The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-06-16
THE BARRENs.
THE BAKRENS.-
why--p--sIeo or Maury are not Al.
lowe to Hunt In Lawrence.

| HENRYvILLE, TENN, May 16, 1870.
MIR. EDIToR:-In the HERALD of No.
yember 18th, see communication OF
I editorial, as the case may be, in regard
to a. company of men from your vicinity
who came here to hunt for nine days
Their names as given in the article are
A. Bowen, r. FriersOn, r. H. Jamison
ct al. In this article the citizens of the
'barrens" are falsely represented, and
among the rest 1 allude to myself. ]
must say for the people of this commu-
nifty, that they are always kind and
courteous to those who may come in our
vicinity with motives of peace and &@'
mony. suppose you are not aware OF
the fact that hunters from Maury county
have caused no little disturbance in our
community. We did welcome them
here, and Joined with them in the chase,
and enioyed ourselves very well, as long
as they treated us with any respect, but
when they began to treat us as an under
land class, not worthy to be respected
as part of the human family, we re-
fused to have further dealings with
them, nor will we have again until they
learn we are human beings of some in
telligence. will give you an instance:
A short time before the hunt just spoken
of. a party came here, and camped in our
village. The ladies and all treated them
kindly, and we could have had a pleasant
time, if they had conducted themselves
as men ought to have done. Attic time
there were several cases of severe sick
ness in town, and several ladies in no
condition to be disturbed. 1t was very
necessary to keep everything as quiet as
possible. These men were shooting
their guns in the streets, running their
horses through town, and creating no lit
tie disturbance. We did not wish to
have difficulty, and the means we re.
sorted to after trying to persuade them
to keep peace and quiet in the streets,
was to send them a very reasonable pc
tition, signed by fifty of our most res
pectable citizens, asking them very pO-
litelyt to leave our town. Now, what
more could we have done? This per-
haps will say as much as the article re-
ferred, "that they were invited by the
most respectable citizens of Lawrence
county," which we admitted in the out
set, but now, since we have been treat
ed so inhumanly, / reckon the invita-
tons from Lawrence are growing rather
"few and tar between"
Besides the company spoken of in
Henryville, there has been Iaany of our
best dogs killed, as we'll as no little
stock, fences left down, and a great
amount of corn, etc, destroyed. l reck-
on you now see, Mr.. EDITOR, why we
object to Maury county hunters coming
into our county to take scamp hunt"
Nor are we alone. Hickman and Lewis
counties are ready to bear their testimo-
nv to similar actions there. Now, Mr..
EDrToR, 1 must say, that my visit to
their camp on the night referred to in
the HERALD, was OF friendly charac-
ter. L went to make them acquainted
with the feelings of the community, in
regard to their hunting here, and to
avoid difficulty if possible. As re-
CARDS DIR. Massey's statement, shat not
one of the party trying to drive them Off
owned foot of land" the old Doctor
has been misrepresented. He is known
here as respectable, truthful man, and
1 feel assured he would not have made
such an assertion, when he knew it was
false. Ifthe gentlemen have forgotten
whose names were subscribed to the Pc
tition asking them to leave, l still have
the petition, and ready to show it to any
one who may want to see it. You will
find a majority, land holders, and besides
this, the leading men of our county. /
know of no man IL all my acquaintance,
who is in favor of camp hunting here.
I will say this much to my Maury coun-
ty friends: If you want to hunt, come
down and put up with private
families. We will treat you as well as
we are able, and show you all the kind
ness we can, if you will treat us as you
ought, and 1 know we are not hard to
please; besides this, we will hunt with
you, and do all we can to entertain you
while here.
thought, Mr.. EDITOR, would say
nothing Of the subject, but see preju-
dice springing up between the people
of Lawrence and Maury, which I would
rather have removed, for have no dis.
position, whatever, to have ill will
against any man. extended cordial
invitation to Mr.. Jamison on the night
1 visited the camp, to come and hum
with us, but that order is now counter
manded, but 1 do cordially invite my
friend, Mr.. Crosby, to come and spend {
a whole week with me, and also invite
you. Mr.. EDITOR, to come and take
some venison and fish with US, and en-
| joy the fresh breeze for few days. Any
gentleman can come and fish and hum
with us, and we will treat him kindly
1 reckon have said enough.
| ALLEN KIDD ,