Raynors HCA 2015-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/19/2015
“CONVENTION SECESSION” 3” x 4-1/2”, printed both sides with small paper loss at bottom right. On the face are familiar secession advocates, Marcus J. Wright, Humphrey R. Bate, D.M. Currin, and Solon Borland. On the reverse, an illustrated cotton bale with “The South, and Our Firesides.” Though Tennessee was much divided in her sentiment she was only slowly growing in the spirit of secession. At the election in this state, held February 9, 1861, to pass upon the question of secession and to determine the question of "Convention" or "No Convention" for that purpose, the convention was defeated by a vote of 91,803 to 24,749, and in Memphis, where secession had seemed assured. All those names were in favor of the Secession Convention and later served ijn the Confederacy. Humphrey R. Bate, later a captain in TN 2nd Infantry; Marcus Wright, later a Confederate general in the American Civil War; Solon Borlan, as a newspaperman, soldier, diplomat, Democratic United States Senator from the State of Arkansas and a Confederate officer during the American Civil War; D.M. Currin, served in the First and Second Confederate Congresses from 1862 until his death in Richmond, Virginia, March 25, 1864.
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