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 REPORT 
 
 EAST TENNESSEE UELIEF ASSOCIATION 
 
 AT KNOXTILLE; 
 
 TABULAR STATEMENTS FROM THE GENERAL AGENT, ETC. 
 
 BY 
 
 THOMAS W. HUMES, 
 
 CHAIRMAN OK THE COMMITTEE. 
 
 TO WHICH ARE APPENDED 
 
 THE PROCEEDINGS COMMEMORATIVE OF THE DEATH 
 
 EDWARD EYEUETT. 
 
 K N X Y I L L E : 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE ASSOCIATION. 
 
 1865. 
 

 
 Collins, Pr,, 70.5 Jayae St., Philad'a. 
 
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 v^^ E E P R T . 
 
 Nearly twelve months have elapsed since the organization of 
 this Society for the relief of the people of East Tennessee, who 
 have been reduced to destitution of the means of sustaining life 
 by the ravages of war. According to custom, it would be ex- 
 pected that, at the end of that period, reports should be made by 
 those who are intrusted witTi the direction and control of the 
 affairs of the Association, concerning the manner in which their 
 work has been performed, the present condition of the Society's 
 funds and operations, and the prospect of its future usefulness. 
 It is considered advisable, as the beginning of a new civil year 
 has arrived, that these reports shall now be made, and anticipate 
 by more than a month the first anniversary of the Society's 
 formation. 
 
 There is scarcely any portion of our country that in former 
 times has been more abundant in all that is necessary to the sus- 
 tenance of life, and in much that contributes to its comfort, than 
 East Tennessee. But in the autumn of 1863, a number of causes, 
 springing out of the present war, united to produce within it an 
 unusual dearth. Hon. N. G. Taylor, moved by the spectacle of 
 the want and distress among its people, and foreseeing that they 
 would soon be greatly increased, voluntarily entered upon a mis- 
 sion to Northern and Eastern States, with the view of obtaining 
 relief for the sufferers. His appeals were not unsuccessful. And 
 as the prospect of further and larger usefulness in the enterprise 
 
he had undertaken opened before him, it became desirable that 
 a benevolent and patriotic Society should be organized at home, 
 which should co-operate with him in his praiseworthy work. 
 Accordingly on the 8th of February, 1864, a public meeting of 
 citizens was held in the Methodist church at Knoxville, for the 
 purpose of forming an Association to receive contributions for 
 the relief of needy people in this region of country and judiciously 
 to administer them. O. P. Temple, Esq., was appointed Chairman 
 and John M. Fleming, Secretary. Upon consultation, a written 
 Constitution was adopted, and the following officers for the year 
 were nominated and chosen : Eev. T. W. Humes, President ; 
 M. M. Miller, Treasurer, and J, M. Fleming, Esq., Secretary. 
 An Executive Committee was also elected, which, after certain 
 changes, finally consisted of the following gentlemen: "William 
 Heiskell, Samuel E. Eodgers, Eev. W. G. Brownlow, E. D. Jou- 
 rolmon, George M. White, John Baxter, J. M. Fleming, 0. P. 
 Temple, David Eichardson, and T. W. Humes. Hon. N. G. Tay- 
 lor was appointed Agent abroad. 
 
 At the first meeting of the Executive Committee, G, M. White 
 was appointed Secretary, and Messrs. G. M. Hazen and J. M. 
 Meek were elected Agents to purchase, at eligible points, supplies 
 of provisions and superintend their transportation to Knoxville. 
 A few weeks subsequently Mr. Hazen went to Cincinnati and 
 New York city upon this mission. Soon after his departure, 
 Messrs. Frederick Collins and Lloyd P. Smith, of Philadelphia, 
 a Committee of the E. T. Eelief Society of Pennsylvania, arrived 
 at Cincinnati, and, through the instrumentality of Mr. Thomas G. 
 Odiorne, expended eight thousand one hundred and six j%% dol- 
 lars in the purchase of articles of food for distribution by this 
 Society, and the payment of the freight upon them to Nashville. 
 From that place the U. S. Government gave them free transport- 
 ation to Knoxville. Messrs. Collins and Smith came in person 
 to this city and had a full and free interchange of opinions with 
 the Executive Committee, in an interview that was mutually 
 
agreeable and encouraging. It was a source of muoli gratification 
 to the officers of this Society that these gentlemen, so intelligent 
 capable, and experienced in business, and in other respects well 
 qualified for the task, undertook at the cost of valuable time and 
 much discomfort, to visit the central point from which their gifts 
 must be distributed. They had thus an opportunity of acquaint- 
 ing themselves upon the theatre of the reported destitution, with 
 interesting and important facts bearing upon the subject. The 
 report of their visit and observations to the Society which com- 
 missioned them has been printed, and given a limited circulation. 
 It has no doubt rendered good service in confirming the repre- 
 sentations which Col.vTaylor had made of the wants of the people 
 of East Tennessee. 
 
 During their stay at Knoxville they communicated, in a letter 
 to the Chairman of the Executive Committee, their views of the 
 proper method of distributing the supplies given to the Society. 
 The plan proposed in this letter was approved by the Committee, 
 and has been adhered to by the General and Local Agents with 
 as much strictness as they have found practicable in the circum- 
 stances. (See A, in Appendix.) 
 
 On the 26th of March Mr. A. G. Jackson was unanimously 
 chosen General Agent, and entered at once upon his duties. 
 About the same time the first instalment of supplies arrived at 
 Knoxville. These furnished for some weeks a sufficiency to 
 meet the urgent wants of the people, so far as means of commu- 
 nication allowed. In the mean time Mr. Hazen had extended 
 his visit to New York city, where he and Col. Taylor received 
 from the Executive Committee of the Boston E. T. Relief Society 
 through its Chairman, Hon. Edward Everett, forty thousand dol- 
 lars for the purchase of supplies. To this sum Mr. Taylor added 
 twenty-six hundred and six dollars of moneys contributed from 
 the State of Maine and paid to him by Gov. Cony, of that State. 
 With these funds Mr. Hazen returned to Cincinnati and expended 
 of them twenty-eight thousand one hundred and ninety-eight ,Yo 
 
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 dollars for various articles, principally flour and bacon, which he 
 imraediatelj shipped to Nashville. At that city some difficulty 
 occurred in regard to the payment of the freight, which threat- 
 ened to become embarrassing. Joseph S. Fowler, Esq., kindly 
 and promptly interposed in behalf of the Society, and advanced 
 for it about two thousand dollars, which was, however, very soon 
 reimbursed by the purchasing agent. The thoughtful and friendly 
 regard shown by Mr. Fowler in this instance as at other times, 
 for the interests of the Society and the welfare of the destitute 
 refugees, deserves commendation. Mr. Hazen bought his stores 
 at an opportune period, when prices were low and shortly before 
 their rapid advance; and a considerable sum was thus saved. 
 Some loss occurred in the transportation of them, as has been 
 unavoidably the case in every shipment to the General Agent ; 
 but in the main they came to hand in good condition. After 
 the election of the General Agent, auxiliary societies were formed 
 in the different counties by their respective citizens. County 
 Agents were appointed by him and confirmed by the Executive 
 Committee. The people generally manifested a proper and laud- 
 able interest in the subject ; and in some instances the County 
 courts co-operated in the effort to make the fund contributed as 
 useful as possible. The persons selected as County Agents have, 
 with few exceptions, proved all that could have reasonably been 
 desired and expected. The plan adopted by the Executive Com- 
 mittee in the work of distribution was to apportion the supplies 
 to the various counties according to their voting population. In 
 some portions of the country, however, the scarcity was great 
 and pressing, and other portions could not be reached. It was 
 therefore thought advisable to direct that twice the quantity of 
 supplies originally apportioned to several accessible counties, 
 where the destitution was urgent, should be issued to them. 
 This was done in the case of the counties of Knox, Sevier, Rhea, 
 Roane, Campbell, Claiborne, Scott, and Morgan, and to the great 
 relief of their citizens, without detriment to those of other coun- 
 
ties. For it was provided that the additional amounts given to 
 the above-named counties should be only by anticipation of what 
 would subsequently be apportioned to them, and they were duly 
 placed to their debit, A list of the counties that formed auxiliary 
 associations, with the names of their agents and the dates of their 
 appointments, will be found annexed. (See B.) 
 
 Mr. Hazen was succeeded about the last of March in his pur- 
 chasing and forwarding agency by Mr. T. G. Odiorne, of Cincin- 
 nati. This gentleman was favorably known to the Philadelphia 
 Committee, and having had much experience in business in the 
 city where it was thought expedient to make purchases for the 
 Society, his services were solicited. In view of all the circum- 
 stances he accepted the appointment, though not without reluc- 
 tance. It should be mentioned to his praise that he declined, in 
 advance, any pecuniary remuneration for his agency. lie was 
 soon intrusted from the funds of the Society with more than 
 thirty-five thousand dollars, to which the Philadelphia Society 
 * added fifteen thousand dollars, sent from it to him directly. On 
 the 25th of April, twenty thousand dollars, being a remittance 
 by Mr. Everett from the Boston contributions, were forwarded 
 to him. These sums, with others sent to him, Mr. Odiorne has 
 faithfully disbursed, under directions of the General Agent and 
 as the state of the market at Cincinnati invited or justified, and 
 the opportunities of transportation allowed. The supplies bought 
 by him up to the time when the low stage of water on the Ohio 
 and Cumberland rivers would no longer permit him to forward, 
 have, excepting such losses as seem almost necessary in the pre- 
 sent state of transportation, arrived in safety. (See Statements 
 marked C and D.) 
 
 Early in May a large number of refugee families, driven by 
 distress and want and the distractions of war, came from the 
 upper counties of East Tennessee into Knoxville. At first the 
 stream of migration seemed inclined to pass on to Chattanooga 
 and Kashville. Night after night, men, women, and children, 
 
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 numbering from twenty to forty, lay in the open air at tlie Eail- 
 road Depot, awaiting the train of cars of the next day, to travel 
 westward. The attention of Gen. Carter, Pro v. Mar. General, and 
 other U. S. officials, was called to the subject, and through their 
 kindly agency a building was appropriated to the use of these 
 unhappy wanderers, as a temporary refuge and resting-place. 
 Fresh accessions in crowds required additional accommodations, 
 and Eev. Mr. Browulow, Treasury Agent, humanely interposed, 
 and was the means of making further provision for their shelter 
 and comfort. The order of General Sherman, discontinuing the 
 issuance of rations from Government stores to destitute citizens, 
 had recently been published. It became, therefore, especially 
 the duty of this Society to provide the refugees at this point, 
 some of whom had walked long distances, with means of suste- 
 nance. While doing this, the Executive Committee desired to 
 adhere as much as possible to their original purpose and plan of 
 distribution to counties according to population. The policy 
 was therefore adopted of encouraging the formation at Knoxville 
 of auxiliary societies, composed of respectable and intelligent 
 residents who were recently citizens of the more eastern counties 
 from which the destitute refugees came. These organizations 
 were accordingly made by gentlemen of the counties of Wash- 
 ington, Greene, Cocke, Sullivan, and Hawkins. Agents for them 
 respectively were appointed, who received the portions due their 
 counties and distributed them to their people at this place. A 
 very considerable quantity of provisions and clothing has thus 
 been issued, which would have been sent within the territory of 
 the counties and there dispensed, had not the way been barred 
 by the military situation. The only counties to which no access 
 has been possible with supplies, and which have had no agents 
 provided at Knoxville, are Carter, Johnson, and Hancock. Some 
 refugees from these have arrived here and had their wants re- 
 lieved by the General Agent. 
 
