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compelled as yet to keep an officer & squad of men in Marshall Co. and that week had to send another squad to Lawrence Co. & expect to have to do the same thing in the case of Franklin Co. but I send none until they are asked for by responsible Citizens. Not that, inteligent people give any trouble, but the Vallies & Hills are full of a class of men who do the mean work for the whole country, and who cannot be controled by the present weak arm of the Civil Authority.

My own conclusion is, that until the country has time to make a crop & get under headway fairly