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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 28 (search)
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28.-East-Tennessee Union Convention.
The Convention assembled at Greenville, Tennessee.
It was presided over by the Hon. T. A. R. Nelson, and was addressed with great effect by Senator Johnson.
The resolutions adopted, which were preceded by an admirably-written preamble, are as follows:
1. That the evils which now afflict our beloved country, in our opinion, are the legitimate offspring of the ruinous and heretical doctrine of secession; that the people of East Tennessee have ever been and we believe still are opposed to it by a very large majority.
2. That while the country is now upon the very threshold of a most ruinous and desolating civil war, it may with truth be said, and we protest before God, that the people (so far as we can see) have done nothing to produce it.
3. That the people of Tennessee, when the question was submitted to them in February last, decided, by an overwhelming majority, that the relations of the State toward the Federal Governmen