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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 24: White vendetta. (search)
party suffered for that crime? It is but turn about. So reason all the tribe of Sheriff Frank. A murder was committed in the previous year. Who doubts that some of the Bulliner family had marked this day for Sisney's death? On searching out the facts, I find a story of vendetta in the Prairie lands, which for vindictive passion equals the most brutal quarrels in Ajaccio and the Monte d'oro; almost rivals in atrocity the blood feuds of the two Cherokee factions in Vinta between Stand Watie and Jack Ross. Colonel Sisney and George Bulliner were neighbours, living on adjoining farms, near Carterville. Sisney had a farm of three hundred and sixty acres, Bulliner a farm, a saw mill, and a woollen mill. Sisney, a native of the country, had served in the war, and gained the rank of captain. How he obtained the grade of colonel, no one seems to know; he may have been commissioned in the way of Colonel Brown. Bulliner was a new comer, who had left Tennessee, his native state, d
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 26: Cherokee feuds. (search)
personal property, and equal laws. Two brothers, named Strong Buck and Stand Watie, were the active radical chiefs; Strong Buck the thinker, Stand Watie the soldiWatie the soldier of their band. Adair was but a nominal head. Strong Buck had been sent by Elias Boudinot, a kindly French planter, to a good school, where he had learned to reaon him, and with yells and curses plunged their knives into his heart. Stand Watie took up the mission of avenging his brother's blood, and in the Cherokee fashiod, the Cherokees have been ranged in opposite camps; one side adhering to Stand Watie, while the other side have adhered to Ross. All those who wished to settle dowthe land, adopt White customs, and prepare for citizenship, rallied round Stand Watie and Adair. All braves and hunters who preferred to roam and thieve, and keep tes, and murdering helpless enemies, on a secret sign from Ross. Except Stand Watie, every man among the radical party was afraid of this Pin League and these Ligh
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 31: Red and Black. (search)
the son of Strong Buck very strange. Yet this strange sight was not so galling to the Cherokee as the fact that a coward and a slave should be seen ruling, even for a moment, the councils of an assembly which has the power of dealing with the rights of a people like the Cherokees --a people untameably brave and immemorially free. Everyone, sighs the young Cherokee, appears to have rights in this republic except the original owners of the soil. The son of Strong Buck and nephew of Stand Watie cannot see that this new position of the Negro is an accident, not a growth, having no better foundation than the quicksands of a party vote. Even if the Cherokee intellect could grasp the situation as a whole, such contrasts as those presented at Washington and in Talequah would still be great. A contrast in the Negro's position lies at his gate, and startles him on passing his frontier line. To the south of Red River, a Negro may be anything for which he possesses brain enough-from sw