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non-slave-holders. It was not a political line dividing the Whigs from the Democrats, but nevertheless it was a line which all of these helped to make, and it gradually grew into one of social equality, or inequality. The toilers did not often mate with the aristocrats nor intrude upon them socially. Indeed, they occupied for the most part, different sections of the State. the common people settling in the mountain region, while the wealthier class lived in Middle or West Tennessee, where their slaves could grow cotton and tobacco to advantage.
3. These common people had settled down in advance of the schoolmaster and long before railroads were built, so their children grew up without education, and their only chance for learning was a mother's love and solicitude. She would teach them all that she had not forgotten-she always does. The father may be educated but he will not trouble himself to teach his children. He is too busy by day, and too tired at night. Before the war there were in Tennessee at least two generations that had grown up with but a limited education-in fact, with none to speak of, for it was rare to find a man among them who could read or write. It was history repeating itself. Daniel Boone could read, but his children could not. The year before the war the percentage of illiteracy in Tennessee was appalling. The itinerant preacher had been there, but not the school- master. The illiterate and rude people had been taught how to live and how to die. Their morals had been preserved but not their manners.
4. The cotter's Saturday night in old Scotland was not more humbly devotional than the gathering of these rough people at the log church on a Sabbath morning. There were none to molest or make them afraid. They came as best they could-on foot, on horseback, or in the farm-wagon. They came in families, parents and children. They sat upon the puncheon seats and devoutly listened as the preacher stretched forth his arms and said: "Let us worship God." It is a lasting tribute
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to these good people that while their percentage of illiteracy wa distressing, their percentage of crime was meager. In portion- of the North where illiteracy is from four to six per cent., crime seems to have increased in an inverse ratio, for as illiteracy decreases crime increases, unless morality and religion are taught in the schools.
5. And so since the war, when railroads and revenue laws have penetrated the homes of these people, crime has been o !! the increase, and the moonshiner has become an outlaw. There was a time when his father and his grandfather distilled their fruit in a limited and honest way, and worshipped God, and violated no law. There was a time when there was no locks of their doors, and the stranger always found a welcome-a time when there were no hip pockets for deadly weapons, when jail- were empty, and half the week was sufficient to clear the court house docket.
6. There was a time when these men so loved their country that on the first alarm they picked their flints, shouldered their rifles and hurried to General Jackson's call; or, later, to fight the Indians in Florida; or, still later, to old Virginia to defend what they believed to be their rights under the Constitution. What a mistake to say these men were fighting for slavery when not one of them in a hundred ever owned a slave. But they fought. They fought, as their forefathers had done before then, when resisting the imposition of a little tax on tea. though not one in a thousand drank it.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE COMMON PEOPLE AND THE ARISTOCRACY .- CONTINUED.
I. The aristocracy of the South was before the war mainly an aristocracy of wealth, education and dominion. Either of
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these gives power and influence. All of them combined lift a man above the toilers and command their respect as well as their envy. The aristocrats were generally gentlemen of educa- tion, refinement, manners and a sentiment of adjusting personal conflicts by the code of honor. Money helps to establish their title, of course, but it is not absolutely essential. Indeed, it is possible that there are rich common people and poor aristocrats. The results of the war developed many of both classes. Our cities are full of the former, and they are generally the leading men in mercantile business and industrial pursuits. The old time aristocrats esteemed themselves to be gentlemen, and gen- erally they were. They were of good stock and thoroughbred. Whether one was riding or walking you could tell him by his carriage-by the vehicle he rode in or the measured dignity with which he walked about.
