[ovrtaxt]

Which is historical proof that when people want the Federal government to come to the rescue, the control freaks are happy to oblige.

They never explain the fine print though. That comes later.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

It was not a choice between federal government and no federal government. It was a choice between a federal government in Washington who the people rightly believed was the best the world had ever seen or a federal government for the slaveholders in Richmond which only provided extortion, murder and general lawlessness.

And given the large number of East Tennesseans who volunteered for the Union army, the people did more than just wait for liberation.