The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-21
A MonstrousIfe.

The following letter showing the Effects
Of Secession has gone the rounds of the whole
Black Republican press of the North 1t is
fair specimen of the wholesale lying which
has been the chief weapon hitherto used by
the organs OF the Administration against the
people of the South:
LETTER PROM JUDGE LYON, OF South CAROLINA,
FRIEND ~ TEXAS.
from the Waco (Texasl Gazette.1
The following letter from Judge Robert Lyon,
Of Abbeville Court House. South Carolina, speaks
for itself:
"ABBRvILLB G. H., Jan. 81, 1851.
"DEAR SIR: desire You to procure for me and
send by mail Texas almanac. Six months since
/ felt perfectly willing to remain in South Caro-
election Of Lincoln ali felt that we must resist
most aod am yet determined to resist him to the
idea Of separate secession, but thought it would
be but for a short time, and at small cost In this
Carolinians, We have been mistaken. Everything
i in the widest eommotion, My bottom land on
acre, now cannot sell at any price. All our
yonag men nearly are In and around Charleston.
Thhsr have sent hundreds Of
seem a.. nothing VII Be- planted His
est pitch, and not thought Of the future is
taken. Messengers, are running here and
We have money. forced tax is levied upon
every man. / have furnished the last surplus
dollar have. had about 1927 600 in Bank. At
first gave check for ten thousand, then five
thousand, then the remainder. 1t is now esti
mated that we are spending S25. 600 per day, and
NO prospect Of getting over these times It was
our full understanding when We went out of the
Union that we would have new Government of
all the Southern States. Our object was to bring
aboat q collision with the authorities at Wash
tngton, which all thought would make all join
Although we have sought such collision in every
Is very distant. l want the almanac in order to
want to raise cotton principally, but must raise
corn to do me will need about thousand acres
youss ussross coming send tn I Thy
Held about sixty five, big and little. shall make
from here to John Broynlee, at Shreveport, about
the first Of April. | will leave my lands here to
grow up in pines When we all'get to Shreveport
John Brownleo says he will 20 with me all over
Texas. cannot live here and must get away
Many are leaving now; at least ten Thousand ne.
" the wealth of South Carolina will be in the
West; desire you to look ardlnd and help me
get o home. As ever yours, ROBERT LYON"
Now mark how this wicked lie is exploded
in each and every particular!
DIR. ISAAC BRANCH, one of the most respect
able citizens of Abbeville, writes to the New
York Herald concerning the above letter, as
follows:
.'This article is supremacy ridiculous, and is
nothing but tissue OF falsehoods from beginning
at is a lie, in the first place, because we have
never had Judge Robert Lyon at Abbeville
C Court House, IN Abbeville district, nor in the
at is lie, in the second place, because there is
positively NO such distress the writer speaks of
In the State OF South Carolina.
at is lie, In the third place, because not a
solitary negro has been sent from Abbeville Court
Charleston. few, perhaps a dozen, have vol.
untarily gone as body servants for some OF our
"It is lie, in the fourth place, because not one
dollar has been levied on any individual, nor
dime taken from the pocket of any man, without
at is lie, in the fifth place. because money has
been much more plenty since the State seeded
Of the bonds Of the Confederate States have been
sold below par, but, on the other hand, they have
i astonishing that slandering, fictitious, lying
letteI-writers cannot let us alone. We are out OF
Black Republican Administration will make no
attempt to ooerce, We will trade as formerly with
tho North but let coercion commence, and we
Will FIRST pay our debts, and then bid long adieu
to our Northern neighbors.
, AS am personally known to fifty, perhaps one
hundred New York merchants, l win subscribe
my own name to this article.
''IsAAo BRANCH, M. D."
We learn from Col. H. G. CABKLL, Of this
city, that DIR. 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 preparatio more active for the crops than
usual. Since his return, Col. CABELL has re-
ceived a letter from his overseer, confirming
In regard to his own plantation-the results
Of his personal observation. We ask the Vir-
ginia 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 pacific pro-
misses when it regards the Seeded Confederacy
a. an enemy, and holds that it is right. accord
ing to the laws Of war well as of Black Re-
publican morality, to gain an advantage over
an enemy by fraud, deception lying, false pre-.
fences, or any means in their powerf