Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-09-11
DAMAGE noBBEnRt.-
A Voice from q Tenncssecan I'm Exile

Voice from q Tcnncssecan I'm Exile.
From the Atlanta Constitution, sept.L.
The following letter speaks on the
subject therein alluded to, much bet
ter than we could write. Its earnest
ndunvarnished statement of wrongs
is a more potential presentation OF
the subject than we could make
We call the attention of our Tcnnes-
see contemporaries to it:
DALTON, Ca, Aug. "a, 1S69.---It Is
my desire, as well as q great many, /
may say, hundreds of your patrons,
to bring a subject before you, and
have you to give 1t your attention
through the columns of your very
valuable Journal.
There are many hundred of good
substantial citizens formerly of Ten
nessce, who are scattered, as it were,
to the four winds of the earth, labor
ing and toiling, from the land of
orange flowers on the Gulf, to the
northern line of the State of Georgia.
These citizens are In the main, high
minded, honorable gentlemen, many
of whom were formerly men of for
tune and influence at their former
homes in Tennessee. Why are they
not at their former homes, I'm the en-
pyment of the fruits of the labors of
younger and better days? Why,
only for the fact that they were UNI
fortunate enough to take sides with
their own section-the South, I'm the
late rebellion, and being the owners
OF property, they have been driven
from their homes in many instances,
and suits for DAMAGES have been
brought and sustained by exparte
trials, and have thus been ruthlessly
and actually robbed of their property,
merely because they had the proper
ty, and for cause of some pretended
implication In the arrest or injury of
those men who bring such SUITS
Many cases have been instituted for
damages and sustained against inno-
cent men, for the acts ofmilitary Off
GERS in arresting Union men, by orders
from the general commander of the
army of the Confederate States
Now, l think 1t of paramount impor-
lance to many of the citizens of
Georgia, that you write an article
upon this matter, and stir up the
journals, particularly of Tennessee,
to canvass this matter of "Damge
ROBBERY" of the good citizens former
ly of Tennessee.
The Legislature of Tennessee will
soon meet, and 1t will be an able one,
and will be composed of men who
will right all of this unfair and thiev-
ing proceedings of the courts of the
former Brownlow regime. There are
now many children living on bread,
from the Internal dealings Of those
"would be damaged" repobates. We
want you to agitate the subject so
that the journals of Tennessee will
gather the matter up and put it
through.
You will be repaid for it by the
many refugee citizens and children of
Georgia who are now suffering for the
want of the honest earnings of their
parents, which have been robbed from
them by bad men, that lay in caves
and hollow logs during the war, and
probably got promoted to camp fol-
lowers, when they thought there was
no danger.
1 am actually astonished that no
Journal has seen proper to ventilate
these things. think If it was agi-
tated the Legislature of Tennessee
might now legislate SO that we might
be enabled to have print fdcie evil
dence at least, considered i'm our de-
Tense of suits. "The truth not half
told.D