Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-01-29

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was wounded near the Generals and
died of his wounds on the 9th of June;
on Sunday the 18th of May, man and
two girls were fired on by the Indians
within four miles of Nashville; the
man and one girl escaped, the other
was tomahawked by the Indians. On
the Goth of June, 1899, Zeigler's Station,
within two miles of Bledsoe's Lick,
was attacked by party of Indians,
first in the afternoon and again by
night; they killed five persons, burnl
one in the station and wounded four
others. three escaped unhurt
Gov. Bount arrived at Nashville
few days before the 10th of July, 1899.
and ordered three hundred militia into
actual service, under the command of
Maj. Sharpe, an old experienced cont
mental officer. for the protection of the
southwestern frontiers, and to be posted
at proper distances in well built block
houses and stockade forts, which in
great measure relieved and silenced
the fears and complaints of the inhabi-
tants. These posts were intended to be
kept up so long as the danger existed;
during this summer, whilst one man
worked, another was obliged to stand
sentinel; whilst one man went to the
spring to drink, another was obliged to
guard him with gun in his hands, at
a convenient place. Some Cherokees
came about this time to Nashville to
attend the ensuing conferences; they
gave information that large party of
Creeks had passed the Tennessee on
their way to Nashville to take hair as
they called it, and to steal horses. On
the 10th they had taken eleven horses,
and had frequently fired on the inhabi-
tants as they passed from one part of
the district to another; they took seven
teen horses after the Governors arri
val. After the treaty at Nashville,
which ended on the 10th of August,
1892, Gov. Blount without loss of time
repaired to Knoxville, where he ar
rived few days before the 25th of
August On the 31st of August, an at.
tack was made on John Birkley and
his son in his peach orchard near Bled-
soes Lick; the former was wounded,
but bravely returned the fire and killed
an Indian in the act of scalping his
son. On the night of the 9th of Au.
gust, party of fifteen Greeks put fire
to Capt. Morgan's house, near the
same place; the fire was extinguished
and the party repulsed by the aid of
Capt Lusk's company stationed for the
protection of the frontiers. On the
preceding night the same party opened
the stables of James Douglass and
took his horses; the next day Samuel
Wilson fell in with them, wounded one.
put the party to flight and regained
the horses, gun and bloody blanket.
Shortly before the 11th of August, 1899,
the Indians killed boy and wounded
man near Bledsoe's Lick.
Loud complaints began now to be
made by the people of Nero. The
treaty of New York in 1890, they al.
legged had taught the defenceless in.
habitants of Nero, to hope for security,
but they were permitted only for
short time to indulge in that hope; the
Creeks had killed, scalped, captivated
and plundered the people of this dis.
trict, as if they had received an annuity
for so doing. What article of the
treaty, it was:asked, had they COM
piled with? Had they run the line?
No, and the nation at large had no
thought of it. Had they delivered the
white prisoners or negroes? No; at
least, there were many which they had
not delivered nor would deliver unless
they were purchased; they considered
white prisoners as property, and asked
the price of negro for the ransom of
each. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Mayfield
had at that time, August 1909, to la
ment sons in that situation. An opinion
prevailed at this time but too generally
in the interior OF the United States that
the butcheries and robberies committed
by the Indians on the frontier settlers,
were provoked by intrusions upon the
Indian lands. This opinion was certain.
ly not correct with respect to the Creeks
and Cherokees since the treaties of
New York and Holston. The Creeks
never had claim to any lands within
the southwestern territory, nor even
north of the Tennessee. We have al
ready examined the merits of the
Cherokee claim to any lands on the
waters Of Cumberland. Their behavior
at the period we are now speaking,
could only arise from thirst of blood.
provoked by xterritorial stimulants,
together with the desire to make
slaves of the frontier settlers, and the
cupidity of gain to be acquired by the
sales of stolen horses. In this year
they attacked Hickman's Station. d.
Castleman, z. Martin and others, went
to Elk River and killed one or two In
dians. On Saturday the 9th of Octo.
Der, company of travellers on their
way from Kentucky through the ter.
ritory, were fired upon in the wilder.
ness, two men were killed and one
said to be mortally wounded. The
party which attacked this company
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