Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-09-03
.DAmaGE ROBBERY.
A Voice frem a Tennesseean i'm Exile.

A Voice from a Tennesseean In Exile.
From the Atlanta Constitution. Sept. !,
The following letter speaks on the SUBJ
iect therein alluded to, much better than
we could write. Its earnest and unvar'
nished statement of wrongs is more
potential presentation of the subject than
We could make. We call the attention
Of our Tennessee contemporaries to it:
DALTON, GA, Aug. "a, 1S69.-It is my
desire, as well as great many, may
say, hundreds Of your patrons, to bring
subject before you, and have you to give
it your attention through the columns of
your very valuable journal.
There are many hundreds of good
substantial citizens formerly of Tennes-
see, who are scattered, as it were, to the
four winds of the earth, laboring and
toiling, from the land of orange flowers
on the Gull, to the northern line of the
State of Georgia. These citizens are in
the main, high minded, honorable gems
tlemen, many OF whom were formerly
men of fortune and influence at their
former homes in Tennessee. Why are
they not at their former homes, in the
enjoyment of the fruits Of the labors OF
younger and better days? Why, only
for the fact that they were unfortunate
enough to take sides with their
own section-the South, in the
late rebellion, and being the own
ers of property, they have been
driven from their homes IN
many instances, and suits for damages
have been brought and sustained by ex-
parte trials, and have thus been ruthless
ly and actually robbed of their property,
merely because they had the property,
and for cause of some pretended implica-
ton in the arrest or injury Of those men
who bring such suits. Many cases have
been instituted for damages and sus-
tanned against innocent men, for the acts
of military officers in arresting Union
men, by orders from the general COM
mander of the army of the Confederate
States. Now, think it Of paramount
importance to many Of the citizens of
Georgia, that you write an article upon
this matter, and stir up the journals, par
ticularly of Tennessee, to canvass this
matter of Damage Robbery" of the
good citizens formerly of Tennessee.
The Legislature eff Tennessee will
soon meet, and it will be an able one,
and will be composed of men who will
right all of this unfair and thieving pro-
ceedings of the courts of the former
Brownlow regime. There are now many
children living on bread, from the infer
nal dealings of those would be damaged"
reprObates. 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 followers, when they thought there
was no danger.
/ am actually astonished that no jour-
nal has seen proper to ventilate these
things l think if it was agitated the
Legislature of Tennessee might now leg
islate so that we might be enabled to
have prima facie evidence at least, con-
sidered in our defense of suits. "The
truth not half told"