170 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
ware of any purpose on the part of the Government to secure any 
further cession of land from them; that they had protested vigorously 
and consistently for several days against yielding any more territory, 
but were met with such persistent and threatening demands from Govy- 
ernor Blount on the subject that they were forced to yield; that they had 
no confidence that the North Carolinians would attach any sacredness 
to the new boundary, in fact they were already settling beyond it; and 
that the annuity stipulated in the treaty of 1791, as compensation for 
the cession, was entirely inadequate. They therefore asked an increase 
of the annuity from $1,000 to $1,500, and furthermore demanded that 
the white people who had settled south of the ridge dividing the waters 
of Little River from those of the Tennessee should be removed, and that 
such ridge should be the barrier. 
President Washington, believing their demand to be a just one, and 
also desiring that the delegation should carry home a favorable report 
of the attitude and disposition of the Government toward them, sub- 
mitted the matter to the Senate! and requested the advice of that body 
as to the propriety of attaching an additional article to the treaty of 
1791 which should increase the annuity from $1,000 to $1,500. 
Annuity increased.—To this proposition the Senate gave its advice 
and consent,” and what is mentioned in the United States Statutes at 
Large as a treaty concluded and proclaimed February 17, 1792,° be- 
came the law of the land. 
WAR WITH CHEROKEES, 
This concession did not, however, in any large degree heal the differ- 
ences and antagonisms existing between the Indians and the border 
settlers, with whom they were brought in constant contact. Even while 
the treaty of 1792 was being negotiated by the representatives of the 
Cherokees at the capital of the nation, a portion of their young war- 
riors were consummating arrangements for the precipitation of a general 
war with the whites, and in September, 1792, a party of upwards of 700 
Cherokee and Creek warriors attacked Buchanan’s Station, Tenn., within 
4 miles of Nashville. They were headed by the Cherokee chief John 
Watts, who was one of the signers of the treaty of Holston, and had he 
not been severely wounded early in the attack, it is likely the station 
would have been destroyed. 
A year later, between twelve and fifteen hundred Indians of the same 
tribes invaded the settlements on the Holston River and destroyed 
Cavitt’s Station, 7 miles below Knoxville.’ In fact, the intermediate 
periods between 1791 and 1795 were filled up by the incursions of smaller 

1 January 18, 1792. 
2 January 20, 1792. 
‘United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 42. 
‘This attack was made about midnight on the 30th of September, 1792. See Amer- 
ican State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 294. 
5American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 463. 
