Deborah Moorefield
Secession of Franklin Cty,TN
Wed May 2 11:01:47 2001


Resolutions For The Secession Of Franklin County

1. Resolved, That the action of the State of
Tennessee, on the 9th inst., is to us a source of
unfeigned mortification, and regret, as we hoped that
her course would have been so different, as to have,
by the 4th day of March next, divorced Tennessee
forever from her present bonds of political union, and
have united her fate-for weal or woe, with her seven
proud and gallant sisters of the South, which have so
divorced themselves.

2. Resolved, That while against our wills and earnest
desire, we as Tennesseans are forced to remain
citizens of the Federal Union, our hearts, sympathies
and feelings are with the Confederate States of
America, and we still hope that the day will review
and reverse her action, and give birth to another
State upon the National Flag of the Southern Republic.

3. Resolved, That we hope that the Northern fanatics
have read the speeches of the Presidents- DAVIS and
LINCOLN, (Made enroute for their respective seats of
government) and see the difference, and from it
learned a lesson of common sense, which will cause
them to hush their insane croaking about the ignorance
of the Southern people, since, they must see that
while the Confederate States have for their
representative a gentleman, a scholar and a statesman,
the Federal Union has a wag, a mental dwarf.

4. Resolved, That the speeches of President LINCOLN,
intimating coercion, deserve, and will receive, the
supreme contempt of every true Southern heart; and
when the Federal government, under the administration
of Mr. LINCOLN, shall call for troops to invade or
coerce the seceding States, Old Franklin will respond
as becomes freemen who know their rights, and dare
maintain them-not to aid the Federal Government, but
to resist, even unto death, the Federal policy. If war
must come, our fate is, and shall be, with our sisters
of the South; their cause shall be our cause- with
them we will stand, or with them fall.

5. Resolved, That we earnestly petition the
Legislatures of Alabama and Tennessee through them,
and by ourselves, and all other authorities that can
give us any aid in the matter, to change the line
between the States, so as to transfer the county of
Franklin to the State of Alabama, unless, before this
can be done, Tennessee secede from the Union, thereby
giving to us a government having our consent. And that
copies of this and the next resolution be sent to the
governors of Alabama and Tennessee as early as can be.

6. Resolved, That upon the conditions of the 5th
resolution, we declare ourselves out of the Union,
subject to be ratified by the States of Alabama and
Tennessee, as provided in said resolution, which we
again earnestly request may be early attended to.

Then I.T. CARR, Esq., being called on, after making a
few appropriate remarks, submitted the following
resolutions which were unanimously adopted:

1. Resolved, That we have ever stood by the
Constitution, its impacts and compromises, but they
have been ruthlessly set aside by the republican party
and the Chicago platform adopted instead thereof, and
we are now duty bound to the framers of the
Constitution, the Revolutionary sires, our ancestors,
to posterity, our homes, and our sacred honor, to
adhere to it now as reaffirmed by the Confederate
States of America.

2. Resolved, That in as much as the movements now made
in Congress of the United States of North America, and
the incoming administration thereof, threaten to
blockade our ports, force revenues, suspend postal
arrangements, destroy commerce, ruin trade, depreciate
currency, invade sovereign States, burn cities,
butcher armies, gibbet patriots, hang veterans,
oppress freemen, blot our liberty, beggar homes, widow
mothers, orphan children, and desolate the peace and
happiness of the nation with fire and sword,-theseCh'n, J.F. SYLER, N. FRIZZELL Secretaries, Winchester,
Tennessee, 25 Feb. 1861.