But in these exciting times we must do what we can to check the madness of the people. Do not let yourself suppose, as so many seem to do, that all this excitement at the North is hatred of the South. No such thing. The very same feeling of patriotism which in Lynchburg called six hundred men to arms and equipped them with eighteen thousand dollars, is at the North rallying all to the support of the old and loved Government--no conglomeration of States but the Federal Union. That hates will arise on both sides now, we must expect. War lets loose fearful passions, and I know human nature is alike every where; and judging from what I saw in Virginia, I can readily believe the North will be about as bad.” APPENDIX: NOTE F: Page 101. Colonel David Cummings, of Anderson county, an officer of the Tennessee (Confederate) troops, was conspicuous in preserving peace at the time of the imminent deadly collision between Union men and Secessionists on the principal street of Knoxville. It was he, who with two Union citizens,--Abner Jackson and John Williams--afterwards succeeded by persuasion in halting hundreds of State soldiers on their way from camp to the town with a destructive purpose against Charles Douglass, and so, in preventing a bloody encounter between the soldiers, and Douglass with his friends. It was also Col. Cummings, who on a subsequent day, as the body of the murdered Douglass was borne along the street to its grave, relieved the occasion of its reproach in the eyes of unfriendly observers, by magnanimously joining on horseback the officiating minister in leading the sad procession. APPENDIX: NOTES G AND H: Pages 107 and 115. Delegates to the Union Convention at Knoxville and Greeneville, Tenn., May 30 and June 17, 1861. Names unmarked are of members present only at Knoxville. Names marked * are of those present only at Greeneville. Names marked † are of those present on both occasions. ANDERSON COUNTY. T. Adkins, J. Ayres, H. H. Baker, Lindsey D. Hill, L. Hockworth, Oliver Hoskins, James Ross, Philip Sieber, William Smith, John Black, J. C. Chiles, J. H. Cox, William Cross, J. A. Doughty, Edward Freels, John Freels, W. S. Freels, † L. C. Houk, J. B. Lamar, G. W. Leath, Samuel Moore, L. A. Powell, Grandison Queener, Wm. Reynolds, J. Thompson, P. C. Wallace, John Weaver, W. W. Weaver, A. T. Williams. D. K. Young, S. C. Young. BLEDSOE COUNTY. S. P. Doss, Wm. S. Findlay, M.D., J. W. McReynolds, † J. G. Spears. BLOUNT COUNTY.