They shrank back, and the Indian remained unharmed.
[Footnote: Haywood, p.

183.] Misconduct of the Frontiersmen.
As for young Kirk all that need be said is that he stands in the same category with Slim Tom, the Indian murderer.

He was a fair type of the low-class, brutal white borderer, whose inhumanity almost equalled that of the savage.

But Sevier must be judged by another standard.

He was a member of the Cincinnati, a correspondent of Franklin, a follower of Washington.