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under which those acts were due, impressed me with a strong conviction that it was the intention of our State authorities, by the creation of Home Guards and otherwise, to overawe the people of East Tennessee, to prevent a fair election on the 8th of June, and to compel us to submit to what I regarded as the unconstitutional acts of our Legislature. I advised the people everywhere, publicly and privately, to arm themselves as they best could, and to call on the Government of the United States to sustain them with men, money and arms. The reasons why I thought it our duty not to submit to the result of the election of the 8th of June were fully stated in the Declaration of Grievances adopted by the Greensville Convention, which was prepared by me, although the resolutions were wholly different from those which I submitted. My resolutions, while distinctly declaring an unalterable purpose not to submit to the action of an unconstitutional majority, contemplated no division of the Sta