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ALS. Resignation letter as Commissioner of Registration for Sumner County. Contains note from Rep. Thompson McKinley recommending that A. A. Carter be appointed his successor.

Scope and Contents Note ALS. Conveys documents to the Governor and recommends that he act in accord with General Philip Sheridan's suggestions. Enclosure: ALS; September 14, 1868, Gallatin, Tennessee. From J. F. Lauck. To General W. D. Whipple. Writes to provide to General H. Thomas information in regard to the murder on August 27th last of a black man name Hike Cole by Frederick, Smith, Glass, and McIntosh of the M company of the 5th US Calvary. Arrested and there being deemed sufficient...

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D (part manuscript and part printed). Signed by F. S. Richards and D. W. C. Senter. As Speakers of the House and Senate, they convey to the Governor a joint resolution ordering him to return to its president and directors the North Western Railroad that he seized for nonpayment of the July interest due the state. Contains an affidavit from A. J. Fletcher, Secretary of State, that this is a copy of the original on file in his office. Dated December 16, 1868.

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ALS. On the letterhead of the Edgefield & Kentucky and Evansville, Henderson & Nashville Railways. Report of the earning and operating expenses for the month of November 1868. With ledger sheet. With envelope.

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ALS. On letterhead of the State of Tennessee, House of Representatives. Recommends Rees A. Biddle, Judge William Dodd, and J. C. Rodemer to appoint as Sumner County directors to the Gallatin Turnpike Company.

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ALS. On the letterhead of the State of Tennessee, House of Representatives. Recommends the appointment, as Directors of the G. L. and M. Railroad Company, W. Y. Elliot, William Bosson, F. Cason, William Dodd, T. McKinley, James F. Lauck, and R. S. Haley.

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ALS. Official notice of the issuance of stock by the Southern Railroad Association. Witnessed by T. Burridge. Bears seal of the Southern Railroad Association.

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ALS. Requests Brownlow to speak at her upcoming convention.

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ALS. Resignation of the Commissioner of Registration for Warren County. Contains clerk's notations.

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ALS. Says glad to hear that Brownlow is not as sick as the papers report. Mrs. Childs and Mrs. Peterson send regard. Says glad that Brownlow is taking his wife with him to Washington. Says that in response to Brownlow's enquiries a Mr. Drexel sends the enclosed (not included).

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ALS. Hughes, a Virginia Republican, writes to complain to Brownlow over recent actions of the House of Representatives in the Virginia Case. The provisions of the Paine bill or those repeated by Fartsworth (?) is the least that could be properly hoped by Congress. With envelope.

Scope and Contents Note ALS. Says that after his enquiry to the First National Bank of Nashville in regard to the outstanding amount of your obligation for E. P. Cone the bank has made a draft upon Brownlow for it. Tells him to ignore it and that he only enquired in order to get the amount and will arrange the matters himself. Writes that he hopes that Brownlow's ill health has been exaggerated. States that every Northern man who has resided in Tennessee appreciates Brownlow's efforts as...

Scope and Contents Note ALS. Discusses recent election. States that the former Confederates did not vote for anyone suspected of Unionism. Black voters were induced to vote the way the former Confederates wished. Says that Unionists are not safe in the county and that Negroes are being shot, whipped, & driven off by the Ku Klux marauders... Complaints made to authorities are uniformly treated with contempt. Without military force warrants cannot be...

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ALS. Marked Private and Confidential.I could not hire here a single day, if Known as the writer of this. Continues in this long letter his discussion of Congress and the actions of the Klan and the resistance of former Confederates to reconstruction.

Scope and Contents Note ALS. The President of the National Labor Union writes to complain about Tennessee resistance to reconstruction. Outrages of every kind are committed, and we are powerless to protect ourselves. Men are shot down, and nothing done. Ask if it would be possible to form a sort of home guards for the protection of each other. Has written to President Grant on the subject but has not received an answer. We must have something to protect...

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Note on Calling Card. A thank you note on her calling card from Mrs. Polk because Brownlow had sent her a newspaper. With envelope.

Scope and Contents Note ALS. Mentions just receiving Brownlow's letter. Missed Brownlow not being in his accustomed seat in the Senate. Your punctual attendance in spite of your ill health has always been a marvel to me. Glad that the political situation is Tennessee bodes well. Discusses the possibility of his being dropped from the ticket. States the amendment to the Deficiency Bill intended to prevent rebels from getting payment for their claims out of the...

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ALS (fragment). Letter from the Secretary of War in reply to an inquiry from Brownlow. Not enough of the letter remains to discern the letter's meaning.

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ALS. Former Governor Brown writes in regard to a law suit in which he appears to have been representing Brownlow and others. In postscript Brown expresses support for Brownlow's conduct in the Senate on the Civil Rights Bill... I regard the measure with horror. In fact it is the meanest proposition I ever saw. I would leave any party, or act with any party to defeat it. I hope it is dead-dead-dead!

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ALS. In reply to Brownlow's request the former Vice President of the Confederacy is sending to Brownlow some articles. With envelope.