Life as It Is: Or Matters and Things in General (The Applachian Echoes)

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Originally published in 1842, John Will M. Breazeale’s Life as It Is is an insightful—and now and then chilling—number of essays on quite a lot of subjects in relation to life in early East Tennessee. Though little is known about the writer, a frontier lawyer and editor of the Tennessee Journal from 1837 to 1838, scholars of the nineteenth-century South, Tennessee historians, and even true crime buffs will find his observations of considerable interest.

The first chapters present a history of Tennessee from its first European exploration through the state’s admission to the Union. Later chapters highlight the state’s unique geographic features, followed by a gruesome account of the murderous rampage of Micajah and Wiley Harp, who terrorized settlers along the line separating eastern Kentucky and Tennessee at the turn of the nineteenth century. Breazeale next offers his thoughts at the practice of political “electioneering,” recounting a fictional canvass in a typical congressional district. Life as It Is concludes with several chapters noting more than a few features of Breazeale’s Tennessee, including Native American “antiquities,” the founding of the state government, and an early religious revival.

Breazeale’s account both complements and corrects Pass judgement on John Haywood’s better-known Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee, revealing the richly varied attitudes of early Tennessee pioneers toward their history, society, politics, and natural environments.

J. W. M. Breazeale used to be a lawyer and editor of the Tennessee Journal from 1837 to 1838.

Jonathan M. Atkins, professor of history at Berry College in Mt. Berry, Georgia, is the writer of a large number of articles and the book Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832–1861.

 


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