Tennessee Assurance

In March, 1796, the sheriffs of the territory which is uow Tennessee took a census of their own, aud as there v? ere 60,000 citizens of proper age the territory declared itself a state, proceeded to choose a governor, a congressman and a legislature, which selected two United States senators. Congress, then in session in Philadelphia, had received no information regarding the action in the territory until congressman and senators walked in uninvited and annonnced that a state had been born, had elected its officers, made its laws and was running on schednled time. Cougress was disconcerted and notified the applicants that the sherifFs census was irregular and they must wait at least for an invitation before they proceeded to sit at the federal table. Upon second thought congress decided to be courteous, and on June 1 admitted Temiessee,nearly threemontha af ter she had become a state by her own action. This state, w' ose coming iuto the Union was a littie previous, was the third state in the Union to provide a president for the Union and the first outside the original 13, and with one exception the only state south of the Ohio and the James ever to furnish a president, and she has provided three, more than any other state except New