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The Georgians were thus far from guiltless them- 

 selves, though at this time they were more sinned 

 against than sinning ; but in the Tennessee Territory 

 the white settlers behaved very well throughout these 

 years, and showed both patience and fairness in their 

 treatment of the Indians. Blount did his best to 

 prevent outrages, and Sevier and Robertson heartily 

 seconded him. In spite of the grumbling of the 

 frontiersmen, and in spite of repeated and almost 

 intolerable provocation in the way of Indian forays, 

 Blount steadily refused to allow counter-expeditions 

 into the Indian territory, and stopped both the Ten- 

 nesseeans and Kentuckians when they prepared to 

 make such expeditions. 65 Judge Campbell, the same 

 man who was himself attacked by the Indians when 

 returning from his circuit, in his charge to the 

 Grand Jury at the end of 1791, particularly warned 

 them to stop any lawless attack upon the Indians. 

 In November, 1792, when five Creeks, headed by 

 a Scotch half-breed, retreated to the Cherokee town 

 of Chiloa with stolen horses, a band of fifty whites 

 gathered to march after them and destroy the Cher- 

 okee town; but Sevier dispersed them and made 

 them go to their own homes. The following Feb- 

 ruary a still larger band gathered to attack the 

 Cherokee towns and were dispersed by Blount him- 

 self. Robertson, in the summer of 1793, prevented 

 militia parties from crossing the Tennessee in re- 

 taliation. In October, 1794, the Grand Jury of 



* Robertson MSS., Blount to Robertson, Jan. 8, 1793; to 

 Benjamin Logan, Nov.i, 1794, etc. 