 As the summer advanced, the scarcity, which at the beginning 
 
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 of the Society's operations was widespread, and especially in 
 some localities was of a serious and distressing nature, became 
 sensibly diminished. The reasonable objections entertained in 
 some minds against the system of gratuitous gifts, because of the 
 encouragement it affords to idleness and improvidence, the habit 
 of dependence it creates in the mind, and other moral evils it is 
 liable to entail, could not be permitted to rule when the question 
 as regards a portion of the people of 'East Tennessee was one 
 bordering upon life and death. Some of these families, it is true, 
 had been in time of peace leading easy and thriftless lives, content 
 with their humble position and small means, and unsolicitous to 
 improve their condition; yet, by the bounty of a generous Provi- 
 dence and through the general plenty of the land, having a suffi- 
 ciency of food and clothing. But the prevailing scarcity of 
 1863-4 was the result, not of the improvidence of the people, 
 but of the calamitous influences of war. The country had been 
 drained of its able male population to do military service, and 
 diminished crops were the unavoidable consequence. And after 
 the occupation of Knoxville in September, 1863, by Major-Gen. 
 Burnside, and the march of Gen. Longstreet through East Ten- 
 nessee a few months later, many of the people were left, not only 
 with almost empty granaries and larders, but without the means 
 of replenishing them. A portion of their claims against the 
 Government for provisions and forage, which they were able to 
 present in due form, were paid; but a vast amount of unadjusted 
 claims remained. The circulation of U. S. Treasury notes, which 
 soon became the only currency, was comparatively limited. Had 
 it been much larger, the difficulty of obtaining transportation from 
 a distance by the only line of railroads would still have interfered 
 with the work of restoring the wonted abundance of the country. 
 The scarcity was therefore just such an evil as might have befallen 
 any people under the same or like circumstances. The aid that 
 had been afforded for a time to some destitute families, by the 
 Government, was withdrawn by the military order already spoken 
 
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 of. And it is not difficult to perceive the importance of the 
 movement for the relief of the people by voluntary contribu- 
 tions, which Mr. Taylor prosecuted at the North and East, and 
 in which this Society was a colaborer. Evidently the hand of 
 the Divine Providence was in it. In the absence of supplies 
 which have thus been obtained and distributed, there would have 
 been no earthl}"- source of help and sustenance to which the more 
 needy of the people could have looked with hope of succor. 
 Their once prosperous neighbors could have given them little or 
 no aid in their extremity, for they themselves, in numerous 
 instances, were reduced to unusual straits in regard to nourish- 
 ment. 
 
 As little doubt is there that the relief afforded by this Society 
 has been immense, as that the scarcity was great. Although the 
 quantity of provisions dispensed to each person or family has 
 been small, yet the assistance timely afforded to a multitude of 
 cases, while it shut the door against starvation, or recovered the 
 failing strength and capacity for labor, also gave encouragement 
 to desponding minds and imbued the hearts of men with hope of 
 a better day and more favorable circumstances. The Society 
 has therefore reason to congratulate itself and its friends upon 
 the result of its labors. All due praise should be given to the 
 patriotic and benevolent donors of the funds which have been 
 instrumental of such substantial blessings to the needy and suf- 
 fering. But especially should thanks and praise be rendered to 
 Him who is the giver of every good and perfect gift, and from 
 whom all good counsels and works proceed, that it pleased Him 
 to put it into the hearts of His servants to enter upon this under- 
 taking and to prosper their faithful endeavors. (See Statements 
 E and F.) 
 
 It is worthy of notice that the contributions for the relief of 
 East Tennessee have come mainly from a few sources. The 
 principal of these was the Boston Society. Mr. Taylor's address 
 in that city was eloquent and successful. The large amount of 
 
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 $100,000, raised and appropriated by that Society, was due not 
 less to the personal influence and persevering efforts of the Hon, 
 Edward Everett, than to the friendly and charitable dispositions 
 of the people of Massachusetts towards their fellow countrymen. 
 The kindly and generous spirit manifested in the cheerfulness 
 and munificence of these gifts should never be forgotten by the 
 people of East Tennessee. The memory of it, and especially as 
 shown by the chief benefactor in the case, deserves to be trans- 
 mitted to their children with gratitude and love. 
 
 The Philadelphia Society, which was earliest in this field of 
 humane and Christian enterprise, is also entitled to a grateful 
 remembrance. Although the sum of its benefactions was much 
 less than that of the Boston Society, yet the hearty good-will and 
 active sympathy manifested by it in this direction have been 
 constant from the beginning; and the correspondence of the 
 Chairman of its Executive Committee, L. P. Smith, Esq., with 
 this Society, has tended to keep alive fraternal feelings and to 
 encourage a diligent and hopeful prosecution of the work. It is 
 an interesting fact in this connection, that perhaps the first effort 
 for the relief of the people of East Tennessee was made in the 
 city of Philadelphia, by Mrs. Hallowell and Mrs. Canby. They 
 and other ladies contributed the proceeds of a Fair and several 
 boxes of clothing, which have been the means of doing much 
 good to the destitute. The State of Maine, remote as it is from 
 us in distance, has proved to us in this emergency a stanch friend 
 and a ready helper. The Portland Society, through Mr. F. C. 
 Moody, has contributed nearly eight thousand dollars to our 
 treasury, and from other parts of the State by Gov. Cony, over 
 three thousand dollars have been received by the hands of Col. 
 Taylor. From several places in other States smaller amounts 
 have been given, making in the aggregate, with the donations 
 from Boston, Philadelphia, and Maine, the sum of nearly one 
 hundred and forty thousand dollars. (See G and II, in Appendix.) 
 
 The clothing made up by the Ladies' Sewing Circle of Boston 
 
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 and that contributed by various persons and places in Massacbu- 
 setts, has been of great benefit. Indeed, such has been the 
 demand for articles of dress, that there is reason to conclude that 
 the attention of the Society might have been sooner judiciously 
 directed to the supply of the wants of the people in regard to 
 clothing. The destitution in this respect is still deplorable. So 
 many houses in the country, with their contents, have been de- 
 stroyed, so many persons have been stripped of their wearing 
 apparel, and the difficulty of replacing the loss by ordinary 
 methods has been so great, that the Society some months since 
 directed the purchase of a considerable quantity of shoes, woollen 
 goods, and blankets. Twelve thousand dollars were accordingly 
 expended in the purchase of these, through the friendly inter- 
 vention of Mr, Everett, at Boston, and of Mr. Smith and the 
 Executive Committee at Philadelphia; — seventy-five hundred 
 dollars in shoes at Boston and forty-five hundred in woollen goods 
 at Philadelphia. None of these have yet been received. In the 
 mean time the numerous boxes of clothing from the Boston So- 
 ciety have, under a discreet management, relieved hundreds — we 
 might say thousands — of distressed people, clothed the ragged 
 or naked, and touched with pleasure many a downcast heart 
 that was ready for joy over little comforts and little acts of kind- 
 ness. (See Statement I.) 
 
 The supplies of the Society have been issued to Agents of 
 twenty-three counties, within which they have been distributed 
 to the people. Reports from these Agents (excepting those of the 
 counties of Cumberland, Hamilton, Marion, McMinn, Polk, and 
 Sequatchie), and also reports from the Agents at Knoxville for 
 Washington, Sullivan, Greene, Hawkins, and Cocke, have been 
 received and are on file with the General Agent. They are gen- 
 erally of a very satisfactory nature. In nearly every instance 
 the names of the persons or families to whom supplies were dis- 
 pensed by the Local Agent are preserved by them in full, the 
 amount in pounds of each issue, and the amounts respectively 
 
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 that have been given and sold. A considerable disparity appears 
 in tlie returns of different County Agents as to the quantity of 
 provisions gratuitously given in comparison with the quantity 
 sold. This is owing partly to the greater or less destitution of 
 the people of the count)^, and partly to the different dispositions 
 and policy of the agents. In some cases humanity required that 
 there should be large gratuitous distribution ; in others, more 
 abundant means and currency allowed much to be sold. The 
 instructions of the General Agent to all the Local Agents were 
 in agreement with the plan of distribution recommended by the 
 Philadelphia Committee, which this Society approved. This 
 plan contemplated that the supplies should be given in all cases 
 where the parties were unable to buy, but in all others should be 
 sold at prices somewhat above their original cost: and it has 
 been observed with a commendable degree of fidelity. At the 
 same time it was necessary and proper that a considerable share 
 of discretion should be left to the County Agents. (See State- 
 ments K and L.) 
 
 Special donations have been made for the benefit of destitute 
 refugees at several distant places, as at Murfreesborough, Nash- 
 ville, and Cincinnati. The authority given to the Agent at this 
 last named place to bestow relief has not been used by him, 
 except to a very limited extent. The Pennsylvania Society early 
 in the year contributed fifteen hundred dollars of its funds to the 
 Nashville Eefugee Aid Society, and to that sum was added ano- 
 ther donation of one thousand dollars in October from this Society. 
 As the Government gave two-thirds rations to all refugees at 
 Nashville, while needy people resident in East Tennessee received 
 no aid from that source, it was thought advisable by the Execu- 
 tive Committee not to make a larger contribution at that time, 
 but it expressed a readiness to give further aid, if necessary. 
 Contributions were made at two different times for the relief of 
 very destitute families, principally those of soldiers, at Loudon ; 
 and a donation of a small quantity of provisions was made to 
 
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 sufferers at Lookout ^Mountain, Ga., wbich failed of its destina- 
 tiou, but will be renewed. 
 
 On the 10th of August, Mr. A. G. Jackson having served the 
 Society with fidelity, energy, and ability for more th^n four 
 months as General Agent, resigned his office, and Eev. E. E. Gil- 
 lenwaters was unanimously elected in his stead. Under his con- 
 trol and direction the affairs of the Association have been well 
 and prosperously conducted. He has labored, and successfully 
 so, to perfect order and method in the business of his agency, 
 and to place its operations, in view of his diminished means, upon 
 a safe and economical footing. It is with pleasure that testimony 
 is here borne to his indefatigable attention and intelligent man- 
 agement, as well as to the capacity, industry, and faithfulness of 
 Mr. David A. Deaderick, who from the beginning of the Society 
 has filled the office of Clerk, and to the diligence and usefulness 
 of Mr. Jourolnion in promoting the interests of the Society. 
 
 The present condition of things is promising as to the future 
 usefulness of the Society and its fulfilment of the purpose of its 
 creation. Mr. Odiorne had purchased additional supplies prior 
 to the 1st of December, to the amount of about twenty thousand 
 dollars. These, with the exception of some packages destroyed 
 on the way, and the large stock of shoes purchased some time 
 since at Boston, are yet in course of transmission to this place ; 
 but there is a prospect of their arrival here during the ensuing 
 month. 
 
 The Society, by the considerate and friendly action of the War 
 Department, has received free transportation for its supplies from 
 the beginning, on the railroads between Nashville and Knoxville. 
 Eecently Mr. Odiorne was kindly given permission to send from 
 Cincinnati by Government conveyance, free of expense, to Knox- 
 ville. This privilege was for several reasons desirable, and will 
 prove very beneficial. Unfortunately, in the use of it some pro- 
 visions and the woollen goods purchased at Philadelphia were 
 burned at Johnsonville, on the Tennessee Kiver, with a large 
 
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 amount of Government stores, by order of the Federal Com- 
 mander at that post, to prevent their being captured. 
 
 Mr. A. G. Jackson, who has been intrusted with eleven thou- 
 sand dollars for the purchase of woollen and cotton goods, shoes, 
 and other articles suitable for distribution to the destitute fami- 
 lies of the country, has judiciously made his investments in 
 Philadelphia and New York, but some delay is expected in the 
 transportation. 
 
 The unavoidable detention of the supplies of the Society on 
 the way from Cincinnati left the General Agency for a time 
 without the means of distribution. In this exigency it became 
 necessary to request the humane aid of the U. S. authorities at 
 Knoxville in behalf of refugee families ; and they have given 
 such attention to their wants as seemed to be proper and requi- 
 site. The number of these unhappy people congregated at this 
 place has somewhat varied at different times, but has generally 
 averaged several hundreds. Many have come and gone in vari- 
 ous directions, and their places have soon been filled by new 
 arrivals. Some of the cases of destitution which have thus pre- 
 sented themselves for sympathy and relief have been of a very 
 distressing nature. Suitable efforts have been made for their 
 nourishment and comfort. Medical advice and aid to those of 
 them who were sick have been administered under direction of 
 the Executive Committee, and a number of benevolent ladies of 
 the city have labored with zeal and alacrity to supply their 
 wants. A building for their use is now in course of construction 
 on the south side of the river by Gen. Tilson, which for several 
 reasons it is believed will prove better adapted to their occupancy 
 than houses immediately in the town. 
 
 In August last Col. N. G. Taylor, who, since November, 1863, 
 had given himself ardently and efficiently to the work of raising 
 means for the relief of the people, suspended his active and direct 
 labors. Upon several accounts he considered this advisable: nor 
 did he think it expedient to renew them until after the excite- 
 
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 ment of the popular mind growing out of the recent Presidential 
 election had ceased. It was his intention, at the date of his last 
 communications, to enter at an early day upon an extensive tour 
 in the duties of his agency, and he was sanguine that his appeals 
 for friendly sympathy and benefactions would be attended with 
 all the success which could reasonably be anticipated. 
 
