Estanaula, by appointment made
AT the conference at Coy atee, at the re,
quest of the Bloody Fellow, to receive
his report touching the business he had
been on to Philadelphia, and to hear
the big book read which he had brought
from the war office. The Bloody Fellow
did not attend at the council and made
several flimsy excuses for his failure;
the true cause was the letter he had re
ceived from Panic and his subsequent
communications; at Coyatee he was
the warm partzan Of the United States,
as was also his friend Watts.
The demand Of the Little Turkey,
contained in his speech in the council
in June was, that the ridge betw cen
the Cumberland and Green Rivers,
should be the line between the Indians
and the white people. The Jobber g
son sitting at distance, observed to
those around him in low voice, tn at
it was now too late to talk OF that line,
for they had established different one
at the treaty Of Holston. 1t was re.
piled by an Indian near him, I'VE
had then no friends to back us, now
we have" This WAS a new notion
never before taken up till they had
seen Panton; who, it is manifest, from
these speeches and remarks. had prom.
ised them assistance in the recovery of
thcir lands as far as to that line, and
prepared them to make the reclamation
by war.
About the last OF June Spanish
agent or resident commissary arrived
in the Greek nation from New Orleans
and lived in house Of Gen. McGille.
vray, on Little Talassee; his name was
Olivier; he was a Frenchman and a
Captain in the Spanish army, wearing
the uniform of the regiment Of Lewis;
he was sent by the immediate order Of
the Baron de Carondalet, Governor at
New Orleans, to conduct affairs in the
Greek nation. His arrival was supposed
to be in consequence of preconcerted
plan between McGillevray and the
Spaniards on his visit in the last win =
ter TO their possessions, and that Capt.
Olivier was to succeed him in the
Greek nation. McGillevray himself,
not long afterw ards, went to New Or
leans and he engaged to attend the
Spanish treaty with the Indians at
Pensacola in September. Upon the
arrival Of Olivier, McGillevray took
much pains in sending for a number Of
the chiefs and in introducing Olivier
to them as their great friend who was
come to live amongst them and was to
do very useful things for them.
AS soon as McGilevray had left the
nation, Olivier began to call meetings
OF the towns and to direct what the In
dians should or should not do; he pub.
licly forbade the Indians to part with
foot OF land to the United States;
and also forbade their running the
boundary line between them and Geor-
gia as stipulated by the treaty at New
York, and positively enjoined it upon
them not to have anything to do with
the Americans; such conversations
were often repeated, and in the upper
towns, there leaked from him the ad-
vice to the Indians, to turn out against
our people on the western waters. He
had quantity Of goods at Gen. Nc
Gillevray's house, which he distributed
amongst the Indians; he drew orders
on government in favor of all Indians
going to Orleans who received goods
and ammunition, which they brought
up in boats, and in this way they car
rled on a constant intercourse with the
Spaniards at New Orleans. He used
his efforts to engage the chiefs to at
tend the treaty at Pensacola, which
was much talked Of in the nation; one
object OF the treaty, it was said, would
be to obtain leave to erect forts and
establish garrisons in the Greek country.
When the Spanish government was
complained to some time afterwards
by the United States OF this conduct of
Baron de Carondalet. the answer finally
given by their minister, Mr.. Gardoqui
was, that the Spaniards had made a
treaty with the Creeks in the year 1884,
in which they acknowledged his Cath
olic majesty for their only sovereign
protector; in consequence Of this treaty,
1t became the duty Of the Governor of
West Florida to take measures for en-
suring the observance OF the compact,
by naming a person who might reside
amongst them for the purpose Of keep
ing them in peace, and who might
equally take care to counterwork the
designs Of some, who have endeavored
to separate them from ther alliance
with Spain. The excuse itself, is a
provoking acknowledgement Of the in
jury they had done US in meddling with
the Indians within our limits; taking
them under their protection against
all the usages and laws which had
ever prevailed upon the subject; treat.
ing them as their allies, and sending
to reside upon our territories commits
sioners of their own appointment, to
keep them steady to their conventions
with the Spanish government. The
Spaniards had got possession of Bowles,
to punish him as they pretended, for
his conduct amongst the Seminoles;