The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-08-28
DESPoTI>N IN TENNESSEE.


correspondent from Louisville, gives below
some OF the milder forms of despctism as mani
tested in Tennessee. Those who would abandon
the victims of that despotSm 10 their fate de-.
serve and will receive the execrations Of civil.
lied humanity.
The hand OF usnrpiug tyranny in Tennessee
grows iutoeraby heayv-so much SO, that the
bette. classes, whose want Of stamina has made
them quasi Disuu'oni>. =. are >'c1eaed and ap-
pailed. Proscriptse iury : u pounded in its
thirst for lis victims You have heard that
Judge Ca;ron was xpatfated from the land of
Old Hickory, who appointed him 10 the Supreme
Berch lie has ta-en refuge in Louisville
"h.th ) Loar of - uge or many vfo fee
out 0i Soiom. | leasn fro II highly credible
sources, 'hat hali Go -en so OF orders for ar
TESTS nave reached Nashville a9d that one of
them : for the veuocab'e Judge. Ii came too
late. Cu'on me1 who leave Nashville on bust
ness for tbs pace, are REGARDED with suspicion
and their frtuds iremble for them lest they
should be arr sled on taeir re.urp. If anvthiug
is earned at Washington OF The movements cou-
tenplatcd or made by the Ricnmond pirates. or
10y those under Pillow IN West Tennessee and
Zoco tfer in Fast Tennessee tire home pumps of
the Rebels at Nashville suspec; Their loya feloa
citizens. Beside p, z constantly harrassed BIZ
danger from these susp;c o2s, and the i eGdlings
Of the carpet blTdirj :, lied Committee OF
Public Safety" Union men are ma ked sor pro-
sc.iptiou iii the ayoeations and traiilc OF lie
They are spotted" 10 use the sisng of pirate
pGTlance.
To-day, the Reveuue Collector OF Davidson
County passed through this city on his way
North. He is young gentleman. born and
Erpd m NJ. .ln al IL ,otf,,.a
at the County election over several competitors,
simply through personal popularity. Being
s.T'ctly a business man, lie has not had mach to
say OF political matters But that little has ever
been loyal 10 the Constitution he took an oath
TO support. He would not belch ont treason at
tie street-cOrners, other officers do who
swore 10 support the same sacred instrument.
This was excuse enough for some to seek his
office, as David sought Urah's wife, and persecu-
ton was commenced. After various sittings.
the Committee OF Safety issued fiat for his
banishUent; but the Secretary of that nst,u-
ton, who was once "a well behaved gentlemen,
and cannot forget his instincts, refused TO serve
the paper. But the Union COilecso', weary OF
an existence at the mercy OF ortlaws arranged
his business, gathered together his interesting
family OF three tender little girls, and taxing his
wife upon his arm-who was also born and reared
In Neutrality-suspicious. OF the Gust OF his feet
against the oppresso7s, and left
While sitting at dinner in one OF the Louis
vile hotels to-day, a beautiful yOIng lady was
pointed out to me as anolncr victim OF Reoel in.
| tolerance. On inquiry, l learned that she was
not OrCe ed by a committee 20 leave the State,
but was SO anCyed by that private prescription
which is used in all the ramfieations OF society
By Secessionists, that she was compelled to
abandon good school which she taught in vii
| lare nea~ Nashville. Something has been coir Q
the rounds of the papers about Union flag kept
up in Nashville by Mrs. Robert II. McEwen, a
noble old lady, whose deeds of philanthropy a.e
| a crown Of honor 10 the city in which she lives
The Stars aud Stripes floated over her resiGcuce
! and were kissed by the loyal breezes which ~.
ranny could lot bind, long after the reign of an
archv and iasehood was established, apd il wa
! thought even hcnds lncarEate would not modest
! flag. Bnt not long since an encampmcnt OF sol
dieGs were so located thai ia passing to camp
| from the city they went regularly by the house
| of Mrs. McEwen. They could not curb til,
| beastly impulses OF Secession within them, ever
! to oblige her who has for 50 many years been
the nursing mother OF l0rIOrn orphanage, but re
ved and sDeered, wagsiug their heads, as III,
| dirty rabble did around the Saviour's cross OF
/ Calvary. Fearing the brUtes might mob her, tn,
good old lady was compelled at length to yiel(
| and take down the last banner Of liberty in th,
once proud, loyal City o! Rocks. As auothe
mark of Secession caIlantry. learn that ma,
of Tennessee, who is now in the Virginia Kebe
army as commissioned officer refused to pa,
the tuition OF his children when the Oi was pre-
sented, because the lady teacher Union