 The fact that Col. Taylor initiated this enterprise, and had 
 already rendered valuable services towards its general object, was 
 sufficient to indicate him at the beginning as a specially suitable 
 person for the office to which he was appointed. But there were 
 other considerations entitled to weight in favor of selecting hira. 
 The serious losses of property which he had suffered by violent 
 spoliation during the war, and the comparative destitution in 
 which his large family were placed at the home from which he 
 was an exile, made hira a fit representative of the large class of 
 his fellow-citizens who were in circumstances of trouble and 
 want. These same considerations deserved, and no doubt exerted, 
 an influence in determining the Committee to extend to him such 
 remuneration as should be respectable in amount, and correspond 
 with the prominency of the position assigned to him and with the 
 necessities of his family, as well as be a proper acknowledgment 
 of his zeal, eloquence, and labors. The Association tendered him 
 a unanimous vote of thanks at a meeting held on 6th February, 
 1865. 
 
 The Executive Committee was increased during the summer 
 by the election to its membership of several persons from coun- 
 ties east of Knoxville, but now resident here, viz.: Hon. Thomas 
 A. R. Nelson, formerly of Washington, Samuel Snapp, of Sulli- 
 van, and A. M. Piper, of Greene. The Committee, especially 
 those who have been active in it from the beginning of their 
 membership, have given a cheerful, intelligent, and zealous co- 
 operation in the conduct of the affiiirs of the Association and the 
 advancement of its interests. In this commendation, Mr. "White, 
 as Secretary, and Mr. Miller, Treasurer, deserve to share. The 
 
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 trust reposed in tlic Conimittce was large and delicate. It was to 
 receive and invest a fund of about a hundred and forty thousand 
 dollars, contributed by persons in difi'crent and distant States^ 
 who had little or no personal acquaintance with them, and to 
 issue the supplies purchased with that fund for the benefit of the 
 people of all East Tennessee, embracing no less than thirty-one 
 counties. This work was to be accomplished in the midst of war, 
 even within our own borders; of unusual difficulties in the way 
 of transportation, and of a condition of society morally unfavor- 
 able to the success of the undertaking. Yet, in the face of all 
 the obstacles that have attended it, the work has been prosecuted 
 with energy and perseverance; and although not wholly without 
 error, yet with such results as, it is trusted, will be satisfactory to 
 the public. The harmony of counsel and action among those 
 engaged in it has never been seriously marred. As might have 
 been expected in the management of so large a fund, intended to 
 be benevolent and patriotic, there has been more or less of com- 
 plaint and censure of those intrusted with it, from some of its 
 beneficiaries, especially concerning the manner of local distribu- 
 tion. Unquestionably mistakes have been made in the direction 
 of both the general and local agencies. They are, however, una- 
 voidable in the conduct of all human affairs. In this case they 
 have been promptly amended in some particulars, and in others 
 they have been of an unimportant nature and not deserving of 
 serious attention. The only losses that have occurred have been, 
 with one exception, comparatively small, and principally from 
 accident or theft in the transportation of the supplies from Cin- 
 cinnati. During Wheeler's raid a small quantity of provisions 
 in charge of the Local Agent at Maryville were burned with the 
 building in which they were stored. The most serious loss oc- 
 curred by fire at Johnsonville. It is hoped that remuneration 
 will be made in this instance by the U. S. Government, especially 
 in view of the fact that a large proportion of the beneficiaries of 
 this Society are the families of Federal soldiers. 
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 The fact that the Society has carried on its operations and paid 
 all its necessary expenses without drawing to any extent upon 
 the funds contributed from abroad, serves to illustrate the method 
 of its management. Those funds or their equivalent have all 
 been expended in the purchase of supplies of food and clothing, 
 so that there has not been the actual loss of a dollar in the trans- 
 mission and distribution of all that has been given at a distance 
 for the relief of the people. The net receipts from sales have 
 furnished a considerable fund, which, after the payment of cur- 
 rent expenses, has been applied towards the purchase of addi- 
 tional stores, and thus enlarged the ability of the Association to 
 fulfil the original purpose of its creation. 
 
 KsoxviLLE, Tenn., Jan. 1, 1865. 
 
 Note. — Since the above was prepared and read before the Executive Com- 
 mittee sorrowful tidings have been received of the unexpected decease of Mr. 
 Everett, whose name and kibors fill so conspicuous and honorable a place in 
 the annals of the Society for the past year. At the Anniversary meeting of 
 the Association on the 6th of February, 18G5, the following Resolutions were 
 offered by John Baxter, Esq., were unanimously adopted, and ordered to be 
 printed with this Report: — 
 
 '•Resolved, That this Society has learned with great regret that the Hon. 
 Edward Everett, of Boston, has departed this life; and that while we deplore 
 in common with our fellow-countrymen the loss of his eminent talents, patriot- 
 ism, and moral worth, we especially sympathize in this national affliction 
 because of his ardent, friendly zeal on behalf of the people of East Tennessee 
 when, stricken by the hand of war, they were visited by serious and painful 
 destitution of the means of sustaining life. 
 
 '^Resolved, That this Society will cherish his memory with gratitude and 
 affectionate regard, feeling assured that as the people of East Tennessee are 
 true hereafter to themselves and to their past history, they will treasure his 
 name as a household word, and build to him in their hearts a monument more 
 durable than brass." 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Loudon, March 14, 18G4. 
 Rev. and Dear Sir : — 
 
 Tliinking that after our arrival at Knoxville we might not have time 
 to prepare a memorandum of the views of the Pennsylvania Relief Asso- 
 ciation for East Tennessee in regard to the distribution of their supplies, 
 we take advantage of a detention at this point to do so in advance. 
 
 The motives which have influenced the contributors to our fund are of 
 a twofold character : First, to testify in the unmistakable language of 
 deeds to their admiration for the fidelity of the people of East Tennessee 
 to the flag of their country under the hardest trials ; and, secondly, to 
 perform an act of Christian charity. 
 
 We are well assured that the East Tennessee Relief Association, of 
 which you, sir, are the honored President, are actuated by similar patri- 
 otic and humane feelings in undertaking to co-operate with us in this 
 labor of love ; and accordingly it is rather with a view of placing on 
 record our wishes in this matter than with any idea of trammelling you in 
 your good work, that we respectfully recommend the following plan for 
 the distribution of the provisions, seeds, clothing, and other necessaries 
 DOW on their way to you, and hereafter to be forwarded. 
 
 First, in accordance with the suggestion of your agent, Mr. Hazen, 
 with whom we conferred in Cincinnati, we would advise that these sup- 
 plies should be sold, and not given away, in all cases where the applicants 
 are able to purchase ; and that even when sold a preference should be 
 given in the order to be enumerated below. 
 
 Second, that Union families who have suffered at the hands of the 
 rebels on account of their loyalty should have the first and largest por- 
 tion. After them, other families who have adhered throughout to the 
 Federal Government. Next, such as, whatever their past conduct, do 
 now adhere to the same ; and, lastly, to the old men, women, and chil- 
 dren of such families as now have representatives in the so-called Con- 
 federate array. In our view, no part of this bounty was intended for 
 secessionists of the fighting age. 
 
20 
 
 In conclusion, we would suggest that a regular record should be kept 
 by your Association of the course which these supplies shall take, with 
 a view of ultimately eml)odying its results in a report for the satisfaction 
 of the contributors to the fund. 
 
 Hoping that the work which our two associations have undertaken in 
 common may tend to draw together by the ties of love your people and 
 our people, and to show to the world that while the loyal men of these 
 Fnited States of America are determined to crush rebellion, they are more 
 than ever united at heart. 
 
 We have the honor to subscribe ourselves, 
 
 Dear sir, yours with much respect, 
 
 FRED. COLLINS, 
 LLOYD P. SMITH, 
 Commissioners of the Pennsylvania Belief Asso. for East Tennessee. 
 
 Rev. Thomas W. Humes, President of the East Tennessee Relief Associa- 
 tion, KnoxviUe, Tennessee. 
 
 B. 
 
 COrSTlES. 
 
 KAME5 OF AGE.VT3. 
 
 Anderson, 
 
 George W. Leath, 
 
 Bledsoe, 
 
 Charles R. Thompson,) 
 Isaac Robinson, ) 
 
 Blount, 
 
 Spencer Henry, 
 
 Bradley, 
 
 G. W. Alexander, 
 
 Campbell, 
 
 L. P. Vinsant, "^ 
 Reulien Rogers, Act. Agt.,3 
 
 Claiborne, 
 
 W. W. Hollingsworth,| 
 Lewis Harmon, 3 
 
 Cocke, 
 
 Rev. William Cureton, 
 
 Cumberland, 
 
 Thomas B. Swan, 
 
 Grainger, 
 
 Joseph Bryant, "(^ 
 J. D. Curl, i 
 
 Greene, 
 
 A. M. Piper, 
 
 Hamilton, 
 
 A. G. W. Puckett, 
 
 Hawkins, 
 
 Fred. Mitchell, 
 
 Knox, 
 
 R. D. Joroulmon, 
 
 Marion, 
 
 S. A. Rodgers, 
 
 McMinn, 
 
 John F. Slover, 
 
 Meigs, 
 
 James R. Gettys, 
 
 Monroe, 
 
 John Minness, 
 
 Morgan, 
 
 A. H. Cross, 
 
 BATE OF APPOrNTMKNT. 
 
 April 13. 
 
 June IL 
 
 April 19. 
 
 May 22. 
 
 May T. 
 
 May 4. 
 
 June 1. 
 
 May 28. 
 
 April 9. 
 
 May 4. 
 
 June 18. 
 
 May 4. 
 
 April 9. 
 
 May 28. 
 
 April 27. 
 
 May 14. 
 
 April 13. 
 
 May 7. 
 
21 
 
 COnNTlEF. 
 
 Polk, 
 Kliea, 
 Roane, 
 
 Seott, 
 
 Sevier, 
 
 Sequatchie, 
 
 Sullivan, 
 
 Union, 
 
 Washington, 
 
 lips,) 
 ay, J 
 
 KAMKS OF AilKNTS. 
 
 C. M. McClary, 
 R. J. Gaines, 
 Joshua II. Zin, 
 John Philipi: 
 Joseph Lay, 
 
 D. P. Gass, 
 
 G. W. Heard, > 
 H. L. Stephen,) 
 John H. Fain, ) 
 William C. Snapp, I 
 Isaac Bayless, 
 Edward H. West, | 
 J. J. Brown, i 
 
 DATK OF APPOINTMENT. 
 
 April 30. 
 
 May 25. 
 
 April 19. 
 
 May 18. 
 
 April 9. 
 
 June 18. 
 
 May 4. 
 
 April 16. 
 
 May 4. 
 
 c. 
 
 STATEMENT OF THE INVOICE QUANTITIES AND COST OF SUPPLIES 
 BOUGHT FOR THE EAST TENNESSEE RELIEF ASSOCIATION FROM 
 THE BEGINNING TO JANUARY 1, 1865. 
 
 ARTICLES. 
 
 A.\IOCXTS. 
 
 VALUE. 
 
 Bacon (176,622 at 13^, 20,071 at 17 
 
 
 
 and 171^), average cost 13^ c. and 
 
 
 
 17 and"l7^ . . . . 
 
 196,693 lbs. 
 
 $27,028 74 
 
 Sausage .... 
 
 1,710 " 
 
 239 40 
 
 Beans, average cost 5 
 
 10,452 " 
 
 510 76 
 
 Beef, " 14tV 
 
 5,521 " 
 
 770 50 
 
 Coffee, " 40 i 
 
 14,118 " 
 
 5,711 29 
 
 Corn (add 1,600 bags at 56 c. = 
 
 
 
 $896), average cost $1 10 . 
 
 3,200 bush. 
 
 4,302 92 
 
 Flour (4,680 bbls. cost $30,815 60, 
 
 
 
 and 321 bbls.. cost $3,151 65), ave- 
 
 
 
 rage cost $6 58 and $9 81. 
 
 5,001 bbls. 
 
 33,967 25 
 
 Rice, average cost $0 11 
 
 11,233 lbs. 
 
 1,243 33 
 
 Salt, " 2 75 
 
 212 bbls. 
 
 590 00 
 
 Sugar, " 17 . . 
 
 23,338 lbs. 
 
 3,989 69 
 
 Soda, " 8J . . 
 
 42 kegs. 
 
 399 84 
 
 Tea, " 1 53 . . 
 
