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a Military Commission for a little fight with another citizen in which neither was hurt and refused to allow him to be tried by our new Mayor or other civil authority, has now in Jail one of our young men for and insult offered him in an eating house or Bar & Barroom hense suspend our police & appoints others where he chooses with many other acts as bad  I wish you would see General Stoneman & have some sensible man and a gentleman sent here  The position is an easy one  Our people are quiet & law abiding, but it aint agreeable to them to be forced or bullied into associations of social nature with vulgar debauched people  May I ask you to talk over the matter with Genl Stoneman and get him to send an inteligent gentleman to rule over us  If you will give this your attention you will render a service to our quiet business people who dont wish to be mixed up with any quarells with such officials and thereby experience the annoyance consequent upon gaining their ill will 

Your friend
W. T Clark  

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