The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-11-08

Slotc VI TIdilhlln SOON udI >oU,cOV
in silver issued from the mint COZ
Charles Robertson-some neglected
history OF North Carolina) but never
theless the articles enumerated, Tor tho
time. Passed as current money. II
was at first confidently asserted that
this currency could not be counter
feited, but in this its advocates We're
mistaken. 1t was most all OF skins,
which passed from hand TO nand IN
bundles or bales. from the end Of
which the caudal appendages were al
lowed to prOtrude, to designate the
species of the animal. Before long
acute ~financiers affixed the tail OF the
otter to the skin OF the fox and the
raccoon, and thereby got the better OF
the receiver in about four shillings and
nine pence upon each petty.
The rapidity with which the above
named acts were passed show not only
great unanimlty aInonS the legislators.
but the remarkable ~aScen6ency which
Sewer had over the frontier people.
His word was literally their law. and
their absolute devotion to him was
what had enabled him to conquer his
greatly superior Y a m Now
with the strong militia organized and
equipped. he had no fear of the IN
dams, but he preferred peace to war.
and when Internal affairs Were once
set in order, he lost no time in dis
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capital. inviting the principal chief
tains to conference to arrange terms
on which the two races might live to-
gether in perpetual amity.'
Sewer was engaged in almost every
Indian treaty on negotiation with the
Cherokees, Choctaws, ChickasaWs and
Chicamaugas and other Indian tribes
He, at last. from his honorable tactics
with the red men acquired the just
distinction of The Treaty Maker"
5 His more familiar sobriQuet among
5 the people and with the Indians was
/ "Nolachucky Jack" In the many
l treaties he negotiated with the In
| dams while governor of the state of
Franklin or at other times, prior and
r subsequent "the pipe" was always
/ lighted with North Carolina notes, Of
, which he had a trunk full in his nome
= on the ~Nolachucky, a~ggregating more
:; than 100000 dollars in North Caro-
t lima currency-the ~ntinent Taper
0 which was not worth 3 continental
4 exclamation.
v In 1855 the General Assembly Of
North Carolina, in session at Newborn
n passed an act to obliterate for all
It time the conduct Of the people OF the
o State of Franklin" provided they at
y once returned their allegiance TO the
# State of North Carolina, and appoint
h ed elections to be held in the difreren'
v N S1S1A
eral Assembly of North Carolina.
re 1t was a momentous cr.Ss in Sewer
ID career, and that also of the nearl
It, SO, 900 people whose we'll being an
le safety depended upon his continuini
i, to lie their leader-only two course
1t were open to him-either submission
er or open rebellion, and that he. througl
m it all, appreciated the gravity Of M
position, is shown by the tact that n
1r took no less than thirty days to deald
as upon his action He decided TO STAN
bv his people, and soon he had t
Re contend with the Colony Of North Car
rs nlina at arms length, with action an
- yigilance-political opponents hand
~ to-hand, with the Indians hip an
n thfgh and from tree to tree, but n
feared not, he faItered not, and n
Of failed not. -.
AS a necessary consequence, pupl
it opinion was divided betWeen the au
,o herents Of the State of Franklin an
Of the mother State of North Carolha
The next year presented d strang
V state Of affairs; two empires eXtehde
W at the same time over the same teTil
tory, and over the same people. Court
!, were held by both governments mn
ta,v officers appointed by both, to ea
~ ercise the same powers. Goyerno
SEVER and the State of Franklin Wer
\. opposed by the adherents or tn
~ mother state of North Carolina, lie
tf
u, by Col. JON 7 pton.
% In a lucLless hour, during the Ia
ne of 1888, there arose certain conserFa
>, five and unimasinatiye characters l
"A the principally of the Stat
ar of Franklin, who for unknown reason
- turned their '~legiances to the state c
their nativity, fo1sakins their gran
- and noble leader, Col. John Sewer, n
h Luissant governor OF the state {
eli franklin, whose proves was knoW
>. and acknowledged from Murphey I
the mountains ana Wh'
for years, had fought their battles Il
the leadership of Col. John Ilpto
- Who was the controlling spirit or the
az loyalist forces. Armed partisans {
hoth SEWER and Upton were paradin
n the country. each faction believing J
al tho justification Of their action II
- f.Iouarc of Governor Sewer continue
Iovai to the State OF Franklin, man
raining its laws and UNFOLDING /
nv courts of the State of No In Caroiln
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