 191 lbs. 
 
 292 15 
 
 Molasses (438^ galls.), av. cost 65 c. 
 
 10 bbls. 
 
 285 03 
 
 Crushed Sugar .... 
 
 3,730 lbs. 
 
 736 70 
 
 Mackerel 
 
 117 kits. 
 
 286 55 
 
 Cheese 
 
 100 boxes. 
 
 319 99 
 
 Mustard and Pepper 
 
 8 doz. 
 
 5 20 
 
 Farina and Pearl Barley . 
 
 75 lbs. 
 
 5 63 
 
 Corn Meal 
 
 2 bbls. 
 
 10 22 
 
 
 $80,695 19 
 
22 
 D. 
 
 AMOUNT AND VALUE OF SUPPLIES RECEIVED AT KNOXVILLE TO 
 JANUARY 1, 1865. 
 
 ARTICLES. 
 
 AMOUNTS. 
 
 VALUE. 
 
 Flour, cost $6 58 and $9 81 
 
 4,736 bbls. 
 
 $32,129 88 
 
 Bacon, " 13j3 . 
 
 192,296 lbs. 
 
 26,477 68 
 
 Beans, " 5 
 
 
 9,926 " 
 
 496 30 
 
 Beef, " 14-jV . 
 
 
 5,214 " 
 
 734 30 
 
 Coffee, " 40^ . 
 
 
 13,957 " 
 
 5,652 58 
 
 Corn (add bags $775 60), cost 
 
 $1 10 
 
 2,770 bush. 
 
 3,822 60 
 
 Rice, cost §0 11 
 
 
 10,886 lbs. 
 
 1,197 46 
 
 Salt, " 2 75 
 
 
 84 bbls. 
 
 231 00 
 
 Snjrar, " 17 
 
 
 22,129 lbs. 
 
 3,761 93 
 
 Soda, " 9 52 per keg 
 
 
 39 kegs. 
 
 371 28 
 
 Molasses, " 65 
 
 
 395 galls. 
 
 256 75 
 
 Tea, " 1 53^ . 
 
 
 191 lbs. 
 
 293 18 
 
 Crnshed Sugar, cost 19 j 
 
 
 3,441 " 
 
 679 59 
 
 Cheese .... 
 
 
 95 boxes. 
 
 304 00 
 
 Mackerel 
 
 
 117 kits. 
 
 286 55 
 
 Sansage, spoiled 
 
 
 1,710 lbs. 
 
 239 40 
 
 Corn meal (bought here) 
 
 
 58^ bush. 
 
 87 92 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 $77,022 40 
 
 E. 
 
 AMOUNT AND VALUE OF ISSUES TO THE COUNTIES, TO THE TEN PER 
 CENT. FUND AND ALL OTHER ISSUES, TO JANUARY 1, 1865. 
 
 
 AMOUNT OF 
 
 AMOUNT OF 
 
 AMOUNT OP 
 
 TOTAL 
 
 
 ARTICLES. 
 
 IS.su ES TO 
 
 ISSUES TO 
 
 OTHER 
 
 AMOUNT OF 
 
 VALUE. 
 
 
 C0U.VT1E3. 
 
 10 PER CENT. 
 
 ISSUES. 
 
 ISSUES. 
 
 
 Bacon . 
 
 156,565 lbs. 
 
 21,086 lbs. 
 
 9,867 lbs. 
 
 187,518 lbs. 
 
 $25,819 78 
 
 Beans 
 
 8,191 " 
 
 420 " 
 
 419 " 
 
 8,930 " 
 
 446 60 
 
 Beef 
 
 .3,448 " 
 
 298i" 
 
 760 " 
 
 4,607 " 
 
 634 73 
 
 Coffee . 
 
 12,147 " 
 
 864 " 
 
 417 " 
 
 13,428 " 
 
 5,4.38 34 
 
 Corn 
 
 2,568 bus. 
 
 
 74 bus. 
 
 2,642 bus. 
 
 739 76 
 
 Flour, cost $6 58 . 
 
 4,096 bbls. 
 
 208 bbls. 
 
 92 bbls. 
 
 4,396 bbls. 
 
 28,925 68 
 
 and S9 81.] 
 
 Sold for 
 
 cash at 
 
 Cbattan'ga 
 
 320 " 
 
 
 Rice 
 
 6,946 lbs. 
 
 1,281 lbs. 
 
 .38 lbs. 
 
 8,265 lbs. 
 
 3,042 ,30 
 
 Salt 
 
 74 bbls. 
 
 8 bbls. 
 
 2 bbls. 
 
 84 bbls. 
 
 231 00 
 
 Sugar 
 
 18,017 lbs. 
 
 1,322 lbs. 
 
 842 lbs. 
 
 20,181 lbs. 
 
 3,4.30 77 
 
 So.la 
 
 37 kegs. 
 
 
 
 37 kegs. 
 
 352 24 
 
 Tea 
 
 41 lbs. 
 
 
 76 lbs. 
 
 117 lbs. 
 
 179 59 
 
 Molnsses 
 
 390|^ gals. 
 
 5 gals. 
 
 
 395i gals. 
 
 256 75 
 
 CrM Sugar, sold for 
 
 
 
 
 
 1,678 76 
 
 Cheese ) , , , 
 Mackerel} «''^'* ^"^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 778 30 
 
 Snufage (Rpoiled) . 
 
 
 
 
 
 239 40 
 
 Corn Meal 
 
 14 bus. 
 
 41 bus. 
 
 
 55 bus. 
 
 82 50 
 
 $72,176 39 
 
 Note.— -There is a small quantity of bacon, rice, and sugar on band at the above 
 date. This will in part e.vi)lain the disparity between the amount of supplies received 
 and that distributed. But there are other reasons for it. The packages were in nu- 
 merous instances received as whole when they were defective ; and there was consider- 
 able loss in the issue by retail. 
 
23 
 F. 
 
 AMOUNT OF SUPPLIES SOLD AND DONATED BY THE COUNTIES WHICH 
 HAVE REPORTED TO JANUARY 1, 18G5. 
 
 C0USTIE8. 
 
 SOLB. 
 
 DONATED. 
 
 Andersou 
 
 $315 53 
 
 $1,359 62 
 
 Bledsoe 
 
 
 
 
 
 150 88 
 
 223 76 
 
 Blount 
 
 
 
 
 
 2,V09 69 
 
 1,026 69 
 
 Bradley 
 
 
 
 
 
 648 23 
 
 1,663 81 
 
 Claiborne 
 
 
 
 
 
 3,420 02 
 
 1,438 70 
 
 Cocke . 
 
 
 
 
 
 54 71 
 
 161 50 
 
 Cumberland 
 
 
 
 
 
 400 08 
 
 1,268 53 
 
 Grainger 
 
 
 
 
 
 1,381 75 
 
 2,214 59 
 
 Greene . 
 
 
 
 
 
 1,315 57 
 
 3,378 37 
 
 Hamilton 
 
 
 
 
 
 209 00 
 
 not given. 
 
 Hawkins (in 
 
 part, 
 
 repor 
 
 t missing) 
 
 
 493 27 
 
 1,568 86 
 
 Jeftersoii 
 
 
 
 
 
 265 00 
 
 676 07 
 
 Knox . 
 
 
 
 
 
 6,766 75 
 
 3,744 70 
 
 Meigs . 
 
 
 
 
 
 109 73 
 
 940 25 
 
 Monroe 
 
 
 
 
 
 1,061 84 
 
 767 38 
 
 Morgan 
 
 
 
 
 
 199 42 
 
 791 51 
 
 Rhea . 
 
 
 
 
 
 376 03 
 
 1,061 27 
 
 Roane . 
 
 
 
 
 
 1,263 69 
 
 4,452 89 
 
 Sevier . 
 
 
 
 
 
 1,187 20 
 
 2,482 58 
 
 Scott . 
 
 
 
 
 
 1,206 96 
 
 443 17 
 
 Sullivan 
 
 
 
 
 
 1,034 30 
 
 282 73 
 
 Washington 
 
 
 
 
 
 1,104 98 
 
 528 36 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 $25,674 63 
 
 $30,475 34 
 
 G. 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EAST TENNESSEE RELIEF ASSOCIATION FUND. 
 
 From Cincinnati, by N. G. Taylor .... 
 
 Two donations from individuals at Cincin., &c., per N. G. T 
 
 From Springfield, Ohio 
 
 From Gov. Cony, Maine, per N. G. Taylor 
 
 From Utica, N. Y 
 
 From Portland, Maine, Society, .... 
 
 From Boston Society to Treasurer, $80,500 00 
 
 to Philada. Society, 10,000 00 
 
 to Ladies' Sew'g Cir., 2,000 00 
 
 " " " expended in shoes, 7,500 00 
 
 $347 00 
 55 00 
 
 134 00 
 3,518 90 
 
 500 00 
 7,641 16 
 
 100,000 00 
 
 Amount carried forward 
 
 ,12,196 06 
 
24 
 
 Amonnt brought forward .... 
 
 From Philadelphia Society: — 
 Expended by Messrs. Collins & Smith in 
 
 first purchases by Mr. Odiorne, $8,106 66 
 
 Paid to T. G. Odiorne, Cincinnati, 15,000 00 
 
 Paid to Nashville Refugee Society, 1,500 00 
 
 Paid in purchase of woollen goods and ins., 4,510 00 
 
 Paid to M. M. Miller, Treasurer, &c., 1,200 00 
 
 Paid to Mr. Odiorne in November, 5,867 89 
 
 $36,184 55 
 
 Deduct advance by Boston Society, 10,000 00 
 
 $112,196 06 
 
 From Stamford, Connecticut . . . . . 
 From Ladies' Needle Picket, Quincy, 111., per T. G. 0. 
 
 26,184 55 
 
 . 1,200 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 $139,680 61 
 
 H. 
 
 EXPENDITURES OF THE EAST TENNESSEE RELIEF ASSOCIATION 
 
 ABROAD. 
 By Messrs. Collins and Smith's purchase by Mr. Odiorne 
 By same, per Mr. Odiorne, for freight and insurance* 
 By cash paid for services of agents in connection with said 
 
 purchase to Dr. Wm. Rodgers and others 
 Cash paid by G. M. Hazen for supplies, as per bill . 
 Cash paid by G. M. Ilazen for freight, $4,504 04 ; insur 
 
 ance, $56 90 
 
 Cash paid to G. M. Hazen for services and expenses . 
 Cash paid for goods made into clothing by Boston L. S. C 
 Cash paid by T. G. Odiorne to July 18, for 
 
 supplies and freight as per bills rendered, $49,404 82 
 Cash paid by T. G. Odiorne, as above, to Nov. 30, 27,661 00 
 
 Cash paid by T. G. Odiorne in aid of East Tennessee refugees 
 at Cincinnati ........ 
 
 Cash paid l)y Mr. Everett for shoes in Boston, . 
 Cash paid l)y Philadelphia Committee for woollen goods . 
 Cash paid by same to Nash. Ref Aid Society, $1,500 00 
 Cash paid by Knoxville E.\ec. Com. to same, 1,000 00 
 
 $6,322 55 
 
 1,784 11 
 
 310 45 
 
 28,198 55 
 
 4,560 94 
 
 656 00 
 
 2,000 00 
 
 77,065 
 
 82 
 
 51 
 
 50 
 
 7,500 
 
 00 
 
 4,500 
 
 00 
 
 2,500 00 
 
 Amount carried forward .... $135,449 92 
 
 * The account of Mr. Odiorne for this purchase was settled with the Phila- 
 delphia Coiiiuiittee. 
 
25 
 
 Amount bronffht forward 
 
 Cash paid by A. G. Jackson in Philadelphia and New York 
 for dry goods and his expenses .... 
 
 Cash paid N. G. Taylor one year's salary as agent 
 " " " for one year's travelling expenses, &c 
 
 " " " for gifts gratuitous and otherwise 
 
 Cash paid Jesse E. Peyton, salary and expenses as agent 
 
 Cash paid salaries of agents at Nashville . 
 
 $135,449 92 
 
 11,218 Ifi 
 
 4,000 00 
 
 2,143 94 
 
 570 00 
 
 3,350 00 
 
 801 55 
 
 Whole amount paid for supplies, transportation, etc. $157,534 17 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS AT KNOXVILLE. 
 
 Received by J. M. Fleming, Secretary, subscriptions, &c. . 
 Received by M. M. Miller, Treasurer, from various sources 
 Received by T. W. Humes, proceeds of concert by Minstrel 
 Company ......... 
 