2. That vehicle was an unique as a Chinaman's palanquin. It did not rest on elliptical springs, but was swung high be- tween four half circles, and the dickey, or driver's seat, was perched still higher, and the driver's bell-crowned hat was the first thing that came in sight as the equippage rose into view from over a distant hill. There were two folding staircases to this vehicle and nobody but an aristocratic lady could ascend or descend them with aristocratic grace. The gentleman who was born and bred to this luxury was a king in his way-limited it is true, but nevertheless a king. His house was not a palace. but it was large and roomy, having a broad hall and massive chimneys and a verandah ornamented with tall Corinthian columns. This mansion was generally situated in a grove of venerable oaks. It was set back from one hundred to two hundred yards from the big road, and the lane that led to its hospitable gate was enfiladed with cedars or lombardy poplars. Fragments of the cedars are still left, but the poplars died with the old South. They died at the top very like their owners.
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3. Prominent in the rear of this mansion was the old gir house with the spacious circus ground underneath where the horses went round and round under the great cog-wheels, and the little darkies rode on the beams and popped their home made whips. Not far away were the negro cabins and the orchard and the big family garden, and all around were fowl- and pig's and pigeons and honey bees and hound dogs and picka- ninnies to keep things lively. The owner of this plant was a gentleman and was so regarded by the neighbors. He was a nobleman without the title of nobility. He had been through college and to New York and to Saratoga and had come back and married another gentleman's daughter and settled down. The old folks on both sides had given them a start and built the mansion and sent over a share of the family negroes to mul- tiply and replenish.
4. He dressed well and carried a gold-headed cane and a massive watch and chain that were made of pure gold at Geneva. There was a seal attached-a heavy prismatic seal that had his monogram. The manner in which he toyed with this chain and seal was one of the visible signs of a gentleman. It was as significant as the motion of a lady's fan. The old gentleman's "company suit" was a navy blue swallow-tail coat ornamented with plain brass buttons that were kept bright and burnished, a pair of trousers to match and a white Marseilles waistcoat. When these were set off with a beaver hat, a ruffled shirt and a bandana handkerchief, the visible make-up of the gentleman was complete.
5. Most of these old-time gentlemen kept what was called open house, and all who came were welcome. There was no need to send word that you were coming, for food and shelter were always ready. The old gentleman called for Dick or Jack or Cæsar to come and take the horses. put them up and feed them. There was plenty of corn and fodder in the crib. plenty of big fat hams and leaf-lard in the handy smoke-house
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plenty of turkeys and chickens in the back yard, plenty of preserves in the pantry, plenty of trained servants to attend to all the work while the lady of the house entertained her wel- come guests. How proud were those family servants to show off before the visitors and display their accomplishments in the kitchen, the dining-room and the bed-chamber. They shared the family standing in the community and had but little respect for what they called the "poor white trash" of the neighbor- hood.
6. This old-time gentleman had a rich man's way even though he was financially embarrassed. His name was in the grand jury box, never in the petit jury box. That would have been an indignity that would have been resented. There was 110 line of demarkation between the common people and the aristocracy that was more rigidly drawn than the one that separated the grand jury from the petit jury. The aristocrats not only held all the prominent offices, but they were colonels and majors of the militia. Almost all of the professional men came from this aristocratic stock. They were generally Whigs in politics, and were the patrons of high schools and colleges, and stocked the learned professions with an annual crop of graduates who were intensely loyal to Henry Clay, Fillmore, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk. John Bell, and the code of honor. They had wealth, dignity and leisure, and Solomon says that in leisure there is wisdom, and so these men became our law-makers, our jurists, and our statesmen, and they were the shining lights in the councils of the nation. But it was an aristocracy that was exclusive. It had shut out and overshadowed the masses of the common people, just as a broad spreading oak overshadows and withers the undergrowth be- neatlı it.
7. Of course these aristocrats were not all Whigs. There were many distinguished exceptions, such as the Jacksons, the Johnsons and the Grundys, who were Democrats, though ot
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aristocratic birth. General Jackson was an illustrious statesman who come up from among the common people to stay with them and to lead them, as Moses led the children of Israel. His whole political life was a fight against monopolies, and the power and corruption that come from large fortunes and favor- itism.
