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have been obtained at all if Sevier and the other 

 frontier leaders had not carried on their destructive 

 counter-inroads into the Cherokee and Upper Creek 

 country, and if under Robertson's orders Nickajack 

 and Running Water had not been destroyed; while 

 the support of the Chickasaws and friendly Chero- 

 kees in stopping the Creek war parties was essential. 

 The Southwesterners owed thanks to General Wayne 

 and his army and to their own strong right hands; 

 but they had small cause for gratitude to the Fed- 

 eral Government. They owed still less to the North- 

 easterners, or indeed to any of the men of the East- 

 ern seaboard ; the benefits arising from Pinckney's 

 treaty form the only exception. This neglect brought 

 its own punishment. Blount and Sevier were nat- 

 urally inclined to Federalism, and it was probably 

 only the supineness of the Federal Government in 

 failing to support the Southwesterners against the 

 Indians which threw Tennessee, when it became a 

 State, into the arms of the Democratic party. 



However, peace was finally wrung from the In- 

 dians, and by the beginning of 1796 the outrages 

 ceased. The frontiers, north and south alike, en- 

 joyed a respite from Indian warfare for the first 

 time in a generation ; nor was the peace interrupted 

 until fifteen years afterward. 



Throngs of emigrants had come into Tennessee. 

 A wagon road had been chopped to the Cumberland 

 District, and as the Indians gradually ceased their 

 ravages, the settlements about Nashville began to 

 grow as rapidly as the settlements along the Hoi- 



