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they can have in Giles Co. There seems to be an end to all law in this county. Union men are not safe here. Roughs collect in Pulaski from this and adjoining counties- They have their own way here, threaten to kill and drag out all who disagree with them- They insult every man who is known to be a yankee at every opportunity. A villain drew his pistol upon me Tuesday night because I told him to mind his own business and leave me alone. I made him put it back. I have no fear of any of them, but I do wish they could be punished for this villainy. The civil authorities do not try to check the outrages of the drunken rable who collect here, consequently matters grow worse and worse every day. This country is certainly no place for northern men to come to settle until there is a great change in the society.

I have respectfully to suggest that I should be better able to post myself relative to the counties of which I am Superintendent if I had my Hd Qrs at Columbia in Maury Co. I should there be 34 miles from Pulaski and 25 miles from Franklin. thus you see I should be near the County Seats, and should be in the middle of my District, where I could know what was going on around me. Now I am in the Southern extremity of my