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became enraged and swore he would kill every God d.-n nigger who belonged to the Republican party, or to the Loyal League. He threatened to begin operations by killing me first, he did come to my Office with a six-shooter but remained outside the fence and in the street abusing & damning me for a G.d. D-n- Yankee, puppy etc and daring me to come out and fight him: finding that I paid no attention to him, he returned to the bar-room down town and was endeavoring to raise a crowd to come up, and as he said, to clean me out and make me leave the place, failing in his efforts to [[strikethrough]] rouse [[/strikethrough]] obtain a crowd for his purposes against me, his passion, knew no limits & being excited with drink he swore he would kill some one; just then this freedman Andrew whom he had owned and who was in fact, brought up with him and been his body servant rode by, he hailed him & told him