8. The result of the war was a fearful fall to the aristocracy of Tennessee. They lost many of their noble sons in the army, and their property soon after. The extent of their misfortunes no one will ever know, for "the heart only knoweth its own bitterness." Many of them suffered and were strong, but the majority gave up to despondency and their children were left to scuffle for themselves. The collapse to them was awful. They had not been raised to exercise self-denial or economy, and it was humiliating in the extreme for them to have to descend to the level of the common people. But they did it, and did it heroically. And so in the course of time this line of demarkation between the common people and the old aristocracy began to fade. Finally it passed away. A new and a hardier stock came to the front, that class which before the war was under a cloud. The results of the war made an opening for them and developed their latent energies. With no high degree of culture, they nevertheless proved equal to the struggle up the rough hill of life, and began to build up what the war had pulled down. They began at the bottom, just where the war found them and where it left them. They had been reared to work, and their practical energy was soon followed by thrift and a general recovery of wasted fields and fenceless farms.
9. These men now constitute, in the main, the solid men of the State, and have contributed largely to the building up of schools and churches and factories and railroads. They are the modern self-made Southerners, a class that forms a striking con- trast to the dignity and repose of the old patriarchs whose beau-
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tiful homes adorned the hills and groves of the South before the war. But the children of these old patriarchs had to come down some, and the children of the common people came up some. and they have met upon a common plain, and are now working happily together. both in social and business life. Spirit and blood have united with energy and muscle and it makes a good team-the best all-round team the South has ever had.
Historical Recreations.
1. What is the area of Tennessee? Population ?
2. How many counties in this State? Congressional Districts?
3. Who are your County officers? How elected?
4. Name the functions of our officers.
5. Name and define the departments of our government.
6. How does the County Court and Legislature differ?
7. Name and describe original tribes of Indians.
8. What of their manners and customs?
9. Name the first permanent settlement in the State.
Io. Name twelve prominent pioneers. Twenty Governors.
II. What do you esteem in the aborigines?
12. Mention four cities that have Indian names.
13. What is the significance of "Tennessee?"
14. Give motto and popular names of this State.
15. How were the salaries of the officers of Frauklin paid?
16. Who was the father of East Tennessee? Middle Tennessee?
17. Why does the State have three divisions? 18. Name the successive Capitols of the State.
19. Name ten of the most populous counties. Ten cities.
20. Whom do you regard our most distinguished man? Why?
21. Name our present State officers, Give politics.
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22. Name seven counties from each division of the State.
23. Why was the State unrepresented in Congress from 1863 : 1865?
24. Name three Presidents and three Generals from this State.
25. Name four railroads and six rivers. Locate them.
25. What distinguished General advocated dueling ?
27. What was Governor Harris' reply to the President's requi- tion for troops?
28. What Congressman accidentally but fatally poisoned him- self?
29. How was the Turner-Evans contest for Governor investi- gated ?
30. How did Governor Brownlow repel his opponents in a cam- paign ?
31. What caused the State debt? How settled?
32. Name the politics of our Governors. What is politics ?
33. What is the object of the State Constitution?
34. Why does the Senate confirm appointments?
35. Describe old time camp meetings.
36. Compare Generals Sevier and Tipton.
37. Why did Franklin fail?
38. What did its Constitution prohibit? Why?
39. What made Reconstruction odious?
40. How will Tennessee compare with other States?
41. What was the War of the Roses?
42. Name seven keenly contested battles.
43. What and where is the Hermitage?
44. Locate the tombs of ten Governors.
45. Where are Jackson, Polk and Johnson buried?
16. Name and locate four National cemeteries.
47. Describe the "Battle Above the Clouds."
48. Name a disastrous penitentiary insurrection.
+9. Mention four State institutions. Locate them.
50. The present Legislature has how many members?
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APPENDIX.
The Formation of Counties.
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FROM WHAT FORMED.
Washington.
1777 Wilkes and Burke Cos. N. C
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Jefferson ..
1792 Greene and Hawkins ( os
12 Greene and How kus tos
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Mary Grainger.
Montgomery
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Smith Wilson
19 Sumner 00
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Williamson
Amierson ..
