Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTABLE MEN OF TENNESSEE FROM 1833 TO 1875 THEIR TIMES AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES Three Remarkable Facts--November, 1860, to February Election, 1861-- South Carolina Secedes, December 26, 18G0--Grave Questions in Border States--Bewildering Uncertainty as to Interest and Duty--Ambitious Leaders in Cotton States -- Vague Fear of the Abolitionists -- Wide- spread Secession Movement--Attitude Toward Slavery--First Union Speech--Knoxville Streets Full of Secessionists--November 26, Public Meetings Adjourned Without Decisive Vote--December 8, Secession Resolutions Defeated, Victory for Union Overwhelming--Meetings in Other Counties--Author Reluctantly Assumed Leadership--Brownlow's Paper Plays an Important Part--Johnson's Part--Local Leaders-- Third Crisis--Emancipation--Brownlow's Quarrel with Johnson-- Alexander Stephens at Mllledgeville -- Firing on Sumter -- Lincoin's Inaugural. Theee remarkable facts mark the history and give interest to the people of East Tennessee. The first was the formation by them of the "Watauga Association" in 1774, composed of the infant settlements of the Watauga, the Holston, the Noliehucky, and the one in Carter's Valley. The articles of "association" united these settlements and the people thereof into a government, with a written constitution, republican in form and spirit, under which they lived and governed themselves for years. This was the first written constitution adopted west of the Alleghanies, as well as the first free and independent government established by men of American birth on the continent.* Remote from the older settlements of North Carolina, neglected and apparently forgotten, without the protection of laws or courts, these brave and intelligent men, guided by the instinct of...
