The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-09-13
EAST TENNESSEE.
HORRIBLE PROSECUTIONS OF THE UNION yEN

H"'"ADA1 FERSECUTIONS OF THE UNION HEN.
From the Louisville Journal.
DEsPoTIsM AT NASHVILLE.
Nobody is now permitted to come from
NashViile without getting his character
vouched for, making oath to say nothing
detrimental to the Southern Confederacy,
and obtaining passport.
Persons living Immediately around Nash
vile cannot 60 into the city on business of
any kind and return, without passports.
Residents of Nashville cannot, without
passports, 60 out of the city limits-cannot
even cross the bridge.
Our secessionists talk about restraints
and cOnstraints in Louisville. What do
they think Of Nashville and all the other
cities and towns of the Southern Coincide
racy?
| Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Gazette.
CAMP ROBINSON, KY, Aug. %.
have just arrived here from Morgan
county, East Tennessee. l left there on the
10Th. Before my departure the secession.
lists had commenced their depredations, and
were ravaging the counties of Scott, Roane
and AM erson. Persons and property were
alike attacked. In Anderson county thew
have taken from the Union men every spe.
cies of property that they could lay their
hands on, and also killed several persons.
In Scott county they have taken possession
OF Huntsville, the county seat, and robbed
the stores. In Morgan county they have
perpetrated acts of similar character, yet
still more atrocious. Union men have been
shot from the woods, stores have been COM
pletely cleared OF their contents, and worse
than all, worthy and wealthy Union lady
was whipped most cruelty by these miss
creants, after they had stripped her house of
all its furniture and all the provisions they
could find.
All the Union men of East Tennessee
who could get away have forsaken their
homes. Old and young have fled alike, a
great proportion of them hurrying off with
out waiting to collect any of their goods,
without money, and in many cases but
scantly clothed. Some of them have been
able to cross over into Kentucky, but the
remainder are still concealed 10 the noun
talns hoping to elude the rebel pckets, and
| join their friends there.
When l left home, some twelve hundred
secessionsts, on horseback, were rayagiDg
the counties of Scott and Morgan, accomJ
panied by two hundred we'll armed negroes.
Before this they have doubtless done an in
calculable amount of mischief. VIII not
the Government, without delay, send aid to
our unhappy State?
From the Cincinnati Commercial. Goth.
THE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN EAST TEN
NEssEE.
Mr.. w. B. Carter, of East Tennessee. is
now in the city. He is gentleman of high
standing, who mas been lifelong resident
of Eas. Tennessee. His father also was a
Tennesseean. He is a STAKEHOLDER and
identified with the South by every social
and material tie that binds a man to his
home and for no crime but that of loving
his country, and unalterabe attachment to
the Union of these States, he is an exile.
He has refused to be wheedled or driven
into the South Carolina conspiracy, and is
therefore driven from his native State by
the desperadoes who own the chief conspir,
ators at Richmond as their masters.
The account which he gives of the con-
dition Of the people of Eastern Tennessee,
is heart rendiDg. The exIes from that por-
tion OF that State number thousands and
there are hundreds now being hunted by
the secessiOnists like wild beasts in the
mountains. History records no persecution
of people more remorseless and appalling.
There is literally reign of terror among
those who are unwilling to give up their
country and submit to the destruction of
the Union and the loss of their liberties.
They have felt, and with reason, that
| NH no I1oi0n
liberty would be sacrificed to des-
potism as intolerant, cruel and desola-
ting, as any that has ever been formed
when bloody treason fourished over
the ruins OF a nation. Mr.. Garter
knows personally hundreds of cases in
which citizens have been compelled to fly
from the hordes of min;ons of the secession
conspirators. Many of his neighbors have
been reduced from affluence to beggary by
this persecution. They have been COM
PEELED to leave their families, and all they
had in the world, and fly in the night to the
mountains, to save their lives. The alter,
native-that of volunteering to fight against
their country--tbey were too patriotic to
regard as possible. i" Camp Dick Robin
son." in Garrard county, Kentucky, has
oecu anu 10 u camp VI IcluSe tut tntlr cA-
lies. MIR. Garter is personally we'll ac-
quainted with men lately of property
and distinguished social position in
Tennessee, who are now in that camp, hav>
ing left their families and farms to the mercy
of their enemies, and escaped by mountain
paths. Some of them walked fifty miles a
day over the mountains and through laurel
thickets, thus evading the secessionists sta
toned at the passes. There were six hum
dred Tennesseeans at Camp Dick Robinson,
and nine hundred at Barboursville-all mus.
tered into the service of the United States:
The nine hundred collected at Barbours-
vile, are under the command of Lieut..
S. B. Carter, of the United States Navy,
Tennesseean, and brother of the gentleman
who gives III. the information. They are
expected at the camp in Gerrard county
to day. They will swell the number in
camp to four thousani, and if the Kentucky
secessionists will have war, the number
will soon be near twenty thousand. 1t may
be thought that Mr.. Carriers report of the
condition of affairs in this State is highly