Returning Reason and Loyalty.
WASHINGTON, March 20.
The citizens of Gallatin, Tenn., which has been decidedly disloyal, met in a town meeting recently and were addressed by Baillie Poyton, voted a petition for a Post Office there, and expressed their willingness to return to their allegiance. A post office is to be established there in a few days.
John Lellyett has been appointed Postmaster at Nashville. He wrote some of the best articles against secession during the agitation of that subject in Tennessee.
A Special agent of the Post Office Department, acting on the Tennessee and Kentucky borders, reports as follows:
“It is gratifying wherever I have been to find that there is a strong desire for re-establishing the mails, and a willingness among the people to return to their allegiance.”
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 22, 1862, p. 1
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