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, or to be apprehended; but Lyttleton set aside their decision as an invasion of the prerogative, which alone could treat of peace or war, and give directions for training and employing the militia. Having inflamed the colonists by asserting authority so exclusive, he next made a demand on the Head- chap. XV.} 1759. men and Warriors of the towns on the branches of the Tennessee, to give him satisfaction for the past, Lyttleton's Letter to the emperor Old Hop and the Little Carpenter, 22 May. 1759.by which, as he explained, was meant that a certain number of Cherokees guilty of the murders, should be delivered up or be put to death in their nation. Governor Lyttleton to Lords of Trade, 22 October, 1759. This would only make bad worse, answered the Red Men; the Great Warrior will never consent to it; at the same time they entreated peace. Old Hop and Little Carpenter to Gov. Lyttleton, 27 June, 1759. We live at present in great harmony, wrote Demere from Fort Loudoun; and t