. East Tennessee and the civil war . rt of the county, not far from the lines of Knoxand Blount, between twenty and twenty-five miles fromFair Garden. The crowd there was scarcely less than theone of the day before. It was a raw, chilly day in Febru-ary. The large academy building would not hold a thirdof the persons present, so the speaking again had to bedone out-doors. Notwithstanding the chilly weather, thepeople stood listening for two hours in breathless atten-tion. This crowd was apparently as unanimous in its loy-alty as the one of the day before; but there were severalconsiderable sla
. East Tennessee and the civil war . rt of the county, not far from the lines of Knoxand Blount, between twenty and twenty-five miles fromFair Garden. The crowd there was scarcely less than theone of the day before. It was a raw, chilly day in Febru-ary. The large academy building would not hold a thirdof the persons present, so the speaking again had to bedone out-doors. Notwithstanding the chilly weather, thepeople stood listening for two hours in breathless atten-tion. This crowd was apparently as unanimous in its loy-alty as the one of the day before; but there were severalconsiderable slaveholders present, who stood off on theoutskirts of the crowd. I had my apprehensions arousedas to them. However, they all either voted the Unionticket three days afterwards, or they abstained from voting,for no secession votes were cast in that region. A numberof these slaveholders, however, later on, deserted the Unioncause. From Sevier county, I at once returned home, and filledin the time till election day in Knox county. In the. JOHN sevip:k. Culoinl at Kilty.•< Mountain aiid First (iuvcritur nf Tcnntssec. Campaign of February^ 1861. 175 meantime, Baxter and Trigg were speaking at their re-spective appointments in Knox and Roane. It would befeeble praise to say that they did splendid work. Theywere both able, fearless, and intensely in earnest, and theyconvinced and aroused wherever they spoke. In all theUnion speeches made in this canvass there was an utterabsence of all timidity, ambiguity, or apologizing for theadvocacy of the National Government, at least this was soas far as I heard them. They were aggressive in the ex-treme against secession. The declarations of the speakerswere accompanied with no conditions. There was a broad,universal, unqualified loyalty in every sentence. Thespeakers were sustained and encouraged by a patrioticpublic sentiment that was almost unanimous. They feltstrong in this powerful support. The memory and thewords of Jackson and Clay we
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