 "On the corner across from the newspaper office, a crowd had gathered around a bagpipe player playing "Yankee Doodle", after which ex-mayor John Hugh Smith gave a speech that was received with loud cheers.In a letter to Democratic senator Andrew Johnson, the publisher of the Clarksville (TN) "Jeffersonian", C.O.Faxon, surmised that the margin by which the "No Convention" vote won would have been even greater, had Union men not been afraid that if a State Convention were not called then, then Isham Harris would have again called for a State Convention when more state legislators were "infected with the secession epidemic" [...] " Gov Harris is Check mated [sic].