Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-26

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| The ssJugde Lyonn Fabrication
| The "Judge LYoN'' letter has become famous.
purports to have been first published in the Wac
! (Texas) Gazette and to have been addressed to
friend in Texas. The following is the letter wit
| the introduction:
THE EFFECT OF SEcEssIoN.-The following lette
from Judge Robert Lyon, of Abbeville Court-House
| South Carolina, speaks for itself:
ABBEvIILE C. e., Jan. oath, 1861.
DEAR SIR II desire you to procure for me ant
send by mail Texas Almanac. Six months slnc'
felt perfectly willing to remain in South Carolina
but can remain here no longer. At the election o
Lincoln we all felt that we must resist. In thi
move placed myself amongst the foremost and an
yet determined to resist him to the bitter end.
had my misgivings at first at the idea of separatl
secession, but thought it would be for short time
and at small COST In this matter, together witt
thousands of other Carolinians, we have been mis-
taken. Everything is in the widest commotion Ny
bottom land on Long Cane, for which could have
gotten thirty dollars per acre, cannot sell at any
price. All our young men nearly are in and around
Charieston. Thither we have sent many hundreds
of our negroes Il have sent twenty TO work. Crops
were very short last year, and il does now seem
that nothing will be planted this coming season. AL
excited tc the hgest pitch, and not thought OF
the future is taken. Messengers are running here
and there with and without the Governors orders.
We have no money. forced tax is le-
Wed upon every man. have furnished the last
surplus dollar have. | had about twenty
thousand dollars in bank, At first gave check
for ten thousand, then five thousand, then the re-
mainder. 1t is now estimated that we are spending
twenty-five thousand dollars per day, and no pros
pect of getting over these times. 1t was our full
understanding when we went out Of the Union that
we would have a new government of all the South
ern States Our object was 70 bring about celli-
sion with the authorities at Washington, which all
thought would make all join US. Although we
have such collisions in every way we have not Jet
got fight. and the prospect is very distant.
l want the Almanac, in order to see from 1t what
part of Texas may suit me. l want to raise cotton
principally, but must raise corn to do me. viii
need about thousand acres of good land Ny
force is increasing, many young negroes are coming
on. can send to the field about 60 big and little.
I ahall make no crop here this year. shall start
my negroes from here to John Brownlee. atShrieve-
port, about the first of April will leave my land
here to grow up in pines. When we all get to
Shreveport John Brownlee says he will go with me
all over Texas. / cannot live here and must get
away. Many are leaving now, at least lo,VoO ne.
groes have left already and before long onethird of
the wealth of South Carolina will be in the West
desire you to look around and help me to get a
home. As ever, yours, ROBERT LYON.
The Richmond Fhig of the 22d contains the fol-
lowing notice of this letter:
We have already published the declaration Of
South Carolina papers, that the letter purportng to
have been written by "Judge Robert Lyon, of Abbe-
vile Court House, S. G." is a fabrication; that
there is no such man and that the statements of
the letter are inventions and calumnies. Neverthe-
less at the request of the gentleman to whom it is
addressed, we give place to the following note
ksBEvIILE, C. H, S. c., March 18th, 1861.
Col H. G. CABELL-Mv Dear Sir The enclosed
article appeared in the Independent Press Of this
village, in regard to the forged letter purpGrnng 70
have been written by one Judge Robert Lyon, OF
this district The whole thing is a base calumny-
no such man ever lived in this county, and all the
statements are false.
Many gentlemen here unite in the request thatyo
will have the article publsed in the Richmond pa
pers
Everybody here knows "Veritas," doctor Isaac
Branch,) and that everything he has said is true.
Truly and sincerely your friend. S. MCGOWAN.
To. a. G. Cabell, Esq, Richmond, Va.
The following is the denial of "Veritas referred
to above:
Mr.. Editor The article which appears above pur-
ports to have been written By Judge Robert Lyon,
of this village and part and parcel of the system
of lying which is hsbituay practised upon our be-
loved State and especially since she has so nooy Sc
ceded from the General Government.
Every one about here knows that the letter is q
tissue of lies from beginning to end. In the first
place no such man as Judge Lyon ever lived in
this place. In this District, or IN the state OF south
Carolina.
In the next place, there is no such distress pre-
vailing here or anywhere in the State as the wri>
ter refers to.
In the third place. the writer lies. for not solits-
ry negro has been sent from this District to aid in
the work going on in Charleston very few, per-
haps dozen, have gone, voluntarily, as body SER
wants to some of our officers.
In the fourth place: the writer les for not one
solitary dollar has been levied on an indIdidua nor
one dime taken from the pocket Of any man without
his consent.
In the fifth place. the writer lies, for money has
been much more plenty since the State seeded
than before and as an evidence, not Bond Of the
have generally commanded handsome premium,
whilst the Bonds of the Northern Confederacy have
gone begging.
In the sixth place. the author lies, for if there is
a single individual in Abbeville District who is DIS
satisfied with the step the State has taken, don't
know where to find him. The whole letter is, we
repeat, lying slandering document.
The Abbeville Is. C.) Independent Press, in pub
fishing the article Of "Veritas," says:
We heartily endorse the expressions Of "Verltasr"
as being true in every respect, and would further
say that numbers have already emigrated from
North Carolina to South Carolina and other of the
Confederate States and should North Carolina and
Virginia fail secede from the general government,
we have every assurance that thousands OF the
shareholders In these States viii flock to the States
of the Southern Confederacy. We do not know OF
q single instance of slaves being taken out of the
Southern Confederacy nor do we believe there is a
STAKEHOLDER in the Confederacy who could be induc-
ed to do so foolish thing.
A O1-rrp People - HAMMERS, Journal diaeussng