A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . rs, could itbe obtained, would be one of extremeinterest and curiosity, and especiallyappropriate to a work like mine. Iknew next to nothing then of the Cher-okees. I had been in Europe whentheir cause was brought so eloquentlybefore the public by Mr. Wirt, and others. The hint I speakof led me to ask about them. The moreI heard, the more I became obtained letters to their leading menand went into the nation. Circum-stances,
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . rs, could itbe obtained, would be one of extremeinterest and curiosity, and especiallyappropriate to a work like mine. Iknew next to nothing then of the Cher-okees. I had been in Europe whentheir cause was brought so eloquentlybefore the public by Mr. Wirt, and others. The hint I speakof led me to ask about them. The moreI heard, the more I became obtained letters to their leading menand went into the nation. Circum-stances, however, had induced me torelinquish my first purpose of pro-ceeding so far as the residence of , their Principal Chief. But Iwas told Mr. Ross possessed a seriesof letters which had been sent to himby his predecessor in office, Chas. , detailing memoranda for the *Judge Hugh Lawson White and David led a committee for a Payne massmeeting at Knoxville, but Payne declined ap-pearing. He later attended a public dinner. Hewent to Knoxville via Calhoun and Athens,Tenn. **Wm. A. Tennille, ancestor of the JOHN HOWARD PAYNE, author of world-famous song, Home, Sweet Home, whowas arrested by the Georgia Guard in 1835. 56 A History of Rome and Floyd County earlier history of his country, and thathe himself had taken up the narra-tive where it was discontinued by theextending of it to the year 1835. Iwas encouraged to believe that wereI to call on Mr. Ross he would notonly readily allow me the use of thesemanuscripts, but be gratified in anopportunity of seeing them made pub-lic. I therefore resumed my originalintention and on the 28th of last Sep-tember rode into Tennessee to the res-idence of Mr. Ross. By Mr. Ross I was received withunlooked-for cordiality and felt the deeper sympathy for him be-cause I found him driven by the hardpolicy against his nation from a splen-did abode to a log hut of but one sin-gle room, and scarcely
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