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Josepa Ande
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Dickvan
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Rutherford
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Thomas Dedfor.
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NAME -.
Creation Date of
FROM WHAT FORMED.
FOR WHOM NAMED.
Monroe
1-12 & herokee Land-
James Monroe
lowcherokee Lands
Gov. Jos. McMinn.
Perry
1-19 Hickman ('0
Com. Oliver H. Perry. Isaac Shelby
Hanmiton
Hetiry
trol of Stewart (0).
Patrick Henry.
Carroll ...
121 West. Pist. under comtrol of stewart do ..
Gov. W'm. Carroll.
Henderson .::
1:21
West. Dist. under control of Stewart (0) Hardinto
fol. T. J. Hardeman.
Hay wood.
Judyo JJno. Haywood. 12: West. Dist. under control of Stewart to ... col. Henry Diver.
Gibson ...
ist. une rcontrol of stewart Co ... Col. Thomas Gibson. 12 West. Dist. under control of stewart to ...
Fentress
Cocerton and Morsi: Los
From Obion River. Jacob Tipton. Judge John McNairy.
Mevairy LE West. Dist. Under control of Stewart ('0. Fayette 1:24 Hardeman and aneiby cos
Lauderdale
In Humphreys and Henry com
Johnson
Meigs
Cannon
Marsind
IN White, Warren, Cannon. Wilson, Jack'n Baron DeKalb.
Polk
130 Bradley and M. Minn l'in
James K. Polk.
Van Garer
140 Whir, Warren an : Bledsoe cos.
Martin Van Buren.
Macon
12 smith and commerces
143 Maury. Lawrence. Warne and Hickman Meriwether Lewis.
ifrundy
1-44 Franklin, Coffee and Warren Co-
Felix Grundy. John Hancock. Com. Stephen Decatur
Scott
110 Anderson, Campbell, Fentress, Morgan. tien. Winfield Scott.
Union no Grainger. liborne. Campbell. Anderson
Cumberland . 155 White Van Buren. Bledsoe, Rhea. Mor gan. Raut and Putnam l'os
Cheathalt IST Davidson. Robertson and Montgomery ..
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In Gibson. Haywand, byer and Madison ...
Hausblon. ¡Te Girainger. Jefferson and Hawkins Cos Brunner. Nakon. smith and Williamson day. Wm. Trousdale. Tree-1de
Henry clar. Foration Lake.
Viay Lake London Il Koune. Menror and Blount Cos
Holston MI Dickson. Humphreys. Montgomery au
11 Hamilton ani Bradley con
Jesse J. James.
Moore
l'nicoi. 15 Washington and ' ardi
Pickett.
i lester IN Madison, Henderson, MeNairy and Har-
Col. Jas Lauderdale. Thomas H. Benton.
the arter ( 0)
Return J. Meigs, fins. Newton & aunon
Bedford, Maury, Lincoln and Giles Cos
if2 Winte. Overta. Jack 'n. Smith, Dekalb frael Putnam.
Louis
Hancock
Claiborne and Hawkins Cos 1:45 Perry to
Decatur
West. Dist. under control of Stewart ('o.
Tipion 12 West. Dist. under control of Stewart (9.
Alexander Hamilton ..
Shelby
1-ty Hardin Co
Dist. mder control of stewart : o .. James Madison.
Hardeinan .
Dyer ...
Weakle!
15 Warren. Frankiin and Bedford Cos
4
David Crockett. Hezekiah Hamblen.
Fort London. Gen. Sam. Houston.
This, as well as several other conuties, was not organized for a few years after the passage of the act creating it.
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COUNTY SEATS.
County Seats.
