| 1887 - 698 pages
...the Tennessee arms in a servile service by aiding to carry into execution at the point of the hayonet a treaty made by a lean minority against the will...common rights of humanity and justice had been denied them.1 • * REPORT OF GENERAL .IOHN E. WOOL. Again, February 18, 1837, General John E. Wool, of the... | |
| 1900 - 728 pages
...an indignant address to his men in which he declared that he would never dishonor the Tennessee arms by aiding to carry into execution at the point of...against the will and authority of the Cherokee people. He stated further that he had given the Cherokee all the protection in his power, the whites needing... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1900 - 726 pages
...dishonor the Tennessee arms by aiding to carry into execution at the point of the bayonet a treat}' made by a lean minority against the will and authority of the Cherokee people. He stated further that he had given the Cherokee all the protection in his power, the whites needing... | |
| Rachel Caroline Eaton - Cherokee Indians - 1914 - 238 pages
...dishonor the Tennessee arms in a servile service by aiding in carrying into execution at the point of a bayonet a treaty made by a lean minority against the will and authority of the Cherokee people, and disbanding his brigade he went home in disgust.20 Even the members of the Treaty party to whom... | |
| Rachel Caroline Eaton - Cherokee Indians - 1921 - 168 pages
...dishonor the Tennessee arms in a servile service by aiding in carrying into execution, at the point of a bayonet, a treaty made by a lean minority against the will and authority of the Cherokee people; disbanding his brigade he went home in disgust.20 Even the members of the Treaty party, to whom the... | |
| Ronald N. Satz - History - 1979 - 124 pages
...he disbanded his regiment in September 1836 and told his men that he would never dishonor Tennessee by "aiding to carry into execution at the point of...against the will and authority of the Cherokee people." Other soldiers rounded up the Cherokees at bayonet point and herded them into temporary, wooden stockades... | |
| Grace Steele Woodward - History - 1963 - 404 pages
...Threatening to resign his commission, Dunlap asserted that he would never dishonor the Tennessee arms "by aiding to carry into execution at the point of...minority against the will and authority of the Cherokee people."7 5 Ibid., 272. 6 Ibid., 271. " Govan and Livingood, The Chattanooga Country, 92. 194 Meanwhile,... | |
| Grant Foreman - Social Science - 1976 - 452 pages
...cit., 126. the Tennessee arms by aiding to carry into execution at the point of the bayonet a treaty by a lean minority against the will and authority of the Cherokee people. A confidential agent sent to report upon the situation wrote in September, 1837, that opposition to... | |
| Robert M. Utley, Wilcomb E. Washburn - Fiction - 2002 - 324 pages
...Finally Dunlap threatened to resign his commission, stating that he would not bring dishonor on his state "by aiding to carry into execution at the point of...against the will and authority of the Cherokee people." Still the preparations went on. By 1838 two thousand Cherokees had reluctantly moved west, but fifteen... | |
| James Mooney - Business & Economics - 290 pages
...an indignant address to his men in which he declared that he would never dishonor the Tennessee arms by aiding to carry into execution at the point of...against the will and authority of the Cherokee people. He stated further that he had given the Cherokee all the protection in his power, the whites needing... | |
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