 Per Contra. 
 
 Cash donations and payments per order Exec. Committee 
 
 " " to Refugees per " " " 
 
 Cash in hands of J. M. Fleming, Secretary 
 
 $336 00 
 190 75 
 
 20 50 
 $547 25 
 
 $190 75 
 
 20 50 
 
 33(5 00 
 
 $547 25 
 
 TO THOMAS W. HUxMES, CHAIRMAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 In reference to the clothing contributed from Boston and various 
 places in Massachusetts, I have to report that the following packages 
 were received at this office : — 
 
 1864. July 2.5. 14 boxes and 3 bbls. 
 " 29. 10 " 
 Aug. 1. 5 " 
 Sept. 22. 4 " 
 " 27. 1 " and 2 bbls. 
 
 34 " 5 " 
 
 By special order of the Association, one-half of the contents of 29 
 boxes and 3 barrels were set apart to certain eight counties east of 
 Kiioxville, on account of the greater destitution of clothing among the 
 
26 
 
 people there resident. A moiety was divided accordingly, as in other 
 pro rata distributions, among those counties, and the other half was ap- 
 portioned to the other twenty-three counties of East Tennessee. The 
 clothing in the three packages which arrived in September was distributed 
 among all the counties more equally, and according to the population. 
 The portions allotted to the counties of Sullivan, Washington, Greene, 
 Cocke, Sevier, Grainger, Knox, Monroe, Bledsoe, Roane, McMinn, Brad- 
 ley, Claiborne, and Polk were transferred to their respective agents. The 
 remainder, excepting that which is now on hand, has been distributed at 
 this place, principally to citizens of counties to which it had been as- 
 signed, and who applied for it in person. A record has been kept of the 
 names of individuals or families to whom the goods were given, and of 
 the articles each received, and a detailed report will be made as soon as 
 returns are had from the county agents. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 E. E. GILLINWATER, 
 General Agent East Tennessee Eelief Association. 
 KxoxviLLE, Dec. 31, 1864. 
 
 K. 
 
 AMOUNT PAID TO COUNTY AGENTS. 
 
 COtTNTIES. 
 
 FOR EXPENSES. 
 
 FOR COMMISSIONS. 
 
 Blount 
 
 $221 39 
 
 $373 64 
 
 Bradley .... 
 
 
 
 93 23 
 
 23 15 
 
 Bledsoe 
 
 
 
 65 20 
 
 
 Cumberland . 
 
 
 
 28 25 
 
 166 86 
 
 Claiborne 
 
 
 
 1,548 06 
 
 498 43 
 
 Grainger 
 
 
 
 289 82 
 
 486 44 
 
 Greene .... 
 
 
 
 13 55 
 
 
 Hawkins. Report missing. 
 
 
 
 
 Monroe .... 
 
 
 IIT 05 
 
 181 58 
 
 Meigs .... 
 
 
 
 54 50 
 
 
 Morgan 
 
 
 
 89 84 
 
 50 00 
 
 Roane .... 
 
 
 
 20 00 
 
 591 65 
 
 Rhea .... 
 
 
 
 19 92 
 
 143 73 
 
 Scott .... 
 
 
 
 824 71 
 
 165 01 
 
 Sevier .... 
 
 
 
 462 06 
 
 366 97 
 
 Sullivan 
 
 
 
 20 25 
 
 
 Washington . 
 
 
 
 24 45 
 
 163 42 
 
 
 
 
 $3,952 28 
 
 $3,210 88 
 
27 
 
 CASH RECEIVED FROM THE COUNTIES, EXPENSES 
 
 DEDUCTED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Brought forward. 
 
 $7,421 99 
 
 Blount, 
 
 
 $2,114 
 
 68 
 
 Knox, 
 
 8,804 74 
 
 Bradley, 
 
 
 555 
 
 00 
 
 McMinn, 
 
 600 00 
 
 Campbell, 
 
 
 350 
 
 00 
 
 Marion, 
 
 341 95 
 
 Claiborne, 
 
 
 1,396 
 
 18 
 
 Monroe, 
 
 863 21 
 
 Cumberland, 
 
 
 204 
 
 97 
 
 Morgan, 
 
 60 00 
 
 Grainger, 
 
 
 142 
 
 31 
 
 Rhea, 
 
 216 76 
 
 Greene, 
 
 
 T59 
 
 50 
 
 Roane, 
 
 752 45 
 
 Hamilton, $209 
 
 of 
 
 
 
 Sevier, 
 
 358 17 
 
 it a donation 
 
 for 
 
 
 
 Scott, 
 
 384 96 
 
 the c'y. 
 
 
 418 
 
 00 
 
 Sullivan, 
 
 1,034 05 
 
 Hawkins, 
 
 
 311 
 
 35 
 
 Union, 
 
 235 35 
 
 Jefferson, 
 
 
 570 
 
 00 
 
 Washington, 
 
 1,017 11 
 
 
 $22,090 74 
 
 M. 
 
 CASH RECEIVED AND DISBURSED. 
 
 Received. 
 
 From the County Agents 
 " sales of stock 
 " sales of 10 per cent, fund 
 " other sources 
 
 Disbursed. 
 
 Paid salaries of General Agent and subordinates 
 " travelling expenses of General Agent 
 " rent of store-house .... 
 " general expenses — labor, drayage, &c. 
 " expenses of agency at Nashville 
 " for stock bought at Knoxville 
 " for medical services to refugees . 
 " for wood, stewards, &c., for same 
 " to Mr. Odiorne, Cincinnati 
 
 On hand ...... 
 
 Profit and loss 
 
 $21,738 02 
 
 14,986 34 
 
 1,190 05 
 
 136 55 
 
 $38,050 96 
 
 $1,935 73 
 
 234 
 
 75 
 
 400 
 
 00 
 
 1,810 
 
 97 
 
 801 
 
 55 
 
 1,292 
 
 94 
 
 954 
 
 29 
 
 318 
 
 95 
 
 22,860 
 
 00 
 
 7,358 
 
 64 
 
 83 
 
 14 
 
 $38,050 96 
 
28 
 
 RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION 
 FOR THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE (CALEB COPE, Treasurer). 
 
 Eeceipts. 
 
 Contributions acknowledged in detail, from week to week, 
 
 in the Evening Bulletin of Philadeli)hia . . . $26,840 30 
 
 Interest on deposit in the Mint 141 37 
 
 Received from Edward Everett 10,000 00 
 
 $36,981 67 
 
 Disbursemevts. 
 
 Siipi»lies purchased through Mr. Odiorne in 
 
 March, 1804 
 
 Eeraittance to Mr. Odiorne . 
 Kefugees at Nashville .... 
 Woollen goods bought here . 
 Paid Treasurer Knoxville Association •. 
 Eemittance to Mr. Odiorne . 
 
 $8,106 66 
 
 15,000 00 
 
 1,500 00 
 
 4,510 00 
 
 1,200 00 
 
 5,867 89 
 
 Total acknowledged in statement of E. T. R. A., on page 24 $36,184 55 
 Paid Col. Taylor part proceeds of his lecture at Academy 
 
 of Music 200 00 
 
 Advertising, printing circulars, &c. . ... . . 299 60 
 
 Printing Report . . . . . . . . 197 52 
 
 Part of Messrs. Collins & Smith's Expenses to Knoxville . 100 00 
 
 ),981 67 
 
 1864. 
 April 6. 
 May 1. 
 
 14. 
 16. 
 
 0. 
 
 EAST TENNESSEE RELIEF ASSOCIATION IN ACCOUNT WITH 
 THOMAS G. ODIORNE. 
 
 Paid Keck Sc Shaflfer, bill of bacon 
 
 " W. C. Neff, do. 
 
 " Robert Ray and wife (refugees) . 
 
 " Beaty, Trowbridge & Co., bill of bacon 
 
 " William Clearny & Sons, 300 bbls. flour 
 
 " " Felix Coniierly, drayage 
 
 " " branding and labor on flour 
 
 Amount carried forward .... 
 
 DR 
 
 . 
 
 . $2,520 
 
 42 
 
 . 5,168 
 
 78 
 
 5 
 
 00 
 
 . 2,512 
 
 72 
 
 . 2,149 
 
 50 
 
 15 
 
 90 
 
 1 
 
 50 
 
 $12,373 
 
 82 
 
29 
 
 1864. 
 
 June 
 
 
 
 
 DR. 
 
 Amount hroufrht forward .... 
 
 $12,373 82 
 
 21. 
 
 Paid J. A. Drake, 200 bbls. flour 
 
 1,370 00 
 
 n 
 
 II 
 
 William Clearny & Sons, 200 bbls. flour 
 
 1,340 00 
 
 It 
 
 II 
 
 drayage 4 loads Boston goods 
 
 1 20 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 D. L. Dickenson, 350 bbls. flour 
 
 2,327 50 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 " drayage and cooperage 
 
 13 00 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 1 load Boston goods 
 
 30 
 
 (( 
 
 II 
 
 Keck & Shaffer, 20 lilids. bacon (drayage) 
 
 8 00 
 
 (( 
 
 II 
 
 Beaty, Trowbridge & Co., 20 libds. bacoi 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 (drayage) 
 
 8 00 
 
 11 
 
 II 
 
 W. C. Neff, 20 hhds. bacon 
 
 3,167 73 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 Felix Connerly's bill, drayage, sundry times 
 
 25 70 
 
 28. 
 
 II 
 
 E. P. Trenchard's bill, rice 
 
 1,075 43 
 
 31. 
 
 II 
 
 Trowbridge, Beaty & Co., bacon 
 
 3,043 68 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 steamboat Collossus, freight 
 
 451 25 
 
 It 
 
 II 
 
 " Goody-friends, freight 
 
 477 00 
 
 3. 
 
 II 
 
 William Clearny & Sons, 400 bbls. flour 
 
 2,780 00 
 
 11 
 
 II 
 
 II 250 
 
 1,762 50 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 " " 162 
 
 1,101 60 
 
 6. 
 
 II 
 
 Bare, Harding & Ilowell, 50 bbls. sugar 
 
 2,481 14 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 steamboat Lady Franklin, freight (May 28) 
 
 740 94 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 Nashville, do. (May 19) 
 
 657 15 
 
 i< 
 
 II 
 
 " Mel Meluotte, do. (May 21) 
 
 467 71 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 " Aurora, do. (May 19) 
 
 312 23 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 Nymph, do. (May 28) 
 
 301 98 
 
 " 
 
 II 
 
 " Goody-friends, do. (June 1) 
 
 500 00 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 do. (June 3) 
 
 100 00 
 
 II 
 
 " 
 
 Insurance on goods — 8 boats 
 
 338 11 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 Bare, Harding & Howell, drayage 
 
 2 50 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 check book, stamps, stencil, and paper 
 
 5 75 
 
 Y. 
 
 II 
 
 William H. Healy, salt 
 
 550 00 
 
 10. 
 
 II 
 
 Gilmore, Dunlap & Co., to make draft good 
 
 1,948 84 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 steamboat America, freight of salt 
 
 67 50 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 " Emma Floyd, do. 
 
 382 50 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 fr't 50 bags coff'ee 
 
 80 34 
 
 1.3. 
 
 II 
 
 Brown, Butler & Co.'s bill, 50 bags cofi"ee 
 
 3,456 46 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 Insurance on Emma Floyd, salt 
 
 4 64 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 coffee 
 
 35 00 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 " America, salt 
 
 1 92 
 
 II 
 
 II 
 
 steamboat Nymph, freight on 300 bbls. flour 
 
 600 00 
 
 11 
 
 II 
 noun 
 
 " " insurance do. 
 t carried forward .... 
 
 21 00 
 
 Ai 
 
 $44,382 42 
 
30 
 
 18G4. DR. 
 
