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hich so much has been said and written, has met and adjourned. Why it was known as the Knoxville-Greenville Convention was because, in the fall of 1861, a large number of the prominent men of East Tennessee met at Greenville, and drew up papers memorializing the Legislature to permit the separation of East Tennessee. This thing that body would not do. The loyal people, a few months ago, determined upon a resuscitation of the Greenville Convention, and appointed as the time of meeting the 12th inst. Until within a month past the masses of the people of this section, and the prominent men beside, have been strongly in favor of separation from the disloyal portions of the State known as Middle and West Tennessee. As time rolled on, however, separation became a critical subject, and a certain clique, known to be in opposition to the popular measures of the day, including a Brigadier General, turned from a position in opposition to separation and became the authors of expressions fa