To the citizens of the counties of Stewart, Montgomery, Robertson, Sumner, Smith, Overton, Jackson and Macon

Single-page address by Judge J. O. Shackleford to the citizens of counties in the northern area of Middle Tennessee, announcing his appointment by Governor Brownlow as Chancellor of the district's chancery courts. Also discusses the upcoming convention to officially abolish slavery in the state and declare "the League made by the State of Tennessee with the so-called Confederate States null and void." "I am a native-born Tennessean, was a slave-holder, have the same interest that you have in the prosperity of the State, I ask you as citizens, as freemen, looking to the future prosperity of the country, to come forward and aid in reorganizing the State."

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