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ed to admit the new state on may 31 5 292 5 blount conspiracy edit throughout the 1780s and 1790s william blount and his brothers gradually bought up large amounts of western lands acquiring over 2 5 million acres by the mid 1790s 5 298 much of this land was bought on credit pushing the family deeply into debt in 1795 the market for western lands collapsed and land prices plummeted a number of land speculators including blount associate david allison went bankrupt 5 301 blount partnered with philadelphia physician nicholas romayne in an attempt to sell land to british investors but their efforts were unsuccessful 5 300 compounding blount s problems timothy pickering who despised blount replaced henry knox as secretary of war in 1795 5 271 blount owned slaves as well 10 following france s defeat of spain in the war of the pyrenees land speculators already on the financial brink worried that the french would eventually gain control of spanish controlled louisiana and shut off american access to the mississippi river 5 302 in hopes of preventing this blount and his friend indian agent john chisholm concocted a plan to allow the british to gain control of spanish controlled louisiana and florida expecting them in turn to give free access to both new orleans and the mississippi river to american merchants the plan called for american territorial militias with the aid of the british royal navy to attack new madrid new orleans and pensacola 5 307 to help carry out the plan blount recruited romayne who never showed more than lukewarm support for the idea and knoxville merchant james carey chisholm meanwhile sailed to england to recruit british supporters for the plan in april 1797 carey was at the tellico blockhouse near knoxville when he gave a government agent a letter from blount outlining the conspiracy the agent turned the letter over to his superior colonel david henley in knoxville and henley in turn sent it to pickering elated at the opportunity to crush blount pickering turned the letter over to president john adams 5 316 determining that the actions of blount a senator from tennessee constituted a crime adams sent blount s letter to the senate where it was presented on july 3 1797 while blount was out for a walk when blount returned the clerk read the contents of the letter aloud as blount stood in stunned silence vice president thomas jefferson asked blount if he had written the letter blount gave an evasive answer and asked that the matter be postponed until the following day which was granted 5 316 on july 4 blount refused to return to the senate and had cocke read a letter which again requested more time 5 319 the senate rejected this request and formed an investigative committee ordered to testify before the committee blount initially attempted to flee by ship to north carolina but federal deputies seized the ship and most of his belongings on july 7 blount after consulting with attorneys alexander dallas and jared ingersoll testified before the committee and denied writing the letter the following day the house of representatives voted 41 to 30 to hold impeachment hearings and the senate voted 25 to 1 to sequester blount s seat effectively expelling him with henry tazewell casting the lone dissenting vote 5 321 2 drawing depicting a brawl between congressmen matthew lyon and roger griswold which took place in february 1798 following an incident that happened a few weeks prior in preparation for blount s impeachment hearings rather than await trial blount posted bail and fled to tennessee 5 323 chisholm remained in england in a debtors prison for several months and confessed the entire scheme upon his return romayne was arrested and forced to testify before the committee where he confessed to his part in the conspiracy 11 the house continued to consider evidence for blount s impeachment in early 1798 at one session on january 30 a bizarre incident erupted between two congressmen matthew lyon and roger griswold in connection with the hearings 12 a few weeks later a brawl between the two representatives occurred 13 the senate convened as a court of impeachment for the impeachment trial on december 17 1798 though blount refused to attend in spite of a visit to knoxville from the senate sergeant at arms 5 339 the senate heard arguments from his counsel who argued lack of jurisdiction because blount had not been an officer within the meaning of article ii nor was he now an officer since he had been expelled and now held no federal office on january 11 1799 the senate voted 14 to 11 to dismiss the impeachment for lack of jurisdiction 14 the ruling left unclear which or both of the two arguments were dispositive though it became generally accepted that impeachment did not extend to senators 11 the unraveling of the conspiracy destroyed blount s reputation at the national level and touched off a series of accusations between federalists and anti