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the community, at least to the extent of becoming 

 Democratic and anti-Federal; for the people felt 

 that the Easterners did not sympathize with them 

 either in their contests with the Indians or in their 

 desire to control the Mississippi and the further 

 West. They grew to regard with particular vin- 

 dictiveness the Federalists, the aristocrats, as they 

 styled them, of the Southern seaboard States, nota- 

 bly of Virginia and South Carolina. 



One pathetic feature of the paper was the recur- 

 rence of advertisements by persons whose friends 

 and kinsfolk had been carried off by the Indians, 

 and who anxiously sought any trace of them. 



But the "Gazette" was used for the expression of 

 opinions not only by the whites, but occasionally 

 even by an Indian. One of the Cherokee chiefs, the 

 Red Bird, put into the "Gazette," for two buckskins, 

 a talk to the Cherokee chief of the Upper Towns, 

 in which he especially warned him to leave alone 

 one William Cocke, "the white man who lived 

 among the mulberry trees," for, said Red Bird, 

 "the mulberry man talks very strong and runs very 

 fast"; this same Cocke being afterward one of the 

 first two Senators from Tennessee. The Red Bird 

 ended his letter by the expression of the rather 

 quaint wish, "that all the bad people on both sides 

 were laid in- the ground, for then there would not 

 be so many mush men trying to make people to 

 believe they were warriors." 7 



Blount brought his family to Tennessee at once, 



1 "Knoxville Gazette," November 3, 1792. 



