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Sub District of Demopolis 
Office of B.R.F. & A.L. 
Demopolis Sept. 1st 1868
Edwin Beecher Bt. Lt. Col. V.R.C.
Sir
This afternoon our Senator, & newly appointed Mayor, Dr Jones, a most excitable & irritable man, came to my office with a proclamation he was about to publish calling upon all citizens to be armed & prepared to resist, if necessary by force, an invasion of the town by armed negros called here by a supposed summons from this office
In vain I appealed to my habitual course of peace-making & consiliation since I had been here, & the bloody consequences that must follow the issue of such a proclamation in this inflamable community. He went off with a full determination to print it. But afterward I with the aid of two leading citizens, most prudent gentlemen, & pledging myself for the good conduct of the blacks I got the proclamation suppressed. It was a narrow escape
I immediately wrote to Stebzig to warn the members of the Livingston Brass Band (whose proposed coming had