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public streets?
I am told too that my own life is threatened but I cannot believe they will trouble a defenseless woman though I know, no gentleman could teach here unmolested.
Mr. Williams one of the board of Registers was taken out by men in disguise last night to be killed but they were frightened away before accomplishing their purpose leaving him bound to a tree. Another colored man was shot and stabbed about noon today by Mr. Randolph the editor of the Monitor here, the man cannot live through the night.
Pardon me for alluding to these things, but we are excited today
Very Respectfully
E.L. Benton