COUNTIES.  FREE.  SLAVE.  COTTON,
                                             400 lb. bales. 
    Johnson, 3,485 206 0
    Carter, 5,911 353 0
    Washington, 12,671 930 0
    Sullivan, 10,603 1,004 153
    Hancock, 5,447 202 2
    Hawkins, 11,567 1,690 0
    Greene, 16,526 1,093 0
    Cocke, 7,501 719 3
    Sevier, 6,450 403 0
    Jefferson, 11,458 1,628 0
    Granger, 11,170 1,035 1
    Knox, 16,385 2,193 0
    Union, new county,
    Claiborne, 8,610 660 0
    Anderson, 6,391 503 0
    Campbell, 5,651 318 1
    Scott, 1,808 37 0
    Morgan, 3,301 101 9
    Cumberland, new county,
    Roane, 10,525 1,544 121
    Blount, 11,213 1,084 6
    Munroe, 10,623 1,188 0
    McMinn, 12,286 1,568 2,821
    Polk, 5,884 400 29
    Bradley, 11,478 744 1,600
    Meigs, 4,480 395 2
    Hamilton, 9,216 672 0
    Rhea, 3,951 436 0
    Bledsoe, 5,036 827 0
    Sequatche, new county,
    Van Buren, 2,481 175 2
    Grundy, 2,522 236 24
    Marion, 5,718 551 24,413
    Franklin, 10,085 3,623 637
    Lincoln, 17,802 5,621 2,576

The geographical order of the foregoing list of counties is from the extreme north-east—­Johnson—­south-west to Lincoln, on the Alabama line.  I have included a tier of counties the west, which embrace the summits and western slopes of the Cumberland Hills, regarding their physical and political features as more identified with East than Middle Tennessee.  Such are Lincoln, Franklin, Grundy, Van Buren, Cumberland, Morgan and Scott counties.

I estimate the area of this district as about 17,175 square
miles, an extent of territory exceeding the aggregate of the
following States: 

Massachusetts, 7,800 square miles. 
Connecticut, 4,674 square miles. 
Rhode Island, l,306 square miles.
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13,180 square miles.

Yet it is not many months since even this Tennessee region, it was generally feared, would be false to the Union, on account of its attachment to slavery.