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2ndly That Charles Walker be rearrested by the Military and a new trial ordered.
This I regard as very essential, in order that the colored people in the town may not feel that a lawless desperado is at large in their midst. and that their lives are insecure.

I do not wish to be understood however as making these recommendations in any spirit of dictation as to what should be done, but make them simply because I am on the ground and ought to be able to judge better than any one else the state of feeling which exists in the community.
 
I am Gen'l
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt. Servt.
F.S. Tukey
A.S.Asst.Com:.

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