260, 295, 365, 394, 397, 410, 412, 417, 427, 473, etc.; _Knoxville Gazette_, Sept.

26, 1794.

For further allusion to Clark's settlement, see next chapter.] Blount's Faithful Efforts to Preserve the Peace.
The Georgians were thus far from guiltless themselves, though at this time they were more sinned against than sinning; but in the Tennessee Territory the white settlers behaved very well throughout these years, and showed both patience and fairness in their treatment of the Indians.
Blount did his best to prevent outrages, and Sevier and Robertson heartily seconded him.

In spite of the grumbling of the frontiersmen, and in spite of repeated and almost intolerable provocation in the way of Indian forays, Blount steadily refused to allow counter-expeditions into the Indian territory, and stopped both the Tennesseeans and Kentuckians when they prepared to make such expeditions.

[Footnote: Robertson MSS., Blount to Robertson, Jan.