 Amount brought forward .... $44,382 42 
 
 Junen. Paid Clearny & Sou's bill, 300 bbls. flour . . 2,119 45 
 
 " 300 do. . . 2,220 00 
 
 " " " d ray age & cooperage on do. 21 00 
 
 " " steamboat Goody-friends, freight on same . 600 00 
 
 " " " " insurance on same 22 20 
 
 July V. " Mrs. Hutchinson, refugee from Kuoxville . 5 00 
 
 8. " McCulloch & Son, bill of seeds ... 3«i 25 
 
 " " drayage, sundry times .... 1 50 
 
 " " steamboat Lady Pike, freight to Louisville . 5 00 
 
 " " Mrs. Burgees and children, refugees . . 5 00 
 
 " " Mr. Lukins, wife, sister, and child . . 5 00 
 
 Aug. 25. " I. Stevens, 10 hhds. bacon . . . . 1,806 45 
 
 " " steamboat Norman, fr't on flour and bacon . 724 50 
 
 26. " D. L. Dickerson, bill for flour, 321 bbls. . 3,178 15 
 
 " Insurance $5,000 to Nashville ... 50 00 
 
 31. " L Stevens, 10 hhds. bacon .... 1,715 97 
 
 " " Drayage, Boston boxes .... 1 40 
 
 " " Insurance per " Naugatuck" . . . 17 16 
 
 " freight 10 hhds. bacon on do. . . . 108 02 
 
 Oct. 18. " Eli Johnson's bill, bacon .... 1,060 38 
 
 " W. O'Hary, bill hhd. bacon ... 958 46 
 
 " Louis Jacobs, do 1,248 00 
 
 22. " George W. Marshall and wife, refugees . 10 00 
 Nov. IT. " Mitchell & Ladd, 20 hhds. bacon . . 3,989 98 
 
 " draft returned to E. E. Gillinwater . .16,000 00 
 
 " Bare, Harding & Howell, 30 bags coffee . 2,332 73 
 
 21. " Gibson, Early & Co., 39 bbls. sugar . . 2,335 46 
 
 " Tweed it Sil)ley, 300 bbls. flour . . . 2,775 00 
 
 23. " Mitchell & Ladd, 20 tierces hams . . 1,102 44 
 " M. Bare <fe Co., 50 kits mackerel . . 125 00 
 " Proctor & Gamble, 10 boxes candles ... 247 00 
 
 26. " L. H. Sargent & Co , 250 bbls. salt . . 1,023 76 
 
 " " Clara Ryan and seven children, refugees . 10 00 
 
 " Mitchell it Ladd, bill bacon ... 810 05 
 
 " " ^Mrs. Bevy and eight children . . . 6 50 
 
 " " Mrs. Thomson and two children . . 10 00 
 
 " E. P. Trenchard, 1 bbl. sngar . . . 60 16 
 
 " D. Harper & Son, 300 bbls. beans . . 2,024 93 
 
 " " stamps, postage, and paper . . . 2 00 
 
 Amount carried forward 
 
 §93,106 32 
 
31 
 
 18G4. 
 
 Amount bronp;lit forward .... 
 
 Xov. 29. Paid Lukiiis, wife and child (additional to the $ 
 " " dra3'agc, cooperage, and labor on shoes fi 
 Boston .... 
 
 31. " iVIrs. Beardsley, refugee 
 Pec. 3. " express, 1 package from New York 
 27. " " 2 do. 
 
 " " 1 do. 
 
 31. " William Clearney & Son, 200 bbls. flour 
 " Baker & Co., 20 bbls. sugar . 
 " " Bare, Harding & Howell, 20 bags coffee 
 
 10) 
 
 om 
 
 18G5, 
 Jan'j 4. 
 
 16. 
 
 24. 
 
 Feb'y 7. 
 (< 
 
 9. 
 
 13. 
 
 21. 
 
 L. H. Sargent & Co., 250 bbls. salt . 
 
 freight on 18 packages from New York 
 
 Gilmore, Dunlap, ft on packages fr. N. Y 
 
 T. Gilpin, 200 bbls. flour . 
 
 Bare, Harding & Howell, 10 bbls. sugar 
 
 L. H. Sargent & Co., 50 bbls. salt 
 
 J. G. Throms, 200 bbls. flour" . 
 
 Clearney & Sons, 100 bbls. flour 
 
 D. L. Dickmin & Co., 200 bbls. flour 
 
 freight on 2 packages from Saugerties, N. T 
 
 Keck & Shaffer, bill 10 hhds. bacon 
 
 McCullough & Son, bill garden seeds 
 
 for stencil (marking packages) . 
 
 Harvy & Drake, bill of oats 
 
 Wm. Glenn & Sons, soda and pepper 
 
 Wilder & Co., onion sets . 
 
 drayage. Eastern goods 
 
 " from ref. room 
 stamps, paper, and envelops 
 insurance as per bill . . . $907 31 
 
 less previously charged in acc't 490 07- 
 balance due you this day .... 
 
 DR. 
 $93,10G 32 
 5 00 
 
 7 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 1 00 
 
 3 00 
 
 1 00 
 1,850 00 
 1,108 50 
 1,418 10 
 
 978 12 
 
 17 10 
 
 22 00 
 
 1,820 00 
 
 698 65 
 
 195 62 
 
 1,790 00 
 
 900 00 
 
 1,820 00 
 
 3 00 
 
 2,247 75 
 
 70 00 
 
 2 00 
 200 09 
 223 14 
 
 87 95 
 7 05 
 2 40 
 2 60 
 
 = 417 24 
 3,205 24 
 
 $112,167 68 
 
 In the purchase of the above I have bought at the lowest price possi- 
 ble, charged all at net cost, and have sent the original bills, receipted by 
 the sellers, to the Agent of the E. T. R. A. at Knoxville. I have 
 declined any compensation for my services, and have in no case accepted 
 any commission for myself from the seller. 
 
 THOS. G. ODIORNE. 
 
EA 
 
 32 
 
 ?T TENNESSEE RELIEF ASSOCIATION IN ACCOUNT WITH 
 THOMAS G. ODIORNE. 
 
 1864. 
 
 April 
 
 21. 
 
 May 
 
 17. 
 
 11 
 
 
 31. 
 
 June 
 
 6. 
 
 
 10. 
 
 
 21. 
 
 July 
 
 8. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 
 Nov. 
 
 16. 
 
 
 It 
 
 
 17. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 25. 
 
 
 (1 
 
 18C5. 
 
 Jan'y 
 
 23. 
 
 
 3. 
 
 By cash from G. M. Hazen 
 
 draft L. P. Smith, Philadelphia . 
 " " on Gilmore, D. & Co. . 
 
 " on " " . . 
 
 " from "Needle Pickets," Quincy, 111., 
 
 draft on Gilmore, D. & Co. . 
 " deduction on Lady Franklin's freight bill 
 " " S. B. Nymjih, 1 bbl. flour short 
 
 " interest on money loaned, $80 
 " cash per express .... 
 
 draft on G. D. & Co. . 
 " amt. from L. P. Smith, Philadelphia 
 " S. B. Goody Friends, 4 bbls. flour short 
 
 draft on Gilmore, D. & Co. . 
 " cash per express .... 
 
 " cash per Mr. Piper 
 
 " "by express .... 
 
 CR. 
 
 $8,569 79 
 
 15,000 00 
 
 10,000 00 
 
 3,000 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 24,000 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 9 00 
 
 80 00 
 
 10,000 00 
 
 16,000 00 
 
 5,867 89 
 
 36 00 
 
 8,000 00 
 
 3,000 00 
 
 2,500 00 
 3,000 00 
 3,000 00 
 
 18G5. 
 
 Feb. 21. By balance due you this day 
 
 " interest on money loaned in Dec'r 
 
 1865. 
 Mar. 3. To cash paid E. E. Gillinwatcr's order 
 
 CiN., March 3d, '65. E. E. 
 
 $112,167 
 
 68 
 
 . 3,205 
 
 24 
 
 20 
 
 83 
 
 },226 07 
 3,226 07 
 
 THOS. G. ODIORNE. 
 
 Jiesolulion of the Executive Committee of the East Tennessee Belief 
 Association, jMssed Feb. 17, 1865. 
 
 Resolved, That this Committee, in behalf of the East Tennessee Re- 
 lief Association, as well as in their own names, tender to Mr. Thomas 
 G. Odiorne, of Cincinnati, their most sincere and cordial thanks for his 
 jjronipt, faithful, disinterested, arduous, and valuable services as our 
 agent; and that wliile we cannot urge him to continue his gratuitous 
 labors, it is with regret that we accept his resignation. 
 
PROCEEDINGS 
 
 OF A 
 
 PUBLIC MEETING AT KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, 
 
 ON THE 
 
 OCCASION OF THE DEATH 
 
 * 
 
 OF THE 
 
 HON. EDWARD EYERETT, 
 
 OF BOSTON, 
 
 WITH THE 
 
 OBITUARY ADDRESSES. 
 
 JANUARY 24, 1865, 
 
PROCEEDIIiGS IN MEMORY OF EDWARD EVERETT. 
 
 At a public meeting, held at the Court House in Knoxville on 
 Tuesday, the 24th instant, on occasion of the death of Hon, Ed- 
 ward Everett, on motion of Samuel E. Rodgers, Esq., Hon. S, 
 J. W. Lucky was called to the chair, and David A. Deaderick 
 appointed Secretary. 
 
 The purpose of the meeting having been explained, Rev. Tho- 
 mas W. Humes offered the following preamble and resolutions: — 
 
 Whereas, In the inscrutable but infinitely wise Providence of God, 
 by which all men finish their allotted course of time and cease to be on 
 earth, Hon, Edward Everett, of Boston, has suddenly departed this life 
 and been gathered to his fathers; and it is becoming not only that the 
 great and good of our fellow-countrymen should be honored while living, 
 but that testimonials of respect should be given to their memory when 
 dead: therefore, 
 
 Resolved, That we have heard with sincere and profound sorrow that 
 Edward Everett is no more. 
 
 Resolved, That we deplore the loss to the country and the world of 
 the presence, the counsels, the example, the voice, and the labors of one 
 so wise as a statesman, so judicious in affairs, so capable as a citizen, of 
 such culture as a scholar, so eloquent as an orator, and so benevolent as 
 a Christian, thus unexpectedly removed in the midst of his usefulness, 
 and of his vigorous old age. 
 
 Resolved, That we recognize in the laudable labors of Mr. Everett's 
 eventful public life at home and abroad, signalized, as his history is, by 
 his Presidency of a University, by his representation of a State in Con- 
 gress, and of the United States at a foreign court, by his direction and 
 control of the most important Department of the E.xecutive of the na- 
 tion, and by his patriotic undertaking to honor the name of Washington, 
 to commemorate his worth in "thoughts that l)reatlie and words that 
 burn," and at the same time to preserve his home as a national inherit- 
 
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 ance, the most gratifying evidences of his rare, superior worth as an 
 American citizen. 
 
 Besolved, That we remember with especial pleasure the recent friendly 
 and active sympathy of Mr. Everett towards the people of East Tennes- 
 see, by which the truth of his patriotism and the sincerity of his Chris- 
 tian benevolence have been so well attested, and thousands of destitute 
 and suffering families have been relieved. 
 
 Besolved, That his generous and successful interposition in their behalf 
 was a fitting deed with which to close a well-spent life — the gentle radi- 
 ance with which his declining sun gilded his country's troubled sky; and 
 that his memory should be cherished with gratitude by the people whom 
 he thus befriended, in the faith and hope that his good work will be 
 rewarded by Him who is the Lord of both the rich and the poor. 
 
 Besolved, That we accept this painful dispensation of the Divine Pro- 
 vidence without a murmur, as a national bereavement; and are thankful 
 that God has given to the country and the race a man of such various 
 and excellent endowments, and has prolonged his life with undiminished 
 energies and increased influence for good, until, at the advanced age of 
 threescore years and ten, he has passed away like a shock of corn, fully 
 ripe, gathered in at its season. 
 
 lion. Horace Maynaed seconded the resolutions, and ad- 
 dressed the meeting as follows : — 
 
 In seconding the resolutions, I give a compendious expression 
 to long cherished sentiments. When I last saw Mr. Everett, at 
 his own house, about the middle of November, it seemed impro- 
 bable that the nation would be called on so soon to pronounce 
 his obituary. I had never seen him more vigorous in health or 
 more cheerful in spirits. To all appearance he was likely to 
 enjoy the green old age allotted to his more advanced contempo- 
 raries of the other continent. His vigor, apparently, continued 
 quite to the last, so that when he passed away, he might almost 
 be thought to have been translated rather than to have died. 
 
