Milfort 131, 142.] The simple truth was that the Creeks could be kept quiet only when cowed by physical fear.

If the white men did not break the treaties, then the red men did.

It is idle to dispute about the rights or wrongs of the contests.

Two peoples, in two stages of culture which were separated by untold ages, stood face to face; one or the other had to perish; and the whites went forward from sheer necessity.
Growth of Immigration.
Throughout these years of Indian warfare the influx of settlers into the Holston and Cumberland regions steadily continued.

Men in search of homes, or seeking to acquire fortunes by the purchase of wild lands, came more and more freely to the Cumberland country as the settlers therein increased in number and became better able to cope with and repel their savage foes.