Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-04-22
HAYWOOD'S
HISTORY OF TENNESSEE
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.

possessions on the Mississippi and the
Gulf of Mexico, as made it particu
larly desirable that all irritation to-.
waids the Spanish Government, and
its colonists, and Governors. at Natchez,
New Orleans and Pensacola, should
be carefully abstained from; and that
the western people should not act of
fensively towards them dire1tly or in
directly through those people, who
were at this time strongly suspected to
have been lately instigated by them.
The nature and extent of their connec-
tons, were indeed not exactly ascer-
tanned, but supposed to be of very
in innate texture. Spanish suspicion
however. was very much alive when
the conferences with the Chickasaws 8
were held at Nashville in August 1892;
and as the race of informers is never
idle when they are not kept at dis
tance, and as they like to tell what
excites sensation, it was soon told to
Governor Gayoso that Gen. Robertson
at these conferences had made threats
which concerned the Spaniards. The
Baron de Carondalet addressed Gen.
Robertson by letter, copy Of which
with the answer of Gen. Robertson the
Governor transmitted TO the Secretary
of War. The Governor in his letter
to the Secretary pointed out some in
consistencies in that of the Baron,
which seemed to signify that the
Cherokees had been for war with the
United States and at the sa me time had
not been for war; however, said the
Governor, it now appears from the
general tenor of his letter, that he
wishes the Indians to observe peace
able conduct towards the United States.
But he, Gov. Blount had not single
doubt, that the Baron soon after he
came to the Government of Louisiana.
in the early part of the rear 1902, as
well as his subordinate officers, particu
larly Gov. Oneil of Pensacola, encour
aged them to pursue quite different
conduct. He commented also upon a
letter of Gov. Gayoso of the Natchez
district, and conceived it to be due him
in justice to say, that he had received
good intelligence from that district by
many citizens of the United States and
Spanish subjects who informed Gov.
Blount, that his conduct towards the
United States had been friendly, and
to the American citizens whilst there.
Gov. Blount did not believe that Gen.
Robertson had uttered the threats
which had been attributed to aim, be
cause he was very prudent and calm
man, and because the Governor him.
self was at Nashville, where they were
said to have been uttered and did not
hear them. CullatOy the Indian by
whom the threat was sa id 10 have been
sent, had been with Gov. Blount and
had declared that he neither received
nor delivered any such threat. John
Thompson the half breed, was the in
terpreter between Gen. Robertson and
Cullatoy, and declared that the Gen
eral sent no such threat and he be-
lieyes that Cullatoy did not deliver any
such. The remark used by him
amounted to this, that the Cumber
land people could not peacably submit
to such repeated murders and tbefts al
the hands of the Cheio iokees." Gen.
Pickens was present and heard what
was said. Cullatoy delivered the mes
sage to the Cher okees at Willstown
where large party was gathered to
hear the talks brought by Watts and
other chiefs from Gov. Opeil and Pan
ton, the purport of which was to ex
cite them to war against the United
States. Gov. Gavoso had expressed q
wish for the establishment of an under
standing between the two nations, in
relation to the management of Indian
affairs, which Gov. Rlount approved
of, and wished it might be made to ex.
tend to the regulation of trade, in such
manner as to make it Panton's interest
to act friendly part towards the
United States; and that until that was
done, or he prohibited from trading
with the Indians, Panton would have
it in his power by direct or indirect
means to keep them in state of wal
with the United States, as they have
been kept ever since the peace betweer
Great Britain and America, in the yeal
1888. PGnton, said he, is a Scotch
tory, two very unpropitious circum
stances in the Governors opinion, sc
that both principle and interest will
induce him to pursue the course he ha
hitherto taken.
The Spaniards about this time CAV,
some umbrage to the Creeks. Tn,
refugees who were settled near tn,
Creek boundary were greatly harrasset
with demands preferred against then
by McGirt in their courts, where in al
instances he obtained decisions in hi
favor. and the prevailing sentimen
was, that the Government used him t,
draw from the inhabitants their prop
erty, by what were called legal decis
ions, for the emolument of the officers
McGrit commanded tory regiment il
the southern states in the Revolution
ary war, which was then complaine
Of, for the undistinguishing rapacit
of the troops who composed it.