 Coming over from the other century, he had been prominent 
 in the public eye for the last fifty years. He and his distinguished 
 brother, the late Alexander H. Everett, were born in Dorchester, 
 a small town near Boston, the sons of a clergyman. I have seen 
 it stated that among his early instructors was Mr. Webster. If 
 
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 so, his subsequent labors in prejiariiig a biography and editing 
 the works of that great man were but a graceful tribute from the 
 pupil to his early preceptor. At the age of thirteen he was 
 admitted to Harvard College. The conditions of admission, a 
 considerable acquaintance with the Greek and Latin rudiments, 
 and a good knowledge of what are called the common English 
 branches, indicate an unusual development. At the age of seven- 
 teen he graduated with the first honors of his class. Selecting 
 his father's profession, he entered the pulpit two years later. 
 Young Buckminster had just died abroad, an invalid in quest of 
 health, leaving a brilliant reputation, which still lingers in tradi- 
 tion and a small posthumous volume. It was no slight distinction 
 to him to have been thought worthy to succeed him in the pas- 
 torate of the famed Brattle Street Church. Here began Mr. Eve- 
 rett's great fame as an orator. Soon he was invited to return to 
 the University as Professor of Greek. The invitation he accepted 
 on condition of being supported abroad for three years prepara- 
 tory to entering upon the duties of the chair. The time was 
 spent chiefly at Gottingen, and he returned with the reputation 
 of one of the first, if not the first Greek scholar of the world. 
 An edition of Buttman's Greek Grammar and a series of lectures 
 upon the Greek language and literature, gave promise of how 
 much classical learning would be advanced by his labors. His 
 personal appearance at this time, as preserved by the painter's 
 art, was that of ruddy-visaged youth, with slender figure and 
 delicate feature, wholly unlike the pictured representation of his 
 later years, so familiar to everybody. 
 
 At this period, he descended into the strong domain of polities. 
 Near the close of Mr. Monroe's administration, party lines little 
 drawn and party names scarcely pronounced, he was selected by 
 the young men, who held him in high admiration, to represent 
 the Middlesex District of Massachusetts. This position he held 
 for ten years, and until he was recalled by the people of his State 
 to fill the office of Governor. After several re-elections, he was 
 
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 defeated in 1839, at the close of a memorable canvass, by a ma- 
 jority of a single vote in the popular ballot. From 18-il to 1845 
 he represented our Government as Minister at the Court of St. 
 James. On his return, he was recalled to the University at Cam- 
 bridge, as President, and devoted several years to its welfare. 
 He subsequently filled the office of Secretary of State, made 
 vacant by the death of Mr. Webster, and then took a seat in the 
 Senate. The latter he resigned, and retired to the condition of 
 private life, but not to the quiet or obscurity that usually sanctify 
 it. Here his official career ended, excepting, I believe, a place 
 in the electoral college at the recent Presidential election. 
 
 Intensely national in his views, and seeing the perils that 
 threatened our nationality, he devoted several years just prior to 
 the outbreak of the present war, in endeavoring to avert the 
 calamitous omens. I adopt his own words: — 
 
 "I need not say to you, my friends, that no one, in a sphere of private 
 influence, has labored harder than I to avert the catastrophe. Thinking 
 that I saw, in the violent agitation which prevailed between the two sec- 
 tions of the country, the gathering of a storm but too likely to burst 
 and desolate the land, I spared no pains to turn aside the peril. After 
 the sectional warfare of opinion and feeling had reached a dangerous 
 height, anxious, if possible, to bring a counteracting and conciliating 
 influence into play, feeling that there was yet one golden chord of sym- 
 pathy which ran throughout the land, in the hope of contributing some- 
 thing, however small, to preserve what remained, and restore what was 
 lost of kind feeling between the two sections of the country, I devoted 
 the greater part of my time for three years to the attempt to give new 
 strength in the hearts of my countrymen, to the last patriotic feeling, in 
 which they seemed to beat in entire unison — veneration and love for the 
 name of Washington, and reverence for the place of his rest. With 
 this object in view, I travelled thousands of miles, by night and by day, 
 in midwinter and midsummer, speaking three, four, and five times a week, 
 in feeble health, and under a heavy burden of domestic care and sorrow, 
 and inculcating the priceless value of the Union in precisely the same 
 terms from Maine to Georgia, and from New York to St. Louis." 
 
 We here remember that, in anticipation of the meeting in this 
 city of the Southern Commercial Convention, in August, 1857, 
 
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 our citizens, witli the best of fuitb, and to arid something of 
 patriotic inspiration and lettered elegance to our necessarily limit- 
 ed hospitality, invited Mr. Everett to be present and repeat the 
 grand eulogy upon the father of his country. We have not for- 
 gotten the coarse and unfeeling assault made upon him in that 
 convention, nor that it emanated from the same quarter and the 
 same spirit that has brought our present troubles upon us. 
 
 Mr. Everett's well-known attitude indicated him as the fittino- 
 
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 candidate for the second place — many thought for the first place, 
 and subsequent events have not tended to change this opinion — 
 upon the Presidential ticket presented to the American people in 
 1860, by those wdio, amidst our dangers, thought they saw a 
 chance of escape by adhering to the fundamental idea of the 
 Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement of the laws. Be- 
 tween those who repudiated this idea altogether and those who 
 failed to perceive that we w^ere in that extremity of danger, the 
 ticket failed, and the sublime proposition remained to be asserted 
 by the dread appeal to arms. Since the war began, the govern- 
 ment has had no truer friend nor firmer supporter. Far above 
 the din of battle rang out the clear music of his silver eloquence, 
 vindicating the cause for which the battle was waged, and full of 
 encouragement to all hearts engaged in the conflict. And, in my 
 judgment, no field of carnage has reported to the nation a severer 
 loss than befell us on that Sabbath morning, the 15th of the pre- 
 sent month, which saw the light of his counsels forever extin- 
 guished, and his words of lofty cheer hushed in the silence of 
 death. He had passed the allotted period of threescore years 
 and ten — years enough, perhaps, for him, but to our backward 
 glance and to our foreboding, they seem quite too few. 
 
 This is not the occasion for extended eulogy upon his character, 
 or criticism upon his works — certainly not to assign his true rank 
 or the fitting place for him to assume in the awful presence of the 
 expecting dead. The time is not yet. The impression of our 
 loss is too fresh. I will venture to remark, in a general way, 
 
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 upon a few points in which he seems to me to stand out in a 
 striking light. He had no specialty. Whatever he attempted 
 was done well. His attainments were both general and minute ; 
 as large as the statesman's, and as exact as the schoolmaster's. 
 Mr, Webster said of him that he had read everything, and re- 
 membered everything he read. It is diflGicult to pass judgment 
 upon his oratory. The popular standard constantly fluctuates 
 according to the prevailing fashion set by the living models that 
 happen to be in vogue. As a classic, I am inclined to think he 
 will rank with the best English orators. Possibly his oratory 
 was more English than American in its moderated tone and 
 reserved power. Two features have always attracted my notice. 
 Every oration, address, or speech, upon the gravest or the slight- 
 est occasion, was always precisely adapted to that occasion, and 
 to no other; and, apparently as a corollary, it followed that he 
 never used his ideas or his language but once. What was once 
 said by him he never repeated. I may add that he alone of all 
 our public speakers, betrayed, unconsciously it may be, the pre- 
 sence of a foreign audience; resulting, no doubt, from the know- 
 ledge that all his principal efforts were reproduced abroad, not 
 without respectful attention in the highest quarters. 
 
 The distressed condition of this part of our State has been the 
 occasion for displaying another phase of his many-sided character, 
 in a series of benevolent efforts on our behalf, at once entitling 
 him to our highest gratitude, and reflecting a shining credit upon 
 his illustrious name. It is not saying too much to affirm that 
 the history of our people during the last four years is one of the 
 most remarkable chapters in the history of the race. Enough is 
 already known of it to excite the admiration of all friends of the 
 country. In Mr. Everett's case it took a practical form, resulting 
 in a fund of upwards of one hundred thousand dollars in cash, 
 expended with a sagacity and fidelity that, aided by the benevo- 
 lent of both sexes among our own citizens, will make thousands 
 of humble suflerers bless the memory of their distant and uu- 
 
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 known friend. My intercourse with him, in connection with this 
 great cliarity, exhibited in him a familiarity with the things of 
 every-day life, dollars and cents, the balances and the yard-stick, 
 that I confess I did not expect in one whose life had passed in 
 the society of scholars and statesmen, and in the closet of the 
 student. 
 
 As we follow his retiring form and begin to take account of 
 our loss, I cannot help feeling that, from the aggregate of learn- 
 ing, the sum total of human knowledge, all that makes up the 
 complex idea of civilization, and lends grace to the affairs of men, 
 he, in departing, has taken away a larger measure than will in 
 like manner be withdrawn by any one he has left behind. I 
 therefore second the resolutions. 
 
 Col. O. P. Temple said: — 
 
 It would be presumptuous in me to attempt to deliver a eulogy 
 on the great man whose memory we have assembled to honor. 
 But, as a member of the Executive Committee of the East Ten- 
 nessee Belief Association, having had the good fortune to read 
 many of the letters addressed by Mr. Everett to the venerable 
 President of that Association during the last twelve months, it 
 may not be out of place for me to say something of his most 
 noble philanthropy and benevolence. Highly as I admired him 
 previously for his great goodness and nobleness of heart, the 
 perusal of those letters filled me with increased admiration. As 
 soon as the tale of the sufferings of our starving people reached 
 him in his far oS home, his whole soul seemed to be absorbed in 
 the generous work of furnishing the means for their relief. A 
 stranger to our people, at an advanced age in life, and surrounded 
 by all the luxuries and comforts that wealth can bestow, one 
 would have supposed that he would have sought his ease amid 
 his books and his friends, reposing in calm dignity upon his great 
 fame, and left to others, younger than himself, the task of dis- 
 tributing the splendid donations, raised mainly by his influence, 
 
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 for our suffering fellow-citizens. But not so. How earnest he 
 was in our behalf, how he sympathized with us in our desolation, 
 how the sad tale of weeping mothers and dying children moved 
 his generous heart, how anxious to guard against even the sus- 
 picion of a misapplication of those benefactions, and how he 
 watched the minutest details of their application, even superin- 
 tending in person the purchase of supplies, will be seen by these 
 letters, if they should ever see the light. AVhat a noble spectacle 
 does his conduct present! The whole civilized world was filled 
 with his fame, yet nearly one-half of his last year on earth was 
 devoted by him to relieving the destitution of a people fifteen 
 hundred miles away, scarcely one of whom he had ever known, 
 and to whom he was bound by no tie except of a common coun- 
 try, a common patriotism, a common humanity, and a common 
 relioion. When the terrible desolations of war had visited our 
 fertile and hitherto abundant valley, and left our people destitute, 
 this great orator and philanthropist pleaded the cause of the 
 naked and starving before the people of Boston and Massachu- 
 setts. And most nobly did Boston and Massachusetts respond 
 to the eloquent appeal. One hundked thousand dollaes were 
 bounteously given. Noble Massachusetts! Chill though her 
 winds, and ungenial her sun, frost-bound though her soil, and 
 her face swept by storms of sleet and snow, yet within there 
 beats a heart as warm as if glowing with tropical heat. Who 
 shall say hereafter, and especially what East Tennesseean, that 
 Massachusetts and Tennessee are not fond sisters, linked together 
 by the bonds of affection, and that her people shall not be, through 
 weal and through woe, our people? 
 
 Of all the men recently living, Mr. Everett was pre-eminent 
 for his honesty and many virtues, as well as for his rare culture 
 and great gifts of mind. He stood amid the corruptions of the 
 times a proud monument of purity and unselfishness. Although 
 he expressed himself freely upon all the great questions that 
 have for many years divided the public mind, he did so with 
 
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 sucli courtesy, with such dignity and candor, and with such un- 
 obtrusive honesty, that he escaped, in a more eminent degree 
 than any of his contemporaries, the detraction so common to par- 
 tisan strife. He was so pure in his life, and so elevated above 
 the atmosphere of the demagogue and mere politician, that even 
 his political enemies could point to no word or act of his to pro- 
 voke the tongue of calumny. His own words, applied by him 
 to the great Washington, are not inappropriate when applied to 
 himself, as compared with all the present generation: "He was 
 
 THE GREATEST OF GOOD MEN, AND THE BEST OF GREAT MEN." 
 
 He has passed away, having filled the full measure of his fame. 
 But his memory still lives, fresh and sweet, in the hearts of his 
 countrymen. And nowhere in the land will it be more cherished 
 and canonized than by the people of this beautiful valley and of 
 yonder frowning mountains, for whom he did so much, and whom 
 he loved so well. In their name, and with a grateful but sorrow- 
 ing heart, I cast this humble tribute on his grave. 
 
