Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-07-22

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beads to distribute in the towns as they
went home, and tobacco, and desired
them when smoking to think of the
good talks held at that place. He also
presented pipe to take home; when
smoking with it, he desired them to
think of peace with the Chickasaws
The Tuckabatchie king said, it was
with his young warriors at home to
make peace with the Chickasaws. All
that he could promise was, that an
answer should be given to the proposal
for peace with the Chickasaws. He
had only taken them by the hand, not
by the arm. He had been like tree
about to fall, and Gov. Blount seemed
determined to raise him up; and that
at an early day an answer should be
given in respect to peace with the
Chlckasaws. Kattagiska, Cherokee
chief, said, he was of the same blood
with the Chickasaws; he wished the
Creeks to be reconciled to them.
The conferences began on the 18th
of October 1895, and ended on the Goth.
Many applications were made by the
Indians for their children to be edu.
Gated at the expense of the United
States, Gov. Blount recommended to
the Government to educate them on
the frontiers, to bring them up In
friendly habits with the youth of the
country, by which mean prejudices
would be eradicated; and they might
receive in time of peace lessons of
charity and benevolence from the
clergy intrusted with their education,
a better way of diffusing the blessings
of the gospel, he observed, than that
of destroying them by war. which in
times of hostility the clergy had some.
times eopiously recommended, And
with respect to the further protection
OF the frontiers, he recommended the
establishment of forts, at proper iu-
tervals, upon the north banks of the
Tennessee In his letter to Gen. Lee,
the Secretary of War, he said, peace
now already exists, and for the preser.
vation of it he advised posts of regular
troops upon the frontiers, and proposed
a plan for the civilization of the Indi.
ans. The enumeration already made,
he observed, shows that the territorial
government will shortly be at an end
perhaps, said he, it will not last longer
than the last day Of January. He
recommended Che present Indian agents
as men of worth and merit, General
Robertson being one of them as agent
for the chipkasavs Heating iu Nov,
ember that six howitzers which had
been brought to Nashville by Mr.. Eos,
ter, were sent down the river to the
.Chickasaws, notwithstanding his orders
'on the 10th of October to detain them:
he was greatly dissatisfied for fear of
ihe umbrage itmight give to the Creeks,
AID he Immediately requested of Gen.
Robertson to inform him whether he
Gen. Robertson had given orders to
that effect, observing at the same time
he had heard that Colonel Henly had
given them. The Secretary of War
had stated that these howitzers were
never intended for the Cbickasaws,
and were originally provided by Gen.
Knox for the defense of Nero district.
The Governor informed the Secretary
of War, that probably the howitzers
had been sent down by the agent of
the war department., Col. Henly, and
believed he was acquainted with the
Governors orders to Mr.. Robertson to
detain them at Nashville.
With respect to the internal affairs
of the territory, Gen. Robertson on the
18th of May 1895, finding that the
public safety no longer required the
arduous military labors which he had
so long sustained, and seeing withal
that the Nickajack expedition, though
it actually put an end to the war of
the Cherokees, was snarled at by the
Secretary, requested that the Governor
might consider his Office of Brigadier
General resigned from and after the
10Th of August ensuing.
The Governor by his proclamation,
called upon the members of Assembly
to meet together OH the last Monday of
June 1895. The object in view was,
that they might deliberate on the ques
ton whether the territory should be
formed into State, and to take meas
ures to bring it about. In their address
to him, they approved of his object iu
convening them, and were convinced
that the great body of their constitu'
ents were sensible of the many defects
in their then present mode of govern
ment, and of the great aud permanent
advantages to be derived from a change
and speedy representation in Congress-.
The General Assembly, they said,
during its present session, will en-
deavor to devise such means as may
have tendency to effect the desirable
object. They rejoioed that the calami-
ties of Indian warfare had then in
great measure ceased to exist, and so
long as remembrance of past suffer
ings shall continue, they declared they
should entertain grateful sense of
the Governors unwearied struggles
to promote general peacewith the
Indian tribes. the good effects of which
they now experienced. They passed
q law for enumerating the inhabitants,
to see whether they amounted to sixty
thousand or not; and made the new
county of Blount. They appointed
commissioners to confer with those
from South Carolina upon the practi-
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