Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-06-28

counties shall Be represented as follows.:-
Tbs county of Knox shall elect three Dele
gstes, the counties of Washington, Green
and Jefferson, two Delegates each, and tn
remaining counties shall each elect one Del
egate.
The Committee appointed by the foregoing
resolutions. performed their duty by submit
hitting to the Legislature. on Wednesda.
evening. the following
MEMORIAL
To the General Assembly of the State o
Tennessee: The undersigned, uemoriaiists
on behalf of the people of East Tennessee,
beg leave respectfully to show, that at a con
vention of delegates, holden at GreeueviIle
on the 18th, 18th, 18th and 10th days of June
instant. in which was represented every coun
ty of East Tennessee, except the county o
Rhea. it was resolved:
lst. sThat we do earnestly desire the res
toration of peace to our whole country, an6
most especially that our own section of I'd,
State of Tennessee shall not be involved ii
civil war; s
I'd. -That the action of the State Legisia
ture in passing the so-called Declaration o
Independence and in forming the military
League with the Confederate States. and il
adopting other acts looking to q separation
of Tennessee from the Government of tbs
United States, is unconstitutional and lille
gal, and therefore not binding upon us az
loyal citiZens.o
8. "And it was further resolved, That In
order to avert conflict with our brethren il
other parts of the State, and desiring thai
every constitutional means shall be resorted
to, for the preservation of peace. we do
therefore, constitute and appoint o. p. Tenn.
Of ~ - e II
and James p. Mcdowell, of Greene. commits
sioners. whose duty il shall be to prepare q
memorial and cause the same to be presented
to the General Assembly of Tennessee, now
In session, asking its consent that the coun-
ties composing East Tennessee, and such 9TH
er counties in Middle Tennessee as desire to
co operate with them, may form and erect a
separate State.
The idea of separate political existence
is not recent one, but it is not necessary
here to restate the geographical, social, eco
nomical and industrial reasons which have
often been urged in support of it. The rea-
son which operated upon the convention and
seemed to them conclusive, was the action of
the two sections. respectively, at the election
held on the 8h inst, to determine the future
national relations of the State. In that cleo
ton, the people of E=st Tennessee, by ma
jority of nearly twenty thousand votes, de-
cided to adhere to the Federal Union, estab
lished prior to the American Revolution, and
to which Tennessee was admitted in the year
1895; while the rest of the State is repor ted
to have decided by q majority approaching
even more nearly to unanimity, to leave the
Federal Union and to join the body polite
recently formed under the name of the Con-
federated States of America. The same d.
versity of sentiment was exhibited but less
distinctly, at the election on the 9th of Feb
ruary last, when the people OF East Tennes-
see decided by heavy majority against hol-
ding convention to discuss and determine
our federal relations, overcoming by nearly
fourteen thousand the majority in the rest of
the State in favor of such convention.
This hopeless and irrecencilabie difference
of opinion and purpose, leaves no alterna-
tive but a separation of the two sections of
the State; for it is not to be presumed that
either would for moment, think of subiu.
eating the other, or of coercing it into a 70
iitical condition repugnant alike to its inter-
est and to its honor. Certainly the people of
East Tennessee entertain no such purpose to-
wards the rest of the State. And the avow-
ais of their Western brethren, tn connection
with their recent political action, have been
too numerous and explicit to leave us in any
doubt as to their views.
1t remains, therefore, that measures be
adopted to effect separation, amicably, hon.
Orably, and magnanimonsly, by q settlement
of boundaries, SO as to divide East Tennessee,
and any contiguous COUNTIES or districts
which may desire to adhere to her, from the
rest of the State, and by fair, just and equi-
table division OF the public property and
the common liabilities 1t has occurred to
the undersigned as the best method of ac-
comprising this most desirable end, that
your body should take immediate action in
the premises, by giving formal assent to the
proposed separation, pursuant to the provi-
sions of section 3, article 4, of the Constitu-
ton of the United States; and by conyoking
a convention representing the sovereign pow
er of the people of the respective divisions
of Tennessee, with plenary authority to amend
the Constitution OF the State as to carry into
effect the change contemplated.
With view TO such action, or to action
leading to the same result, the undersigned
ask permission to confer with your body,
either in general session or through q COM
mittee appointed for this purpose, SO as to
consider and determine the details more sat-
than could otherwise be done.
/ Awaiting response to this memorial, the
Undersigned beg 70 add assurances of every
e4deavOr on their part not only to preserve
the peaceful relations heretofore subsisting
between the people in the two portions of the
State, but to remove, as far as possible, all
causes of disturbance in the future, so that
zach may be left free to follow its chosen
path of prosperity. and honor, unembarrassed
BY any collision with the other.
o. p. TEMPLE,
JOHN NETHERLAND,
JAS. P. Mcdowell.
On the reception Of the Memorial, a joint
elect committee was appointed by the two
branches of the General Assembly, to consid
II of the same. The committee consists of
he following gentlemen: On the part Of the
enate, Messrs Stokes, PETERs, MCCLELLAN,
'oYD and MINIS, and on the part of the
House, of Messrs. CAN'T, DUDLEY, MARTIN,
nus stands the matter at present