 Hon. T. A. R. Nelson said : — 
 
 It is my misfortune, Mr. Chairman, not to have had the plea- 
 sure of a personal acquaintance with the illustrious statesman in 
 honor of whose memory we have assembled; but, having given 
 him my ardent support, in 1860, for the Vice-Presidency, and 
 had occasion to advocate his merits before the people of Tennes- 
 see, I am not ignorant of his world-wide fame. Eloquent as have 
 been the remarks of the gentlemen who have preceded me, it is 
 not in their power or in mine to do full justice to his exalted 
 intellect and moral worth. The contemporary and associate of 
 Adams, Webster, Choate, Clay, Crittenden, and others, whose 
 names will live forever in the pages of American history, he was 
 not surpassed by either, and was the compeer of them all. As 
 an orator, he stood unrivalled in the classic elegance of his dic- 
 tion and the incomparable versatility of his genius. As a states- 
 man, he was renowned for his far-seeing sagacity and his indomi- 
 
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 table independence. As a diplomatist, he did honor to our own 
 in foreign countries. He thought for himself, and acted for him- 
 self, guided by the unerring wish to do right, and fearful alone 
 of doing wrong. He was not blown about by "every wind of 
 doctrine," but maintained, with steadfast sincerity, the honest 
 convictions of his own judgment, when a faithful adherence to 
 principle might, for the moment, endanger his popularity or ob- 
 scure his fame. Amidst the unhappy dissensions which, for more 
 than thirty years, have distracted and divided our country, he 
 was the fearless champion of the Constitution, and willing to 
 extend to all sections, and especially to the South, every right 
 which could be legitimately claimed. In thus acting, he may 
 have sacrificed aspirations which he had the right to entertain, as 
 there was no office within the gift of the people which he was 
 not qualified to adorn. But now that he has passed from among 
 us, the "sober second thoughts" of his countrymen will embalm 
 his memory in their hearts, and posterity will do him justice. 
 With untiring industry and philanthropic zeal, he devoted three 
 years of his life to a hopeful effort for reuniting the breaking 
 fragments of Union by linking to them a common love for the 
 memory of Washington. But, when he failed in this; when, in 
 spite of every warning and entreaty, a reckless and unscrupulous 
 ambition involved our country, without any just or adequate 
 cause, in all the horrors of civil war, he zealously vindicated the 
 authority of government to suppress rebellion, and strenuously 
 opposed disunion in every and in any form. Already his burn- 
 ing words of eloquence shine as gems in works on education, and 
 long after his lifeless form shall have mouldered in the dust, the 
 studious and aspiring young men of our own and other lands 
 will hoard them in the storehouse of memory, declaim them in 
 academic halls, and teach them to children's children through 
 generations yet unborn. And if America has produced a man 
 who, next to Washington, should be held up as an exemplar to 
 the youth of our country; as "a burning and shining light" to 
 
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 guide tliem iu tlic rugged and luborious pathway of knowledge, 
 and as a polar star to direct their most fervid aspirations of patri- 
 otism, that man was Edward Everett. 
 
 But while every patriotic and enlightened citizen of America 
 and many of the most accomplished inhabitants of Europe, will 
 join in mourning the loss of a man so distinguished, may it be a 
 source of consolation to his surviving domestic friends to be 
 informed that here, amidst the far off" mountains of East Tennes- 
 see, there are hearts which were warmed with gratitude to him 
 in life, and are sad, very sad, at the unwelcome tidings of his 
 death. 
 
 It is knoAvn to all of us, and our countrymen in other sections 
 are beginning to know, that the people of East Tennessee have 
 suffered greatly, very greatly, because of their devotion to that 
 Union for which their fathers fought, and bled, and died in our 
 wars with England. For two long years of horror, the people 
 were given up to rebel rule; and banishment, confiscation, impri- 
 sonment, outrage, insult, and murder were endured with a forti- 
 tude which challenges comparison with any heroism displayed 
 amidst the direst persecutions that history records. Since the 
 advent of the Federal army, East Tennessee has been the "dark 
 and bloody ground" where battles have been fought and victories 
 won. Sometimes the one army would have possession, sometimes 
 the other; and this alternate possession has been of frequent 
 occurrence. There is not a county, and scarcely a neighborhood 
 within our borders, that has not witnessed the clash of arms and 
 the fierce conflict of contending hosts. Eobbers and guerillas 
 have infested the country, and the people have been plundered 
 on every hand. There is not a family which has not some tale 
 of woe and anguish to relate. The rich have been stripped of 
 their property, and the poor have, in many instances, become 
 beggars and outcasts. Our own people do not know the extent 
 of the suffering and misery that have existed, for thousands of 
 them are absent in the army, and those at home have a fearful 
 
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 strusr2;le to maintain themselves. During^ these awful contests, 
 hundreds of helpless women and children, many of whom never 
 before knew what it is to want, have sought refuge within the 
 Federal lines at Knoxville. Several persons present, but by far 
 the most benevolent and untiring in his exertions, the honored 
 mover of the resolutions on your table, have visited them when 
 they came, and found them in rags and dirt and filth and wretch- 
 edness. We have heard them relate how they live(J in peace and 
 happiness at home; how they tilled the ground with their own 
 hands, while their husbands and sons were fighting for their 
 country; how rebels and robbers came, and with rude hands and 
 fierce insults stripped their houses of their contents, often burned 
 them to the ground, destroyed their means of subsistence, and 
 drove them away, houseless and wanderers upon the face of the 
 earth. Unable to obtain employment, by reason of the super- 
 abundance of labor, so suddenly brought into this city, many of 
 them, in consequence of army operations and the scarcity of food; 
 would have died of hunger but for the aid afforded by the Eelief 
 Association, an organization voluntarily formed here as the almo- 
 ner of Northern bounty. Hundreds of them have, by this 
 means, been fed, clothed, and supported, while many have died 
 in consequence of their unwonted exposure and fatigue in coming 
 here. It is known that when our worthy fellow-citizen. Colonel 
 Taylor, moved by sympathy for our suffering people, visited the 
 Northern cities last winter, he was seconded in his benevolent 
 enterprise by the active, influential, and persevering efforts of the 
 noble-hearted Everett, and that, through his influence, the people 
 of Boston and other parts of Massachusetts contributed a magni- 
 ficent donation of money and clothing to the relief of our needy 
 population. 
 
 While we are bestowing the meed of praise upon the illustrious 
 dead, let us never forget that the people of Massachusetts, who, 
 for more than a quarter of a century, have been represented in 
 the South as our natural enemies, cold, heartless, and unfeeling, 
 
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 were tlie first to respond, with cliccrful alacrity, to the Macedonian 
 cry which was raised in our behalf, and forwarded, with kindest 
 wishes, the most princely benefaction that was ever bestowed, by 
 equal numbers, on this continent. I hope it will not be regarded 
 as inappropriate to this occasion for me to say, most solemnly, as 
 the utterance of every true heart in East Tennessee — God bless 
 our benefactors, those noble, generous, and disinterested men and 
 women of Massachusetts! May they be blessed with "blessings 
 of heaven above and blessings of the deep that lieth under!" 
 
 And how fittingly and appropriate was it that the life of so 
 eminent a citizen, whose "heart was open as day to melting cha- 
 rity," should close with a crowning eftbrt to alleviate the sorrows 
 of a patriotic community, who lived hundreds of miles distant, 
 whom he never saw and never expected to see on earth! How 
 morally grand and magnificent the spectacle! How touching, 
 how thrilling to us its grateful remembrance ! The refined and 
 wealthy population among whom he dwelt will not "give sleep 
 to their eyes, nor slumber to their eyelids," until they erect a 
 beautiful and costly monument to his memory. They will gaze 
 upon it with chastened feelings of veneration and respect ; and 
 strangers, from every land, will behold it with awe and admira- 
 tion; but he will have a grander and more enduring monument 
 in the hearts of the humble j^oor; and long after the marble shall 
 have crumbled into dust, our mountain mothers will teach their 
 children to lisp his name with gratitude and love! We are a 
 traditional people, and such a name can never be forgotten. 
 
 But we hope and believe that he has already received a reward 
 prouder than the treasures of the world, and richer than the 
 affections of a grateful populace. If it be true — and who can 
 doubt its truth — that a blissful existence, beyond the grave, is 
 reserved for the redeemed of earth; if, after life's weary pilgrim- 
 age is over, and after they have crossed the dark and turbid 
 stream of death, they are welcomed to green fields and a celestial 
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 when Lis arrival was hailed by the angelic minstrels, and when 
 foremost among the happy throng that welcomed him were those 
 women and children who shared in the relief he conferred on 
 'the people of East Tennessee, but who went before him to the 
 better and heavenly country. What a comfort and joy was it to 
 his great soul to meet these earthly recipients of his bounty, who 
 have cast off their soiled and unseemly garments, and are "clothed 
 upon" with the white and spotless raiment of immortality! We 
 can imagine him conducted, in a triumphal procession, such as 
 earth never saw, into the presence of the heavenly Monarch, and 
 listening to the words of the King: "Come, ye blessed of my 
 father, inherit the kingdom prepared for j^ou from the foundation 
 of the world: for I was an hungered and ye gave me meat; I 
 was thirsty and ye gave me drink ; I was a stranger and ye took 
 me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick and ye visited me; 
 I was in prison and ye came unto me." And then, as with that 
 unaffected modesty which characterized him when upon earth, 
 he made reply: "Lord, when saw T thee an hungered, and fed 
 thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? when saw I thee a stranger 
 and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? or when saw I 
 thee sick or in prison, and came unto thee?" how would all the 
 fleeting and transitory honors which he had enjoyed on earth 
 fade into insignificance before his immortal spirit at the answer- 
 ing words of the King, worth more to him than all else the uni- 
 verse could bestow: "Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye 
 have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have 
 done it unto me." 
 
 Mr. H. Clay Graham spoke as follows : — 
 
 Gentlemen: I look upon Mr. Everett particularly as the sol- 
 dier's friend, and, as I am the only soldier present, it may not be 
 inadmissible, since he is no more, for me to mingle my regret 
 with yours. 'Tis a national calamity. 'Tis a special calamity to 
 East Tennessee. Ko section of country has more reason to be 
 
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 grateful for his services wliile living — none more to lament his 
 death. I have seen some men shot down as near to me as these 
 two gentlemen on my right hand, and others fall nearer me than 
 Mr. Maynard on my left. I have looked with admiration at the 
 course, and with pity at the close of countrymen and comrades 
 before the war and since ; but never have I indulged more pride 
 or experienced more pain than I have realized in contemplating 
 the triumphant life and tranquil death of Hon. Edward Everett. 
 His life has been so full — was so devoted to the best interests of 
 our common country, and so eminently useful to the destitute 
 people of your own State, with the sufferings of whom I have 
 ever shared my largest-hearted sympathies. One point of cha- 
 racter not generally found in men holding such high political posi- 
 tions marked his whole career: honor, probity, candor. I could 
 not help admiring him for this if I would, and would not if I 
 could. As a writer, he was the favorite of my early boyhood; 
 his school-books winning me with their worth, and his poetry 
 enamoring me with its sweetness and sublimity. I remember 
 some of his lines on the Pen, showing his profound enmity against 
 monarchies and his devoted attachment to republics, which I used 
 to declaim at school when a mere child; and one of those stanzas 
 embodies so much power, and pathos, and grandeur, that I still 
 love to repeat it : — 
 
 " 'Tis minu to burl the bolts of latu 
 Which overwhelm the guilty great ; 
 I wield the giant arm that brings 
 Dismay and death on tyrant kings." 
 
 The labors and language of such champions of republicanism 
 advance and establish the ideas of our nationality; and if more 
 of our leading spirits were possessed of the same high-toned 
 patriotism, honor, and integrity, the name of this nation would 
 be more respected and feared among the despotisms of the old 
 world. We should have a government which, how much soever 
 it might be envied or despised across the waters, would not be 
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 molested by any foreign power ; and when your sons, covered 
 with glory, come back to you, and my comrades and I return to 
 our homes, we could all be sheltered by our own vine and fig- 
 tree, and feel more gratitude and resignation than ever to the 
 providence of God, who called Mr. Everett away, and may at 
 any time call us. 
 
 Suggestions were then made upon points incidental to the 
 meeting by Messrs. Maynard and Baxter, which were concurred 
 in, and, on motion of J. M. Meek, Esq., an adjournment was voted. 
 
 SETII J. W. LUCKY, Chmrvum. 
 D. A. Deaderick, Secretary. 
 
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