Such are the joys of peace, so different from the miseries of demoniac war.

At length the festivities were closed, and all began to prepare to retire to sleep.
The Cherokees were neutral in the war between the whites and the Creek Indians.

It was very important for them to maintain this neutrality strictly, that they might not draw down upon themselves the vengeance of either party.

Some of the Cherokees now began to feel anxious lest a war-party of the Creeks should come along and find them entertaining a war-party of whites, who were entering their country as spies.

They therefore held an interview with one of the negroes, and requested him to inform Mr.Crockett that should a war-party come and find his men in the Cherokee village, not only would they put all the white men to death, but there would be also the indiscriminate massacre of all the men, women, and children in the Cherokee lodges.
Crockett, wrapped in his blanket, was half asleep when this message was brought to him.