Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-02
MISSOURI.

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Correspondence Of the Knoxville Commercial.
LEXINGTON, No, January 10th, 1857
| am in receipt of more than dozen let
tiers from persons in East Tennessee. West
Virginia and North Carolina, asking me TO
write them and give them advice as TO
what part OF Missouri they had best settle
IN, or to what other State or territory /
would advise them to go 10, as they have
made up their minds to leave their native
homes.
Now, / have thought the matter over, and
conclude the best way is TO answer all these
letters through your paper, in order that all
persons in that part Of Tennessee, and the
adjoining States may have the benefit of
my views.
In the first place, Missouri is. ofail States
on earth, the worst place for any man togo
to now. Hundreds of families who have
come into Missouri the past summer and
fall have sadly repented it, Missouri
is no place for any man from the Southern,
or lately rebellious States, to come to.
Anarchy reigns from one end of the State
to the other, and will for years to come. All
men who were in the Confederate armies
are entirely DISTINGUISHED forever; and this,
any one can readily see, includes the mass,
or four-ffths of her population. Then ali
ministers and all school teachers are re-
stricted in their offices until the worst
possible feeling exists everywhere. The
Governor (Fleteher) keeps State troops in
every county and town to enforce the re-
ligious views of one party and to suppress
those of the other. Murders and assassina-
tons occur daily, houses are burned, women.
and even girls ravished almost daily in
some of the principal towns. There is
literally no law except the law of force of
the military, and the military NOT being of
the regular army, but of the worst possible
class of State militia, you can readily infer
what mBst be their daily practices.
For Gods sake let no man, woman or
child think of coming to Missouri. Bet
ter stay where you are aud live on the Der
ries Of the forests than TO come to any part
Of Missouri, unless you are rich enough to
live in St. Louis, and even in the city of
st. Louis, if you are not smart, the police,
and the so-called police commissioner"
will rob you Of everything you have in
few weeks.
As to Kansas it is not much better, al
though it is preferable to Missouri Ar
kansas Is stili better than even Kansas; but
| would not advise men with families to
go to either just now.
Ny advice to all is to remain where you
are, and go to work with a will and do the
best you can. / advise every one to make
friends with his neighbors at once, and on
any terms he can. This is not the time to
be roaming about. War and strife in the
United States is not yet over Years of
war are yet in the immediate future not
between South and North, but all over the
country; by factions for few years, and
then a grand uniting of factions to form
only two great parties or forces, when we
win probably settle the destiny Of Ameri-
cans. Pending this, let all people remain
where they are, and in the occupation they
are accustomed to; and, as far as possible
let them be vigilant 10 ''let those who make
the wars, be:the only men to fight
VIM. B. CARTER.