Jackson, thereupon, also drew his weapon.

Once more friends interfered.

It is presumable that neither really desired the duel.

By killing Nolichucky Jack, Jackson would have ended his own career in Tennessee--if Sevier's tribe of sons had not, by a swifter means, ended it for him.

At this date Jackson was thirty-six.
Sevier was fifty-eight; and he had seventeen children.
The charges against Sevier, though pressed with all the force that his enemies could bring to bear, came to nothing.