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Clarksville, Texas
Aug 14th 1867

My Dear Kirkman

I will send you resolutions passed at a public meeting held in this town on the 10th inst.  They are very good, & if the people who voted for them, accept the same in good faith, I hardly know how more could be expected, but I am confident this is not the intention.  They will vote for a Convention & for a loyal man to represent them in it, but it will be some man who lacks moral courage, & and strength in the knee joint.  That the movers in this meeting intend to take this course I am positive, though I think there are several who concurred in the resolutions, who are thoroughly "reconstructed".  

There is one man in particular, prominently engaged in this movement, who must be looked upon with the greatest suspicion, & whose influence must be carefully guarded against, & this is William B Wright, a lawyer of the firm of Wright & Sims. He is a talented man, a shrewd & able lawyer, & utterly devoid of principle.  He will very likely proclaim himself a "radical", & seek to undermine such men as Judge Latimer & Judge Gray, at Head-quarters, he will [[strikethrough]] equal [[/strikethrough]] stoop to anything.  deceit seems instinct with him.  Don't touch the man, or have anything to do with him.  He is the lawyer of the men I arrested, indeed transacts all the business of the gang to which they belong.  When Judge Gray was here, Wright endeavored

Transcription Notes:
I think "use the knee joint" is a dig that someone will capitulate to what others want (like 'bend down to them') I think it's "strength in the knee joint"