 When Nelson moved to Jonesborough in 1840, Haynes followed him to continue his study of law.He was admitted to the bar in late 1840.While still in Elizabethton, Haynes began to quarrel with William G. "Parson" Brownlow, a former circuit rider who had left the ministry in 1839 to publish and edit the "Whig", a radically pro-Whig newspaper (he had been encouraged to establish this paper by Haynes's mentor, Nelson).