ST. CLAIR AND WAYNE 



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CHAPTER III 



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THE SOUTHWEST TERRITORY, I/SS-I/QO 



DURING the years 1788 and 1789 there was 

 much disquiet and restlessness throughout the 

 Southwestern territory, the land lying between Ken- 

 tucky and the Southern Indians. The disturbances 

 caused by the erection of the State of Franklin were 

 subsiding, the authority of North Carolina was re- 

 established over the whole territory, and by degrees 

 a more assured and healthy feeling began to prevail 

 among the settlers; but as yet their future was by 

 no means certain, nor was their lot irrevocably cast 

 in with that of their fellows in the other portions of 

 the Union. 



As already said, the sense of national unity among 

 the frontiersmen was small. The men of the Cum- 

 berland in writing to the Creeks spoke of the Frank- 

 lin people as if they belonged to an entirely distinct 

 nation, and as if a war with or by one community 

 concerned in no way the other ;* while the leaders of 



1 Robertson MSS. Robertson to McGillivray, Nashville, 

 1788. "Those aggressors live in a different state and are gov- 

 erned by different laws, consequently we are not culpable for 

 their misconduct." 



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