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Condition of Affairs in Tennessee. --The Federals are pursuing a most barbarous and inhuman course in those section of Tennessee under their tyrannical rule. A gentleman just from Smith county reports things in a very deplorable condition in that section. According to a correspondent of the Atlanta Appeal, he says that a villain by the name of Blackburn, formerly a stage driver, now a Captain in Stoke's cavalry, leads about two hundred out-throats, who range through Davidson, Wilson, Sumner, and DeKalb counties, robbing, pillaging, and murdering in a manner that would disgrace the Thugs of India, or inhabitants of Barbary. In several instances they have rode up to houses where men were simply suspected of having Southern proclivities, called them out and shot them down in cold blood, in the presence of the horror stricken wife and screaming little ones, alleging that all deserve death who have not taken the oath and secured protection papers from the Federal authorities.
under their tyrannical rule. A gentleman just from Smith county reports things in a very deplorable condition in that section. According to a correspondent of the Atlanta Appeal, he says that a villain by the name of Blackburn, formerly a stage driver, now a Captain in Stoke's cavalry, leads about two hundred out-throats, who range through Davidson, Wilson, Sumner, and DeKalb counties, robbing, pillaging, and murdering in a manner that would disgrace the Thugs of India, or inhabitants of Barbary. In several instances they have rode up to houses where men were simply suspected of having Southern proclivities, called them out and shot them down in cold blood, in the presence of the horror stricken wife and screaming little ones, alleging that all deserve death who have not taken the oath and secured protection papers from the Federal authorities. The negroes are pretty generally free, and most of them are being forced into the army. The Federals first inveigle them away from h
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