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Com on for citizens to be arrested and Confined without Knowing for
what they are arrested or being allowed even a form of trial
my Cou try O my native land
Outspread neath Heaven
By heavens own Hand
Wilt thou the wrath of Heaven Bear
Till Heavens wrath awakes despair
’Whether it is the vials of Heavens wrath
Being Poured out upon this down trodden
;__ww_W People I am unable to say
( )But we are at Present u der an Abolition
{ Despotism which is perhaps worse than
· \_It has ever been the lot of freemen to submit to
3d Sunday I was at church to day Elder Fallin preached &c
hth At work about the farm to day went to Mrs Mills &c in the
evening
Sth Planted Some Chinese Sugar Corn and some Cotton to day
6th I was at the Point this m rning and went a fishing &c in
the evening I saw a lot of men from Tennessee to day who were forced
to leave their homes and seek a living where war has not as yet swept
over the land with its devastating horrors each day but adds a fresh
chapter to the allready accumulated horrors of this awfull war
_ 7th This has been a cold wet disagreeable day I have been about
home doing nothing in particular
8th I was about the Farm in the morning went a fishing in the
evening with Mitchell
9th I went in Company with G A Sugg &¢ B F Martin to survey a
tract of land on Pond Creek that Belonged to Sugg & the Estate of my
Father we sold the land to W H Crenshaw at six dollars per acre and
he paid Nine Hundred dollars of the money down my Part of the money
amounted to one Hundred and twelve dollars & fifty cts
lOth This is a lovely Sabbath May morning This is indeed a
pleasant termination of the last weeks wet cold and disagreeable ~
weather evrything looks flattering for the farmer at present and were
it not for the war we might look into the future with confident assurance
but as we look arround us and see the effects of this awfull struggle see
men dragged from their homes and imprisoned for no offence see our friends
and our neighbors who have been so unfortunate as to engage in this war
return to their homes only to driven off or imprisoned only a few days ago
I saw a mother with her only son who had been in the Southern Army going
to Henderson to deliver him up to the authorities there afraid to even
give him something to eat or even a place to sleep and I have since learned
that notwithstanding the young mans wish to remain at home and to submit to
the laws of the land and the of his Nbther he will`be