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Perkins talks of a resolution offered in the House to sell the portraits of Thomas and Governor William Brownlow. He notes that the feeling of this Legislature and of a large majority of the people of this State is to let bygones be bygones and to labor in the future for the restoration of Peace, Kind feeling and Confidence and but for a few bad men who are ever ready to pervert and misrepresent, that feeling would soon permeate the whole Country.

Scope and Contents Note Thurston encloses an article from a Nashville paper on the proposal to remove Thomas's portrait from the state capitol. He states that there is a general overturning of old landmarks here however & a tendency to extreme & partisan measures & it is possible that in time they do so some mean thing in relation to your picture. He also notes, however, that these matters would require the prompt intervention of your friends & which I assure you...

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Thurston speaks of W. O. N. Perkins, saying that he is said to have been a Union man before the war but like most of his neighbors about Franklin Tenn, has not had much unionism to boast of since that time. He also assures Thomas that he does not think that the legislature will vote to remove his portrait.