Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-02-21
The Attitude Of the State.

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Tennessee on Saturday las. indicate
beyond all reasonable room for doub.
that large majority Of the votes
we're Cast against the Convention,
and for the so-called Union candi.
dates. This result might well have
been expected. inasmucb as it is now
an asceftained fact that certain mem
bers of the Tennessee Legislature,
acting under the ADVICE of veneer.
able party leader 10 Nashville. agreed
upon the plan cooperation some days
before the adjournment ofthat body.
and inasmuch as this same distin.
Iguished leader declared in public
speech in front Of bis own door, on
the night preceding the election,
that the Convention proposition
ought TO be defeated. This desire
of the great oracle had doubtless
been teiegraphed to the faithful
throughout the State, and had its
designed effect upon the honest mas
ses. Besides this, it is an uudenia-
Bile fact that in futberancs of this
most discrediiable project, tickets
in Vulnerable we're printed and seut
into every nook and corner Of the
State, with No Convention" in bold
letters at their head. Here bits Of
of paper Of themselves supplied al.
monltios of what vas expected on
the part of certain pa-tv leaders, at
the hands OF ,lose opposed to all
decisive a.,d manly action. The
dreadttsai verdict is upon Us: The
people Of Tennessee have refused
even to hold a Convention, through
the instrumentaliiy (Which We might
have conferred with our sister States
Of the South. aud thus contributed.
our aid either 10 preserving the Tn.
ion or in securing the South agai1s,
dangers now mauiIestly threast ned
Tennessee is doomed to inglolious
Inactivity, for some mouths to come
in not for longer peyloG. Mean
while We learn that the Virginia uld-
naatum, which is substantially that oil
our own State, has been offered in
the Washington Peace Conference,
and treated with the most profound
contempt. In view of this fact,
what reasonable nan can for mo.
ment suppose that this conference
Can adopt even any basis of settle.
ment satisfactory tothe Border States!
Virginia will bold her convention to-
day. -aId it is perfectly safe to pre-.
dict that fonr-filihs and mora Of the
patriotic statesmen elected to that
body will place her ut once outside o,
the present Union, End unite the des-
tiny of The Old Dominion with the
States now constituting the Southern
Confederaey. Mary land, Kentucky,
North Carolina, Missouri, D laware
aud Arkansas, will follow in rapid
succession. Neither Of these States
has set voted down the proposition
to hold Convention, ana never
will. What then is TO be the posi-
ton of the gallant State of Tonnes
see? A month or two since tho
people, through public meetings in
all parts Of the State, demanded OF
Gov Harris that he should convene
the Legislature in special session, in
order TO provide Tor the holding of a
Convention. He yielded to The de-
mand. called the Legislature togetb-
er, and recommended he holding OF Il
State Convention. The Legislature,
10 conformity with his raeommenda-
ton. proposed tothe people the hold
ing Of a Convection, and the people,
misIed by adroit and unscrupulous
leaders, and blinded BY snowy party
clap-irap, have voted down he prop.
osition. And over this result the
Black Republicans throughout the
North are now wildly rejoicing!
1t is bardlT probable, we imagine.
that Gov. Harris could be induced TO
make another effort 10 have Con-
vention held, unless he should re-
ceive the most unmistakeable evi.
dence of that being the deliberate
wish OF majority of his fellow-cil-
liens. Therefore, how inglorious
and wretched is the attitude of Ten
nessee. Separated from her sister
States of the South, those with
whom she bias hitherto been most in
timately allied in business interests
in times of peace, aud with whose
citizens she has been most immedi
ately connected in confronting the
hazards Of the field in times of war,
and tackled on as the tail end of an
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