{"id":810,"date":"2013-02-20T13:47:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T18:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/?p=810"},"modified":"2013-02-21T09:28:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T14:28:25","slug":"the-mcminn-county-manifesto-1868","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2013\/02\/20\/the-mcminn-county-manifesto-1868\/","title":{"rendered":"The McMinn County Manifesto, 1868"},"content":{"rendered":"

While researching for the Athens Post <\/em>essay for Chronicling America, I came across this little treasure in UT Libraries’ Special Collections<\/a>. The handwritten piece bears the title, “The McMinn Manifesto,” but this might be a little misleading. It is an article written in long-hand by William G. “Parson” Brownlow for publication in his newspaper, Brownlow<\/em>‘s Knoxville Whig, <\/em>June 17, 1868, col.5-6. <\/em><\/a>The note–which is signed \u201cEditor\u201d–includes instructions to the printer to insert the \u201cproceedings entire\u201d at the end of the piece. The \u201cproceedings entire\u201d were a reprint of \u201cA call for a public meeting of the citizens of McMinn County\u201d from the Athens Post,<\/i> October 3, 1862, col.2<\/a>. The meeting\u2019s resolutions (Athens Post<\/i>, October 10, 1862, col.1<\/a>), in which the citizens of McMinn County were urged to pledge their loyalty to the Confederacy, were also printed in Brownlow\u2019s piece.<\/p>\n

Brownlow\u2019s article appears to be a rewrite of a very similar article (of his) published in his Knoxville Tri-weekly Whig and Rebel Ventilator<\/i>, July 26, 1864, col.3<\/a>. Brownlow, a staunch supporter of the Union, used his newspaper to denounce the Confederacy and its supporters. His combative reaction to the Athens Post\u2019s<\/i> articles is typical of his out-spoken editorial style. Brownlow\u2019s 1868 rewrite of his earlier article may have been prompted by his recent visit to Athens, Tenn. The purpose of that visit was to rally support for Ulysses S. Grant\u2019s presidential campaign. He mentions Grant and Colfax at the end of this piece.<\/p>\n

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The article as it appeared in Brownlow’s Knoxville Whig, <\/em>June 17, 1868: \"McMinn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While researching for the Athens Post essay for Chronicling America, I came across this little treasure in UT Libraries’ Special Collections. The handwritten piece bears the title, “The McMinn Manifesto,” but this might be a little misleading. It is an article written in long-hand by William G. “Parson” Brownlow for publication in his newspaper, Brownlow‘s … Continue reading The McMinn County Manifesto, 1868<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe McMinn County Manifesto, 1868 - Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2013\/02\/20\/the-mcminn-county-manifesto-1868\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/\",\"name\":\"Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project\",\"description\":\"A joint effort between the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee State Library and Archives\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2013\/02\/20\/the-mcminn-county-manifesto-1868\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/files\/2013\/02\/McMinn-County-Manifesto.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2013\/02\/20\/the-mcminn-county-manifesto-1868\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2013\/02\/20\/the-mcminn-county-manifesto-1868\/\",\"name\":\"The McMinn County Manifesto, 1868 - Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2013\/02\/20\/the-mcminn-county-manifesto-1868\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-02-20T18:47:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-02-21T14:28:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#\/schema\/person\/c70d25c0274f6b5f51cfdb9ac26b1571\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/2013\/02\/20\/the-mcminn-county-manifesto-1868\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":[\"Person\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#\/schema\/person\/c70d25c0274f6b5f51cfdb9ac26b1571\",\"name\":\"Louisa Trott\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/248de97c24fafb9aaf91f3883154fb4a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Louisa Trott\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/tndp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}