federalists george washington called for swift justice against blount and hoped he would be held in detestation by all good men 15 abigail adams called the conspiracy a diabolical plot 11 and bemoaned the fact that there was no guillotine in philadelphia 5 318 pickering argued the conspiracy was part of a greater french plot and accused thomas jefferson of being involved oliver wolcott suggested the conspiracy was an attempt to blackmail spain 5 317 later life edit while blount s national reputation was ruined he remained popular in tennessee upon his return to knoxville in september 1797 he was paraded triumphantly through the city by a military procession led by james white and james stuart most of his old tennessee allies among them andrew jackson joseph anderson james white charles mcclung and william c c claiborne remained loyal and helped repair his image among locals blount likewise adopted a staunchly pro western attitude 5 325 328 graves of blount and his wife mary at the first presbyterian church cemetery in knoxville in 1798 congress appointed commissioners to survey the boundary between u s and cherokee lands set by the treaty of holston concerned the commissioners would run the boundary in a way that favored the cherokee over the settlers blount and sevier sent agents to harass the commissioners 5 335 to further push western interests they sent representatives to federal treaty negotiations at the tellico blockhouse in 1798 frustrating federal negotiators sent by congress and confusing cherokee representatives 5 337 in his report on the tellico treaty one of the commissioners elisha hall accused blount of trying to thwart the treaty and blount sued him for libel 5 337 after the suit was thrown out by judge david campbell blount sought campbell s impeachment calling him a meddling blockhead 5 339 in october 1798 william blount was elected to knox county s state senate seat following james white s resignation on december 3 he was named speaker of the senate 5 339 16 he spent his first few days in office pushing for judge campbell s impeachment the house voted to impeach campbell on december 17 but he was acquitted by the senate on december 26 5 340 41 in march 1800 an epidemic swept through knoxville and several members of the blount family fell ill blount was tending to his sick family when he too fell ill on march 11 5 345 after 10 days he died on the night of march 21 1800 he was buried at the first presbyterian church cemetery a few blocks from his home in knoxville his half brother willie consolidated the family estate and took charge of the education of blount s children 5 346 legacy edit copy of acts of the first congress signed by blount on display at the east tennessee history center in knoxville blount county tennessee is named after blount as is the town of blountville in sullivan county grainger county and maryville are both named after his wife mary grainger blount 17 william blount high school and mary blount elementary school both in blount county are named after blount and his wife respectively blount county alabama is named after william s younger half brother willie blount blount street in raleigh north carolina 18 and blount street in madison wisconsin 19 are both named in blount s honor other entities named for blount include fort blount which operated in jackson county tennessee in the 1790s and blount college the forerunner of the university of tennessee which was founded in knoxville in 1794 20 blount s home blount mansion still stands in knoxville and is currently a museum operated by the non profit blount mansion association the house has been designated a national historic landmark and is listed on the national register of historic places blount s childhood home in pitt county north carolina blount hall burned down in the 1960s though a historical marker stands near the site a life size bronze statue of blount is part of the signers hall exhibit at the national constitution center in philadelphia 21 a plaque in the first floor rotunda of the north carolina state capitol honors blount and the two other north carolina signers of the constitution richard dobbs spaight and hugh williamson 22 family edit blount s father jacob 1726 1789 married barbara gray the daughter of scottish businessman john gray and they had eight children william anne john gray louisa reading thomas jacob and barbara 23 after barbara gray s death jacob married hannah salter and they had five children though only two lived to maturity willie and sharpe 24 thomas blount represented north carolina in the u s house of representatives in the 1790s and 1800s willie blount was governor of tennessee from 1809 to 1815 william blount married mary grainger in 1778 17 and they had six children ann mary louisa william grainger richard blackledge barbara and eliza william grainger blount represented tennessee in the u s house of representatives from 1815 to 1819 mary louisa blount was married to congressman