. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. ut in 1787 Governor Rich-ard Creswell of North Carolina issued a proclamation, declaring the gov-ernment of Franklin to be unlawful, and its officers and supporters tobe rebels, and demanding that they at once abandon their governmentand acknowledge Franklin still to be a part of North Carolina. Thiscommand the citizens of Franklin at first refused to obey, but as NorthCarolina sent troops against them they were overpowered and obliged toyield to Governor Creswells demands. Governor Sevier was arrested andimprisoned, but was soon relea
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. ut in 1787 Governor Rich-ard Creswell of North Carolina issued a proclamation, declaring the gov-ernment of Franklin to be unlawful, and its officers and supporters tobe rebels, and demanding that they at once abandon their governmentand acknowledge Franklin still to be a part of North Carolina. Thiscommand the citizens of Franklin at first refused to obey, but as NorthCarolina sent troops against them they were overpowered and obliged toyield to Governor Creswells demands. Governor Sevier was arrested andimprisoned, but was soon released, and took the oath of allegiance to theUnited States. Franklin became again the Washington District, andwas reunited to North Carolina. It was ceded to the United StatesFebruary 25, 1790, between which time and June 1, 1796, when it wasadmitted to the Union as the state of Tennessee, it was continued in theterritory south of the Ohio river. This was a territory only in name, forit never had a territorial government. Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, i8qi. Vol. NECESSITY OF RECURRING TO FUNDAMENTALPRINCIPLES The history of the development and formation of our governmentplainly shows that the people and the framers of the Constitution weredesirous of establishing a government which would secure the greatestrights to the individual consistent with the restricted rights of the col-lective. To accomplish this was no mean problem. Naturally there wereembodied in this plan two essentially antagonistic principles, and the ques-tion was how to place a check upon these principles so as to prevent onefrom asserting itself over the other. This was finally solved by adoptinga third principle—a principle of fundamental law. All preceding and existing constitutional governments embodied oneor both of these principles, but none of them the third. This was purely ofAmerican origin. It was this principle that gave life and substance to theConstitution. The whole fabric of govern
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