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1868 March 21 . W[illiam] G[annaway] Brownlow ALS to W[illiam] Bosson; State of Tennessee, Executive Department, Knoxville, Tennessee.

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The Legislature did not pass the bill "authorizing us to dispose of these railroads." Brownlow agrees that the Financial Board should meet and prepare to settle the impending interests due in May and July. Awareness of intent to speculate State Bonds through the "issuance of small 8 percent bonds of the denomination of 50 and 100 dollars." He is aware that such a "scheme" would favor two Members of the board, "I will not vote for it nor counsel it in any way." "It strikes me that the Board should provide for the debt that falls due in May and the July interest, and then stop, awaiting the reassembling of the Legislature in November ." The Ku Klux Klan is "getting to be a very formidable organization in every part of the State." Middle and West Tennessee have been asking for help from the state militia "almost every day." If Johnson is impeached, he recommends Bosson to appeal for help from Grant via General Thomas in the form of "sufficient force to break up these murderers." On "State of Tennessee, Executive Department" illustrated stationery.
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