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Trials of Offenders Against Treaties

Blount agonizes over the two narrowly averted invasions of Cherokee towns and proposes that a tribunal be created with jurisdiction over trials of offenders agains treaties.

1793

02

01

Knoxville

Cited in Blount to Knox, 02/12/1793, Knox to Lear, 02/28/1793, Knox to Lear, 03/11/1793, and Knox to Blount, 05/14/1793.

Cited document addressed to the War Office

Henry Knox

William Blount

infantry of his regiment

Lieutenant of Cavalry

offenders against treaties

Judges of this territory

Knoxville

Cherokee Country

Gamble's [station]

Cherokee towns

Holston to Little River on the frontiers

my order to Lieutenant Colonel Kelly

my Proclamation

letter from Colonel White

mistaken zeal to serve their country

existing treaty

tribunal

...admitting "a mistaken zeal to serve their country" had been the cause of their gathering, I am apprehensive they would not have dispersed before they had destroyed as many as they could of the Cherokee Towns...Two such bold attempts to violate the existing treaty between the Cherokees and the United States seem in strong terms to point out the propriety and necessity of some tribunal being established in this country for the trial of offenders against treaties.

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