Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-05-05
Putnam, County.

At a public meeting of the citizens of Putnam
county, held at the courthouse in the town of Cook
vile, on the 22d day of April, 1861. On motion
Hon. E. L. GARDENHIRE was unanimously choser
Chairman, and WM. J. REAGEN and B. B. WASH
BURN Secretaries of the meeting.
After warm and enthusiastic addresses by Hon
J. 81. SAVAGE, Hon. S. S. STANTON, Hon. E, S. GAR
DENHRE, Col S. H. COINS, W. 81. BATS, Col 7. b
audience on the present crisis in our government
and the position to be assumed by the slave States
On motion of Col. ]. W. MoHENRY, seconded and
unanimously adopted, the Chairman appointed 81.
II. BILLIARD, JOHN P. MURRAY, BENTON MARCHBANKs,
W. Q. HUGHES, 81. DENTON, TIN. II. WILLIAMS, J. G.
APPLE, committee on resolutions who reported
the following preamble and resolutions which were
offered, seconded and adopted by the meeting, the
largest perhaps ever held in Putnam county, with
great enthusiasm, only three persons in the assem-
biage voting against them.
WHEREAS, The anti-sIavery party is the enemy of
the Constitution and the Union, advocating the
equality of the negro and white races and there
fore that slavery should be abolished. To accom-
plish this the anti slavery party has been organized
and now constitutes the dominant party in all the
free States, and now having the possession of the
Federal Government in all its departments, it is at
tempting to carry out its damnable hereses enter
tanned for many years towards the South and ita
institutions, IN conquest and coercion.
The North has turned hstless ear to all suppl
cation of the South in behalf of their cherished
constitutional rights, and treated with contempt
every proposition for the honorable pacifcaton of
our difficulties. A civil with its untold honOrs
and consequences is now commenced, by the send
ing of an armed feet Dy the Federal Government to
enforce its laws upon the Southern COnfeGeracy.
in an honorable effort, to secure our rights under
the Constitution. We now driven to the deplor-
able necessity of appealing, for the defence of our
homes, and our institutions, to the stern arbitra-
ment of the sword, and that God who rules the
battle. Therefore,
RESOLVED, That we endorse every effort, that has
been made by convention, and otherwise to bring
about peaceable settlement of our existing diff
culties, and thereby TO preserve the Union intact;
but having failed, and all reasonable hopes of pac-
fcaon being extinct, we do now deem il the wisest
policy in Tennessee to unite her future destiny with
the Southern Confederacy without further hes1ta-
ton or delay.
ResOIred, That we regard the war now waged
upon the Southern Confederacy, by the admnistra-
ton, as unwise, unnatural, and unholy; without
authority under the Constitution; and that we look
upon this act of the President of the United States
IN calling out troops, ard making war without the
sanction of Congress as a dangerous usurpation of
power.
IteSOtCeu, 1udL Ile pOSitlOn Dy repre-
sentatives in the State Legislature to-day, in dis
closing that they will all means to speedily get
Tennessee from under the tyrannical rule of Abrs-
ham Lincoln, meets or unqualified appreciation, and
they are hereby directed TO use all means in their
power dissolve the connection of this State with
the General Government and unite her fortunes
with the Confederate States; and that we will rati
fly their action when submitted to US for approval.
RESOLVED, That the duplicity of Lincoln meets our
contempt; we detest his tyranny, and defy his
power. ...
ReSolUed, That we will resist his usurpations IN
to death; that we have no compromise with tyran-
ny, no terms with the tyrant who has trampled on
our Constitution, and now seeks to enslaVe US; we
send greeting to him the words of stern and unyied
ing defiance; ask not twenty days; our minds are
made up.
ReS0lUed, That we opposed to Andrew johnson
for any place position, and think him unworthy
of the position he occupies, and we hereby
request our Senators in Congress to no longer at
tempt to represent us in the Lincoln Congress.
Col. S. H. Coins offered the following resolu-
tions, which were seconded and enthusiastically
adopted:
Isham G. Harris of the State of Tennessee to the
call Tennessee for troops to subjugate our sister
States of the South, as the response of patriot
andthat for his devotion to the South he is entitled
to our confidence and support, and we hereby re-
nominate him for Governor of Tennessee.
ReSciced, That the Cookville Times, the UNION AND
AMERICAN, and all the papers at Nashville be re-
quested to publish the proceedings of this meeting
with the above resolutions.
E. L. GARDENHIRE, President.
Pc W. ]. REAGAN, B. B. WASHBURN, Secretaries