They don’t seem to be . . .

. . . able to get a quorum of the Tennessee Legislature at Memphis.  This is all very well.  There has been a great deal too much rebel legislation in that State already, and we don’t want to see any more law making there until there shall be a loyal body to do the work. – {Lou. Journal.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 2