Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1861-03-29

start my negroes from here to John Brown
lee, at Shreveport, about the first of April
L 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 ten thousand negroes have left .al-
ready, and before long one third of the
wealth of South Carolina will be in the
West. desire you to look around and
help me get home."
AS ever yours,
ROBERT LYON.
Now mark how this wicked lie is explo-
ded in each and every particular
DR.. ISAAC BRANCH, Ole OF the most res
pectable citizens OF Abbeville, writes to
the New York Herald concerning the
above letter, as follows:
''Ihis article is supremely ridiculous,
and is nothing but tissue of talsehood
from beginning to end.
''lt is a lie, in the first place, because
we never had Judge Robert Lyon at Alb
bevllle Courthouse, in Abbeville district
nor IN the State of South Carolina.
"lt is a lie, in the second place, because
there IS positively no such distress as the
writer speaks of in the State Of South
Carolina
st is lie,in the third place, because not
solitary negro has been sent from Abbe-
vile Court House, or from the district, to
aid IN the work at Charleston. A few,
perhaps dozen, have voluntarily gone as
body servants for some Of our officers.
cit is a lie, in the fourth place, because
not one dollar has been levied on any in
dividual, nor dime taken from the pock-
ct Of any man without his voluntary con-
sent.
''It is a lie, in the fifth place, because
money has been much more plenty since
the State seeded than before and as an
evidence of it not dollar Of the bonds OF
the Confederate States have been sold be-
low par, but on the other hand, they have
generally commanded handsome premi~
un. Itis astonishing that slandering, tic>
tious, lying, letter-writers cannot let lis
alone. We are out OF the Union, and in>
tend to remain out, and if Black Repub~
.ican Administration will make no at
tempt to coerce, we will trade as formerly
with the North but coercion commence,
and we will first pay our debts, and then
bid a long adieu to our Northern neish-
bors. aF
Gas [ am personally known to fifty,
perhaps one hundred New York mer-
chants, will subscribe my own name to
this article.
"IsAAc BRANCH, NJ. D.
We learn from Col. II. G. CABELL, of
this city, that DR.. BRANCH is a gentleman
Of high responsibility. and in addition
that he Col. Cabell, has recently visited
Abbeville, and that business is better
there than here, and preparations more ac-
lively tor the crops than usual. Since his
return Col. CABELL has received a letter
from his overseer, confrming-in regard
to his own p,antation-the results OF his
personal. al.observation. We ask the Virgin>
ia public what confidence can they place
in Government, whose organs bolster up
its cause by such abominable inventions,
and what faith can they repose in its pa
cifc promises when it regards the Seeded
Confederacy as ali enemy, and holds that
is right, according to the laws OF war as
well as Black Republican morality, to
gain an advantage over an enemy by fraud,
deception, lying, false pretences, or any
means in their power?