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Nothing now remained to complete Tennessee’s absorption into the Confederacy but the election of representatives to the Confederate Congress. In October, the Legislature selected Langdon C. Haynes and Gustavus Henry as Confederate Senators. Haynes was a distinguished Democrat of East Tennessee, while Henry was a Whig. Representatives to the Lower House were chosen by a vote of the people. Here again the Whigs and Democrats were equally represented.

ssss1 Cox: Three Decades of Federal Legislation.

ssss1 Acts of Tennessee, Extra Session, 1861, pp. 1 to 13.

ssss1 Acts of Tennessee, Extra Session, 1861, p. 14.

ssss1 Acts of Tennessee, 2d Extra Session, 1861, pp. 1 to 11.

ssss1 Acts of Tennessee, 2d Extra Session, 1861, p. 13.

ssss1 Acts of Tennessee, 2d Extra Session, 1861, p. 19.

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Just as radical differences of opinion have existed as to the parties responsible for the whole secession movement, so the action of Tennessee has been variously interpreted. A number of writers have contended that the majority of her citizens were never in favor of secession, and it was only a coup d’état of Governor Harris that carried the State into the Confederacy. This view is a survival of the opinion once so widely prevalent in the North that the Civil War was the result of a conspiracy of a few ambitious Southern politicians, who tricked the mass of the Southern people into a war which never had their genuine approval.