Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-06-23
Communication i
JAMESTOWN, Fentress County, I
June 18th. 1861

JAMESTOWN, Fentress County,
June 18th. 1861
A County Meeting for the purpose of ap-
pointing delegates 70 The second session OF
The Blue-Iight Hartford. alias Knoxville Con-
ventiou. met here on yesterday. The meet
ing was in obedience to the call of one J. D.
Hale, late of the State of New Hampshire,
but who has for the last few months been
acting as agent aud spy for Lincoln in this
and adj lining counties, and encouraging a set
of desp rate and lawless men to resist by
force the execution of the laws of their State,
and who is believed by many to be little
too thick with the darker part of our popu-
lation.
They met in the deserted garrett or lumber
room Of an old store-house, far removed from
the sight Of honest mem but from what We
could see Of the delegates as they passed up
and down, we were satisfied that they were
fit associates for the man that called them to-
getheT.
Perhaps a small sketch of the past history
of few of them will explain to the honest
citizens of other parts of the State how such
a thing was gotten up in our county. On ac-
count of the feelings of the relations of few
of the men connected, We will not now give
their names il connection with their history.
But the guilty ones will know well to whom
the facts apply. The man who We are in
foreigner by birth, who, a few years ago,
By taking the necessary steps, became citi-
zen of this county, but since that time has
been heard to say, if he had his five dollars
back which it cost him, he would rather have
il than to be a citizen and be allowed to vote
in such country az this. The gentleman
who, We are informed, made the first speech,
was formerly from Sewer county. East Ten
nessee, and left that county a few years ago
m nj nj he
him hug q tree when be did not want to, and
who seems to be greatly interested in the
female portion of the community. He mar
rted an old lady some years ago, who had a
daughter and step-daughter. He lived
with them all three alike until the rather
mysterious death of the old lady, when he
married one of the girls, and has fourteen or
fifteen children by the three. Another men,
Der of the meeting was a brave volunteer
from OVeTtOn county in the Mexican war;
but just before the company started the
citizens gave them barbecue, and Of course
they fired of few big guns upon the ocea-
sion- Our would-be hero, not liking the
noise. made il convenient to eat little too
much beef, took sick, went home and stayed
there Another one of the gentlemen is sup
posed to know more about what become of
the big white SOW whose ears were found near
his house last fall than he does about the
u
ing single hog last fall, and last spring he
sold two thousand pounds of bacon or more;
and he did not buy it either. Another one OF
the delegation has been sentenced TO the pen
iientiary; another tried for murder; another,
while acting as Justice of the Peace, tried to
have his own mother made county charge
In fact there is pretty much such a history at
tached to the names of nearly all engaged in
it.
As their doors were locked and the pass
word demanded as each one entered, it was
impossible to know exactly what they done;
but we suppose they passed some such resO-
buttons as the following:
lst Resolved, That we will resist the execu-
ton OF the laws of the State of Tennessee.
which, if carried into effect, would send a
majority of our number to the penitentiary.
End RESOLVED, That taking the advantage of
our insOlvent condition We are unwilling to
pay our taxes; and there is no power on earth
can COMPEL US to, unless they can find some
thing TO levy upon.
We suppose that the above, in substance.
were the resolutions passed, as they refused
to tell any one what they had done. We
link il would be better to look after these
men, as we understand they are secretly
making up companies they call home
guards; but it is generally believed that they
intend looking more after other peoples pro-
perty and homes than their own.
1t is, however, due to a majority of our
citizens to say that they condemn the whole
proceeding as calculated to bring about
civil war in our midst. Although they voted
against separation in the late election, yet
theS love Tennessee more than any other
country on earth, and believe that the voice
OF majority of her citizens should be the
voice OF Tennessee. FESTREss.