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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.