Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-02-26

lor was chosen to command them.
There were at least two hundred good
horses upon the ground, which had
been stolen from the people of the
United States. In the afternoon the
plan Of the attack was taken up, and il
was determined to attack the Holston
settlements in four divisions, of four
hundred in each division, and to sweep
the settlements as far as the big island
of Holston, and then to divide in
smaller parties, going up French Broad
and sweeping it to its head. The coun
Gil then adjourned and went to the
war dance, which they continued until
next morning, painted black. On the
fourth day after arriving at Willstown,
the'party met again at Lookout Noun
tain town and determined to attack
Cumberland in four divisions, and to
clear the country of all living people.
Orders were given by Watts, Taylor,
the Glass, Talotiskee, Fool Charles, by
by some called Captain Charley, and
the Breath, to procure provisions for
the next day, and to be in readiness
to start for war on the succeeding day.
| About an hour and half after the
issuing of these orders intelligence was
received that the Whitemankiller had
arrived in a canoe from Knoxville,
with a quantity of whisky, at the
mouth of Lookout Mountain Greek,
distant from the Lookout Mountain
town about fifteen miles. Men were
Immediately dispatched to bring it to
the town, and on its arrival every In,
dian betook himself to the drinking Of
it, and wholly neglected the orders to
provide for the war.
On the 9th day after arriving at
Willstown, the party generally lay
drunk and stupid, and no public
talk was held. They agreed that two
persons, Dirogue and Fendleston,
should be sent to Cum berland and
should return to them in ten days;
their business was, as the Indians in
tended, to get information at Nashville,
of the state of the country and of its
means Of defence, and to report the
same to them, that so they might be
the better enabled to judge at what
points the attacks could be most cue
cessfully made. The Cherokees re-
solved to put Carey and Shaw to death
for giving information Of their designs
to Gov Blount. 1t was agreed in
council as part OF their plan, to write
to Gov. Blount and inform him that
the rumor Of war in the lower town
from a few drunken young fellows,
and that the heads who were for peace
had stopped them; this was intended
to counteract the consequences of the
information given by Shaw and Carey,
and to throw the Governor off his
guard. Watts was appointed to COM
mand the Creeks and Cherokees who
should be called into the field and be
for war; the Cherokee nation met in
council and agreed to the appointment.
Thus, we see, the train was laid and
ready to explode, for the destruction
Of those who resided in the south west.
ern territory, and the people Of Ken
lucky who had been guilty of no other
offenSe than that Of concurring with
that Of the rest Of the United States in
the formation Of constitution which
excluded from its composition both
aristocracy and monarchy, and was
about to prove to the world that man.
kind could be happily governed with
out the assistance of either; for this
offense only, the English on the one
hand, had stirred up the northern In.
dians against Kentucky, and the Span.
iards now on the eve of becoming their
allies, had also prepared the Creeks
and Cherokees to begin the work of
death, and to harrow the people of
Cumberland with all the desolations
that those united savages could bring
upon them. On the 80th of August,
1902, after Watts had returned from
the conferences at Pensacola, the Gov.
ernor invited him by very polite let.
ter to visit Knoxville, and to communi-
cate the proposals which the Spaniards
had made to the Creeks and Cherokees
in the late conferences at Pensacola.
To this letter he received no answer:
he had written before this to the
friendly chiefs Of the Creeks and Chero.
KEGS, as he chose for the moment to
suppose and call them, to be informed
of the communication which Panton
had made to them in May, and of the
intelligence they had received after
the treaty at Pensacola from those who
had been at tit and returned; he re.
ceived no satisfactory statements ON
these heads. BY letter dated in the
Cherokee nation, and sent from thence
directly, Gov. Blount obtained in forma
ton that the five lower towns had re-
solved on war, and intended to march
on the Sth of the month of September,
and that the Spaniards had furnished
them with ammunition, guns, hatchets
and knives. On the 18th OF September
his intelligence became more circum-
stantial; he .hen obtained unquestion.
able evidence that the five lower towns
had declared for war, and had sent
out three hundred warriors to the set.
Elements; other accounts stated them