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shooting at night at all points of the campus and into Freedmen's houses is a common thing. As you pass along the streets of Paris you will observe bullet-holes in the fronts of stores where drunken men after dark practice with their revolvers. It has been rumored here that a number of freedmen have been killed near Sulphur Springs Hopkins Co. lately, principally on the way from that place to Paris  My life has been threatened repeatedly here, and there are men here working every hour in the day to have it taken. Ben Griffith lately killed at Clarksville was laying around in Paris and vicinity for some days to get a chance to shoot me. I did not learn that he was near me until he was killed, then I heard of his intentions from several. Such men as Minor and Still are in their secrets, but I am unable to prove it upon them.

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