The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-01-03

the force, which the Assembly had d.
rected 10 be raised 10 cut the road to
DAVIDSON, was being recruited: and
Col. James Martin. the indian agent,
went among the Indians TO prevail on
them to desist from hostiiities. AT
length, owardS the close of April,
General Shelby called together Upton.
M3xWeH and Hutchins, the Colonels
OF the three counties, and they united
IN urging that the only hope OF avert
ing b~loodshed was for North Carolina
TO send from Burke a thousand men
to uphold her. authority. Intent on
the supremacy of their faction and
On the suppression OF their opponents.
they sought to strengthen their cause
by a display OF force that would deter
the Franks from perSEsting in their
defiance. But it must not be forgot
ten that they held commissions from
the State charging them with the duty
Of uphoIdfng and maintaining her SUI
pfemacy. CasNelt. however, relied on
Sentler means Of persuasion and hop
ed for the healing influences of times
In the meanwhile, further in the in
tel or the savages were murda-in, the
settlers. The Mississippi was o'aimed
by the SpaniardS, who. from their
stronghold at Mobile. had free COM
m~unlcation with the tribes in the in
terror; while the F'renchmen on the
pper Mississippi had trade relations
with the Indians, which bred a jeal-
Ousy of the e~ncroaching pioneers. The
avage were thus Influenced to CON
tinual warfare. In June. from the
Cumberland came a cry for immediate
help. Anthony hle4soe wrotc. Moth
ing but the distress Of L bleeding
country could inCuce me- to trnuble
you on 50 disc grcec.ble subject.
1nclOSed y1u ave a list Of the killed
in this quarter since our departure
from this country to the Assembly.
This, with ;he numbers wounded, with
the large numbers of horses stolen
from the lnh ,bitants has in = degree,
Tagged the spirits Of the people" Ana
the next month, James Robertson a0-
Vised Governor CaSWeI that there had
been a hot war with the Chickamauga
Indians; that he a raised 100 men
and gone to the front, where he found
that the Indians had been Joined by
E'renchmen from Detroit who We're in
flaming them to hostility. In one of
the encounters, three Frenchmen and
a French woman had been killed. He
urged the Governor to hurry to the
force the Assembly had ordered for
their protection. The commander of
that detachment. Major ThOma
Evans, had met with such obstacles
that the middle of August found him
still east of the Blue Ridge, and Cas-
we'll Indignantly ordered him to pro-
coed. not delaying to open the road
to Nashville, but pressing on to the
relief of the people. Evans, however,
could not scale the Allegheny Noun
tains. Diverted from the direct course,
he passed through Cumberland Gap
and made his way into Kentucky, his
men cheerfully enduring their march
through the wilderness where no sup
plies could be obtained. In Kentucky
he could purchase no provisions eth
er or public or private credit, and
was driven to furlough his men until
by their labor they could procure suf-
fcient GOD to last them to Nashville.
At length, in the middle Of October,
he reached Davidson county, after a
toilsome journey Of 400 miles. There
| he found the inhabitants were being
daily murdered, and he hurried advices
home hat he himself was hourly eX-
pectilg attack.
While such was III critical condition
on the Cumberland, on the Watuga
influences were silently at work, un-
dermining the foundations Of the new
State. The moderation and frmness
of the North Carolina Assembly, its
| tender of oblivion and remission of
taxes, together with the hope held out
of eventual consent to the separation.
had a softenlng influence on the pub
lie mind. But for a period there was
so much bitterness, and the current
| was so strong for separation that Cen
eral Sne1Dy nlI1S6ll yIelu0U 10 IL, re-
signed his commission as ~brigadieT,
retired from the service of North Car
DINA, and recommended to Governor
CasWell that separation should be con-
ceded. Yet Notwithstanding his de-
lection, and despite the eff
forts of Sewer to sustain his govern
ment, the enthusiasm that had attend
| ed the first movements for independ-
ence gradually disappeared. When
the August elections came on, only
two counties failed to elect representa-
tives to the North Carolina Assembly
In Greene, David Campbell, the pre-
siding judge Of Franklin State, n
in Washington, where the Sewer par
ty had been strong. Colonel Upton
| were elected to the Senate Sullivan
elected General Joseph Martin, and
Hawkins, sent to the House Of Com