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as Thompson state I was not intoxicated at the time Thompson was with me nor at any other subsequent time. 

As regards the evidence of Foster I do not think that you can see any thing but prejudice in it. This man is a stranger to me, and he was reported to me by a freedman and woman, as having committed assaults and battery upon them and run them off without paying them their wages, and he knew that he had been reported, consequently did not want me as a Bureau agent, being afraid to meet justice, he was one of the most rabid cecessionists so I am informed by Col. Cooper and others, that the south had and is still unsound

A short time afterward these men left me I went into the street back of the Cundiff house between the stables and remained there with a portion of my guard about one hour and a half, devising means for our safety - while there John Blair came up and advised me to disband my guard, telling me the citizens were excited [[strikethrough]] at the [[/strikethrough]] and met at Cundiff house and that I should desist &c I told him that a portion of the citizens had over awed and intimidated my guard and rescued Miller while a prisoner, and that Miller had got up a mob meeting at the Cundiff House to opperate against me and my guard, and for him to go home promising me to have nothing to do with it, which I suppose he did, I told him that he had ordered my guard to disband, and to let us alone