[Footnote: _Knoxville Gazette_, June 2, 1792.] Chickamaugas Make Open War.
Try to Deceive Blount.
When such outrages were committed at the very time the treaty was being held, it was hopeless to expect peace.

In September the Chickamaugas threw off the mask and made open war.

When the news was received Blount called out the militia and sent word to Robertson that some friendly Cherokees had given warning that a big war party was about to fall on the settlements round Nashville.

[Footnote: American State Papers, IV., Blount to Secretary of War, Sept.

11, 1792.] Finding that the warning had been given, the Chickamauga chiefs sought to lull their foes into security by a rather adroit peace of treachery.