Anderson, Clinton: Bedford, Shelbyville: Benton, Camden: Bledsoe, Pikeville: Blount, Maryville; Bradley, Cleveland; Camp- bell. Jacksboro; Cannon, Woodbury: Carroll, Huntingdon: Car- ter, Elizabethton: Cheatham, Ashland City: Chester, Henderson: Claiborne, Tazewell: Clay, Celina: Cocke, Newport; Coffee, Manchester; Crockett, Alamo: Cumberland, Crossville; David- son, Nashville: Decatur, Decaturville; DeKalb, Smithville: Dickson. Charlotte: Dver, Dyersburg; Fayette, Somerville; Fent- ress, Jamestown; Franklin, Winchester: Gibson. Trenton; Giles, Pulaski: Grainger, Rutledge; Greene, Greenville; Grundy, Alta- mont: Hamblen, Morristown: Hamilton, Chattanooga; Hancock. Sneedville: Hardeman, Bolivar: Hardin, Savannah; Hawkins, Rogersville: Haywood, Brownsville; Henderson, Lexington: Henry, Paris: Hickman, Centreville; Houston, Erin; Humph- reys. Waverly: Jackson, Gainsboro: James, Ooltewah: Jefferson. Dandridge: Johnson, Mountain City; Knox, Knoxville; Lake. Tiptonville: Lauderdale, Ripley; Lawrence, Lawrenceburg: Lewis, Newburg: Lincoln, Fayetteville; Loudon, Loudon: Mc- Minn, Athens: McNairy, Purdy: Macon, Lafayette: Madison, Jackson: Marion, Jasper: Marshall, Lewisburg; Maury, Colum- bia: Meigs, Decatur: Monroe, Madisonville: Montgomery. Clarksville: Moore, Lynchburg: Morgan, Wartburg: Obion. Union City; Overton, Livingston; Perry, Linden; Pickett, Byrdstown: Polk, Benton: Putnam, Cookeville: Rhea, Dayton: Roane, Kingston: Robertson, Springfield; Rutherford, Murfrees- boro: Scott, Huntsville: Sequatchie, Dunlap; Sevier, Sevierville: Shelby, Memphis; Smith, Carthage: Stewart, Dover; Sullivan, Blountville: Sumner. Gallatin: Tipton, Covington: Trousdale, Hartsville: Unicoi, Erwin; Union, Maynardville; Van Buren. Spencer: Warren, Mc Minnville: Washington, Jonesboro: Wayne. Waynesboro: Weakley, Dresden: White, Sparta: Williamson. Franklin: Wilson, Lebanon.
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Governors of Tennessee from 1790.
I. William Blount, Territorial Governor. 1790-1796. Com missioned August 7, 1790.
2. John Sevier, 1796-1801. Inaugurated March 30, 1796.
3. Archibald Roane. 1801-1803. Inaugurated September 2: ISOI.
4. John Sevier. 1803-1809. Inaugurated September 23, 1803.
5. William Blount, 1809-1816. Inaugurated September 23 I SO9.
6. Joseph McMinn, 1815-1821. Inaugurated September 1815.
7. William Carroll, 1821-1827. Inaugurated October 1. ISEL.
8. Samuel Houston, 1827. Inaugurated October 1. 1827. Served to April 16, 1829, when he resigned, and William Hall. Speaker of the Senate, became Governor, serving to October 1. IS29.
9. William Carroll, 1829-1835. Inaugurated October 1, 1829.
ro. Newton Cannon, 1835-1839. Inaugurated October 12 1835.
II. James K. Polk, 1839-1841. Inaugurated October 14. 1839
12. James C. Jones, 1841-1845. Inaugurated October !4. 1841.
13. Aaron V. Brown, 1845-1847. Inaugurated October 15 I845.
14. Neil S. Brown, 1847-1849. Inaugurated October 18, 1847.
15. William Trousdale. 1849-1851. Inaugurated October 15 1849.
16. William B. Campbell, 1851-1853. Inaugurated October 16, 1851.
17. Andrew Johnson, 1853-1857.
Inaugurated October !; 1853.
18. Isham G. Harris, 1857-1865. Inaugurated November 3. 1857. Robert I. Caruthers was elected Governor in 1863. but on account of Tennessee being in possession of Federal troops.
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was unable to qualify. President Lincoln appointed Andrew Johnson Military- Governor of Tennessee, who served from 1862 to 1865.
