A FOREWORD. THE SPEAKER'S ROOMS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON, D. C., March 14, 1918. DEAR MR. Heiskell: It is a strange fact that two of the greatest English-speaking soldiers that ever lived, Oliver Cromwell and Andrew Jackson, never sent a squadron into the field until they were past middle life. I think that General Jackson's two victories, one at the Horseshoe Bend and the other at New Orleans, are two of the most remarkable achievements in military annals. His victory at New Orleans saved us, in my judgment, another war with Great Britain, and perhaps changed the history of the world. I know quite well that it changed the history of the United States, as it made Jackson President of the United States for eight years and Van Buren Vice-President for four years. Colonel William Peters Hepburne, of Iowa, was a Lieutenant Colonel at that time. He was always more or less interested in military affairs, and once made an estimate calculating out of the number of shots fired the number of men hit. In ten or twelve of the most famous battles in the world, the number of British hit by Jackson's men, like Abou Ben Adhem, led all the rest; not only led all the rest, but left them out of sight. Your friend, CHAMP CLARK. THE SETTLER. His echoing axe the settler swung Amid the sea-like solitude, And rushing, thundering, down were flung The Titans of the wood; Loud shrieked the eagle as he dashed From out his mossy nest, which crashed And the first sun-light, leaping, flashed On the wolf's haunt below. Rude was the garb, and strong the frame Contributed their spoil; The soul that warmed that frame disdained The tinsel, gaud, and glare, that reigned Where men their crowds collect; The simple fur, untrimmed, unstained, This forest tamer decked. The paths which wound mid gorgeous trees, The streams whose bright lips kissed their flowers, The winds that swelled their harmonies Through those sun-hiding bowers, The temple vast-the green arcade, The nestling vale-the grassy glade, Dark cave and swampy lairThese scenes and sounds majestic, made His world and pleasures, there. -Alford B. Street. CHAPTER 2. Tennessee and Its Pioneers-The Wilderness Road -Daniel Boone's Death-Byron's Tribute to Boone-Marking the Trail-Cherokee Cession of South West Point to the United PAGE. CHAPTER 7. William Blount-Ordinance of 1787 and Blount's Journal as Governor of the Territory South of the Ohio River. 102-127 CHAPTER 11. The Cherokees-Messages of Presidents Monroe, CHAPTER 13. Cherokees-Two Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States-Cherokee Nation vs. State of Georgia- The State of Georgia vs. Samuel A. Worcester.. CHAPTER 14. Cherokees-Treaty of New Eschota-The Great Removal-General Scott's Proclamation and Letters-Death of John Ross-Eulogy-Sequoya and Cherokee Alphabet- Re-united Cherokees-Luke Lea, Indian Agent-Capt. Hene- gar's Letter-Fort Loudon and John H. DeWitt's Speech. 249-280 CHAPTER 15. The Cherokees-Timberlake's Memoirs of Water |