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Office Bureau Refugees, &c &c.
Jasper, Tennessee, March 17, 1866.

General: I am impatient to hear from you. Quite an animated debate took place in the Court Room yesterday, in the presence of the Court. The Rebel  Attorney General, A.A. Hyde, made some remarks that fired the whalesouled Col Stanley of Chattanooga, and Amos L Griffith, of this place, who had been driven from his family in 1862, by the rebel John B Floyd and his Command; both Stanley and Griffith, members of the Bar turned loose their batteries, one at a time, and soon silenced the rebel attorney's battery; who, not being able to meet the noble two above named, in open field, has now commenced bushwhacking the few Union men here. I understand the petition to remove me was signed by him and all of the Grand Jury, and all, or nearly all of the Traverse Jury and by howmany more rebels I know not. All I and the few loyal refugees and Freedmen here want is simple justice From my knowledge of the men concerned in this attempt to blast my reputation in the estimation of those who have secured my political salvation, I feel quite sure that the petition will go from here to Col R S Raulston, from him to Gov Brownlow, and perhaps to some of the members of the Legislature. Secure a copy of the petition with the signer's names.