19. William G. Brownlow, 1865-1867. Inaugurated April 5. 1865.
20. D. W. C. Senter. 1867-IS;1. Inaugurated October 10. 1867. As Speaker of the Senate succeeded Governor Brownlow. who had resigned to take a seat in the United States Senate.
: 21. John C. Brown, 1871-1875. Inaugurated October 10, 1871.
22. James D. Porter, 1875-1879. Inaugurated January IS, 1875-
23. Albert S. Marks. 1879-1881. Inaugurated January 16, 1879.
24. Alvin G. Hawkins, 1881-1883. Inaugurated January 17. ISSI.
25. William B. Bate, 1883-1887. Inaugurated January 15. 1883. 26. Robert L. Taylor, 1887-1891. Inaugurated January 17.
1887.
27. John P. Buchanan, 1891-1893. Inaugurated January 19, 1891. 28. Peter Turney, 1893-189 -. Inaugurated January 16, 1893.
Secretaries of State from 1792.
Daniel Smith. Territorial Secretary, 1792-96.
William Maclin, April 9. 1796-1807.
Robert Houston, March 31. 1507-1L.
W. G. Blount, March 31. 1811-15.
William Alexander, March 30. 1815-18. Died.
Daniel Graham, appointed August 26, 1818-30. T. H. Fletcher, appointed September, 1830-32. Samuel G. Smith, March 1. 1832-35-
Resigned.
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Luke Lea, December 4, 1835-39.
John S. Young, December 4, 1839-47.
W. B. A. Ramsey, December 3, 1847-55.
F. N. W. Burton, December 4, 1855-59. J. E. R. Ray, December 5, 1859-65.
E. H. East, appointed in 1862 by Andrew Johnson. Military Governor, served to April, 1865.
A. J. Fletcher, 1865-70.
T. H. Butler, May 23, 1870-73. Charles N. Gibbs, February 1, 1873-81. David A. Nunn, February 12, 1881-85: John Allison, Jr., February 12, 1885-89. Charles A. Miller, February 12, 1889-93. W. S. Morgan; February 13, 1893.
Comptrollers-Office Created in 1835.
Daniel Graham, January 23, 1936-43. Felix K. Zollicoffer, October 1. 1843-49. B. N. Sheppard, October 15, 1849-51. Arthur R. Crozier, October 15, 1851-55. James C. Luttrell, October 16, 1855-57.
James T. Dunlap, October 15. 1857, to April, 1862.
Joseph S. Foster, appointed by Andrew Johnson, Military Governor, 1862-65.
J. R. Dillin, elected April 25, 1865, failed to qualify. being a member of the Legislature that elected him, and ineligible.
S. W. Natchett, May, 1865, to October, 1866.
G. W. Blackburn, October. 1866-70.
E. R. Pennebaker, June, 1870-73.
W. W. Hobb, January 15, 1873, to May, 1873. John C. Burch, May, 1873-75. James L. Gaines, January 15, 1875-SI.
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STATE OFFICERS.
James N. Nolen, January 15, 1881-83. P. P. Pickard. January 15, 1883, to February 28, 1889. J. W. Allen, February 28, 1889, February 1, 1893. James A. Harris, February 1, 1893.
Treasurers from 1796.
The act of April 13, 1796, and Territorial act of September, 1794. Chapter 9, provided for two District Treasurers, viz .: Dis- tricts of Mero and Washington and Hamilton. Act of October 25. 1813. changed the name of Treasurer of Washington and Hamilton to Treasurer of East Tennessee, and Treasurer of Mero to Treasurer of West Tennessee. The District of Mero was also known as the District of Mero, Robertson and Win- chester. Act of November 1, 1827, created the offices of Treas- urer of Western District, at Jackson, Tennessee; Treasurer of Washington and Hamilton and East Tennessee, at Knoxville; and Treasurer of Mero, at Nashville. The Constitution of 1834 provided for one Treasurer for the "ate, to be elected by the Legislature for two years.
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