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fully; he then called for his comrads to help him kill the God d----d Yankee that kicked him out doors, they did not come at his calling and he went after them. I was standing in my office door when one of Micon's comrads by the name of James Mundy come up to me and threatened my life for putting Micon out of my office. I drew my pistol from my pocket and told him I would shoot him if he attempted to injure me, he still persisted in a violent rage to do me injury. I then cocked my pistol to shoot him when a gentleman dragged him from my door. The ruffians then collected together at about twenty feet from my door and remained there from one o clock until dark trying to get into my office but were prevented partly by some gentlemen who thought the ruffians were wrong and partly because they knew that I would shoot them if they did come. The Freedmen were so incensed at the attempted outrage upon me that I feared every moment it would end in a riot, but it ended in a fight between a drunken Magistrate and one of the ruffians. I considered it the duty of the Magistrate to put these men in jail for disturbing the peace if nothing more, but they made no attempt to do it; two of the Magistrates were drunk also the Commonwealths attorney, but there was two or three other Magistrates who were not drunk that should have arrested them.

The Civil Officers in this County (Essex) have no