pleasant miller and barbara blount was married to general edmund p gaines 25 see also edit list of united states senators expelled or censured references edit chisholm hugh ed 1911 blount william encyclopædia britannica 11th ed cambridge university press 1 2 3 terry weeks william blount tennessee encyclopedia of history and culture 2010 accessed 10 september 2012 u s senate expulsion case of william blount of tennessee 1797 www senate gov retrieved january 30 2022 to arrest an impeached senator united states senate website accessed 10 september 2012 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 masterson william henry 1954 william blount baton rouge louisiana state university press isbn 978 0 8371 2308 0 cite book isbn date incompatibility help survey of historic sites and buildings rosefield north carolina national park service july 29 2004 retrieved january 15 2024 davis charles l 1896 a brief history of the north carolina troops on the continental establishment pdf james madison gaillard hund and james brown scott eds notes on the debates in the federal convention oxford university press 1920 accessed at the yale university avalon project website 11 september 2012 walter durham the southwest territory progression to statehood journal of east tennessee history vol 62 1990 p 7 congress slaveowners the washington post january 19 2022 retrieved july 10 2022 1 2 3 william eigelsbach the blount conspiracy notes of samuel sitgreaves on the questioning of dr nicholas romayne on july 13 and 14 1797 before the house impeachment committee journal of east tennessee history vol 66 1994 pp 81 94 breach of privilege february 8 1798 volume 7 library of congress retrieved july 18 2026 lyon griswold debate u s national park service retrieved july 18 2026 the first impeachment bernard c steiner and james mchenry the life and correspondence of james mchenry cleveland burrows brothers co 1907 historical constitutional officers of tennessee 1796 present territory south of the river ohio 1790 1796 archived 2013 10 29 at the wayback machine accessed 7 september 2012 1 2 mary rothrock the french broad holston country a history of knox county tennessee knoxville tenn east tennessee historical society 1972 pp 380 82 bob geary imagine blount street then imagine no role for you archived 2016 03 04 at the wayback machine independent weekly 16 february 2005 accessed 12 september 2012 origins of madison street names archived 2016 03 03 at the wayback machine wisconsin historical society 29 march 2006 retrieved 12 september 2012 milton klein university of tennessee tennessee encyclopedia of history and culture 2010 accessed 12 september 2012 national constitution center founding fathers archived 2012 09 15 at the wayback machine accessed 12 september 2012 touring the state capitol accessed 12 september 2012 westergard virginia 1983 parker and blount in florida virginia westergard entry for north carolina historical marker f 23 blount hall archived 2014 04 29 at the wayback machine 2008 accessed 14 september 2012 john hill wheeler reminiscences and memoris of north carolina and eminent north carolinians 1885 pp lvii lxi external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to william blount united states congress william blount id b000570 biographical directory of the united states congress blount mansion william blount papers archived 2015 10 22 at the wayback machine at the newberry library some account of the life and services of william blount book by general marcus wright published in 1884 includes extensive information on the blount conspiracy political offices new office governor of the southwest territory 1790 1796 succeeded by john sevier as governor of tennessee preceded by james white speaker of the tennessee senate 1798 1799 succeeded by alexander outlaw u s senate new seat u s shadow senator class 2 from the southwest territory 1796 served alongside william cocke succeeded by himself as u s senator from tennessee preceded by himself as shadow senator from the southwest territory u s senator class 2 from tennessee 1796 1797 served alongside william cocke succeeded by joseph anderson v t e united states senators from tennessee class 1 cocke a jackson smith j anderson campbell eaton grundy foster grundy nicholson foster turney jones johnson patterson brownlow johnson key bailey h jackson whitthorne bate frazier lea mckellar gore sr brock iii sasser frist corker blackburn class 2 blount j anderson cocke smith whiteside campbell wharton williams a jackson white a anderson jarnagin bell nicholson fowler cooper harris turley carmack taylor sanders webb shields tyson brock i hull bachman berry stewart kefauver walters bass baker gore jr mathews thompson alexander hagerty v t e constitution of the united states articles preamble i ii iii iv v vi vii amendments bill of rights 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1795 1804 11 12 reconstruction 13 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