Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1871-03-25
From the Nashville Union and American.
A TERRIBLE FATE.
TENNESSEEEANS BECOME MENIALS
ABROAD.
Montgomery County Children SGld
into slavery.
$4,000 I'm Gold the Ransom.

We recently gave the particulars of
the wanderings and discovery of a
lost boy, from Williamson county, as
one OF the many marvellous events
growing out of the late war. We
have just been placed in possession of
the facts of the sad fate and misfor-
tunes of n Montgomery county fumi-
ly, ending in the sale into slavery o.
two chiid.cn in n distant tOrrid and
semi barharic land. BY request we
withhold the name of the family, as
surfing u readers that the circum
stances are trCe to the letter, and in
every particular. Singular and ad-
v%enturous as were the facts we gave
of the Williamson county wunderer,
the details, vicissitudes, suilerings
and actual fate of the children OF the
family now being considered, are
more so, as partaking more of the
painful and h~eart-rending. The sale
into slavery of the almon eyed, sweet
faced and blue-veined Caucasian girl
to the lustful Musselman, under sunc-
ton of his crescent banner and his
Koran, shocking as Is the inonstrous
traffic to the Christian world, from.
long usage is Invested of many ofthe
horrors naturally attaching to it. But
when it comes to the sale, as slaves,
of Tennessee children, and those, too,
from an adjoining county, reared by
cultivated and refined parents, edu-
Gated and cared for, and surrounded
by all the comforts and elegancieS
that make home n little heaven and
young life all rosy and beautiful; when
ii comes to the sale of such children
to a people not many removes adj
vanced in civilization beyond the
African Congo, itstarts the blood with
Indignation, and crimsOns the cheek
with shame. Yet such are the facts.
Before the war there resided in Mont
gomery county Il gentleman who was
well known, and who was well to do.
He was an educated man, a man OF
letters and n nan of God, being n
Minister of the Gospel, and one of
the principals of the leading Female
Institution of the county. His fam
/ lily consisted of himself, his wife and
two children, both daughters, the
one being near twelve and the latter
near ten years of age. The family
was a happy n The parents were
esteemed as good and useful members
of society, and their children rose up
and called them blessed. Thus they
were situated when the civil war,
with its fierce alarms, its clang and
clash of arms, burning trophies and
rivers of blood burst upon US in 1861
Then came the time
When desolution, snatching from the hand
OF Time the scythe OF ruin, sat alOtt
Or Stalked IN dreadful majesty abroad.
Tennessee was the banner State il
sending her braves to battle for the
stargemmed bonny blue flag she had
flung to the breeze. Among those
who gathered under its folds was the
minister and gentleman referred to
) He clung to it with the devotion OF
, love and the fervor of patriotism
;. through all the four years of blood
! and storm and thick darkness tina
lowered about il. When Mt last, il
1865, the star of the young Confeder
ucy went out in gloom and i'm glory
behind the hills of AppOmattoX, anC
the SCARED veterans, who had borne
their banner bravely, returned t,
5 their wasted fields and desolateC
t homes, to lay down It's shattered stat
forever, the heart of our friend sick
ened AT the prospect Of his country
ruin, and sank within him. Though
his energies were suhdued in tn,
l struggle, his proud spirit was uncOn
Quered. Whi q some liOn-hedrte,
I ~Southerners, like Sterling Price, til,
e iron Butcher of the war in the West
: in the land of the Tuascalans, and tn
valleys of Cordova sought then
= homes, some mingled as eSiles anon;
Europe's gay capitals, and Others a
" the trupic,, where the breath of mid
= night burns the sand, went for reiug
- to Brazil. Among these latter Wer
our Montgomery friend and his fam
n ilv. Converting his available asset
@ into what ready cash they woul
l. bring, he gathered his family aroun
him and bade his "natiVCland adieu.
"Some natural tears" no doubt, tina
It mother and those blooming childre
shed "ns they saw for the last time
|. the CLASSY Cumberland, that had :
/, peacefully flowed near their home
Perhaps the father, into whose sot
ii the iron had entered 81 deeply, Xix
Is Childe Harold, cared not what Ian
- hi, waudcringS bore him to, 81 the.
I brought him not back Ia this al
y perhaps, rs he cast u lingering loo
It upon Ciarksville, guarded by thos
Ic he deemed opprcssors, he felt as oil
y Jugurtha did, Dhen passing ont ia
Appiun way he looked bnck upon ia
{. even hillcd city OF thc Titar an
rr and, There j. a city Ia he Sold
Whatever may have been theI