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will be to it. I am to address the Union people here this evening, and will exhort them to peace notwithstanding their suffering are many and great. Have you received my letter calling for military aid? I must have it, or fail to proceed. One full company, 80 or 100, will be enough. Whenever I shall fail to discharge my duty to the Government, and to think for [[strikethrough]] when [[/strikethrough]] whose benefit the Bureau was created, then remove me, and punish me as my case may demand. In haste yours truly
Wm. A Sorrill
Supt BR. & A.L.

To Gen CB Fisk. Asst Com &c.
Nashville, Tenn.

P.S. Since the above was written, I have been informed that the petition above alluded to is in favor of E. M. Roulston, one of the magistrates of this county, who refused to give me any answer favorable to the Bureau, in answer to my notice given on the 18th of January last. This verbal insult was that he could not be magistrate for the county, and agent for the Bureau. Since then he was called on by a Freedman, as I am informed, and believe, for a warrant against a white citizen for debt, and replied to the Freedmen that he could find no law authorizing him to issue a warrant to a black man against a white man. Will you hear the proof?