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The State of Franklin.
Designs of a more dangerous nature and deeper die seem to glare in the western revolt ....

I have thought proper to issue this manifesto, hereby warning all persons concerned in the said revolt ...

that the honour of this State has been particularly wounded, by seizing that by violence which, in time, no doubt, would have been obtained by consent, when the terms of separation would have been explained or stipulated, to the mutual satisfaction of the mother and new State....

Let your proposals be consistent with the honour of the State to accede to, which by your allegiance as good citizens, you cannot violate and I make no doubt but her generosity, in time, will meet your wishes .-- Governor Alexander Martin: Manifesto against the State of Franklin, April 25, 1785.
To the shrewd diplomacy of Joseph Martin, who held the Cherokees in check during the period of the King's Mountain campaign, the settlers in the valleys of the Watauga and the Holston owed their temporary immunity from Indian attack.