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lawyers in the District went to a crowd of the mans friends (all uncompromising Rebels & at the time many of them were drunk) & said such [[strikethrough]] said [[/strikethrough]] such things ought not to be allowed that if I was not very cautious there would be another "Cotton Gin affair" meaning that I would receive a similar fate to Capt Culver & other language of a like incendiary nature all calculated to arouse & excite a crowd to acts of violence, & had it not been for the intervention of one or two wise heads probably myself or some of them would have been killed. This thing can be stopped by making an example of one or two, arresting & fining  They are crowding me rather hard, & it will undoubtedly end in my arresting & punishing some of them  Am I right? The only way these people can be reached is through their purse or by incarceration in Jail  it produces a wonderful change at least on the surface

Since commencing this letter I have had [[strikethrough]] had [[/strikethrough]] to stop & hear the tale of a Northern man (a lately come mechanic) who states that this morning on coming out from breakfast at the Hotel he was set upon by some five or six loud mouthed Rebels upon some frivolous pretext

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