The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-05
Troubles OF Union Men in Kentucky and

Troubles Of Union Men in Kentucky and
Tennessee.
FAMILIES DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES.
The Louisville, (Ky.) Journal says
eve stated short time ago that
two young men, named Busby and
Harp, arrived in this city from Hick.
man county, Kentucky, having been
driven from their homes by the seces-
sionists of Southern Kentucky and
Tennessee. Three large families, num-
bering fully twenty-five souls, arrived
from the same vicinity yesterday, and
stopped at the Oyler House, on Market
street. The heads of the families are
John Bowsell, John Busby and VIM.
Harp. Their condition is really de-
plorable. They were forced to leave
their farms at few hours notice,
leaving their crops and household goods
at the mercy Of the heartless rebels.
They travelled with the aged and infrm
and youthful and tender members of
their families from Hickman county in
Wagons, and encountered many hard
ships. They inform us that fully fifty
families i'm Hickman and Ballard
counties have been forced to leave their
homes and to abandon their crops and
nearly all they possessed in the world,
their offense being that they entertained
Union sentiments"
TENNESSEE THREATENING KENTUCKY.
A letter from Georgetown, KY, dated
August l9, says: ''ai's
"To-day, being our regular county
Court day, was selected by Col. Roger
w. Hanson as an appropriate occasion
for making a very infammatory and
traitorous speech. His object was to
stir up a hellish spirit Of war. He
began with an attack upon the camp
in Garrard county. He declared that,
if those troops are not disbanded in
thirty days, they will be put down at
the point of the bayonet. He said he
saw Gov. Harris, of Tennessee, few
days ago, and that Harris declared that
he should consider it violation of
Kentucky neutrality, and that Kentucky
would have to meet $4,000 Tennessee
troops in battle array, if those camps
were not speedily vacated. Thirty
days are given to you, Union men of
Kentucky; use those thirty days to a
good advantage, or a civil war will
confront US with all its horrors" -
HUNTED MEN TURNING WARRIORS.
A citizen of DanviIle, Kentucky,
makes the following statement:
"On Monday, August 10, two hun
dred and forty fugitives from East
Tennessee, men driven from their
homes, were fed in the Seminary yard
in that town. Some of them were
elderly men and some young, and all
had been compelled to abandon their
families and were i'll clad, almost bare
foot, weary and hungry. Their situation
was indeed deplorable. Several hun
dred more were expected to arrive
yesterday. The whole of the two
hundred and forty fugitives enlisted in
the United States service at Camp
Robinson"
BRECKENRIDGE BUSY.
The transportation of number of
guns, intended for the loyal Kentucky
troops through the town of Lexington,
Kentucky, created disturbance. The
Louisville Journal says:
1--WE hear, that, when it was ascer-
tanned that the guns were coming,
John G. Breckenridge hustled about,
arousing his secessionists to resist their
passage. At the same time armed aid
was summoned from Harrison and
Scott. In the meanwhile DR.. Dudley
mustered two companies of the Home
Guard to sustain the Government.
There was very fair prospect of a
collision, but the sudden and very i'm
posing appearance of the cavalry from
Camp Robinson put an end at once to
all danger of breach of the peace.
All honor to the gallant Union men of
Lexington"