The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-07-31

with your request to send companies to the a
counties named.
Very respectfully your obedientg eryant,
GEO, H. THOMAS,
e. Mai. Gen US. A.. Commanding.
HEADa RS DEP. q THE CUMBBRLA8D,
Louisville, KY. June ga, 1868.--Io IFS
ErcsHencv ~. g.. Brosguioa0, G0der9sor Of
Tennessee, .KnozVil5e, Zezss.s=STR Refer
ring to my letter of the 18th inst, to you.
= have the hoBorto inform you that since
writing Z haze proc uFed a copy Of the acts.
Of the tBenty-ffth General Assembly of
gennessee for the years 1875. have,
carefully examined the acts providing for
the protection OF ShefifFs, etc aud relating
to the State Guard, and respectfully sub
NIT to youi as my opinion, that under these
laws if vigorously enforced, the difficult
ties in Tennessee could be suppressed
The 18th, and subsequent sections Of the
''act for the protection Of Sheriffs,' etc,
passed February IsS 1868, appears 10 be
especially available and practicable fer good
effect, and could be more readily and quick
ly enforced than the act to ''organize and
equip State Guard" etc., passed March
18th. 1853, though, if found necessary.
this would be the more powerful organiza-
tion, notwithstanding its DEFICIENCIES as to a
staff corps for its administration.
take the liberty of giving an opinion
on this subject, because OF the probability
of tho necessity in the end of your calling
on the United States for aid under the pro-
visions Of the Constitution, and, as you
have been informed, the force at nay com
mand is SO exhausted by calls for other
duties, that it is not likely that sufficient
troops for the purpose could be furnished.
have the honor 10 be, very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
GEo. II, THOMAs,
...---. -.-s Maj. Gen. U. S. A.
STATE OF TENNESSEE, ExRoUTIvE De-
PARTMENg, KNOXVILLE, June 20, 1865
\ MAJ. Gen. Geo. Il Tzoaaas Your favor
4 of the cath inst, is now before me, and
your suggestions have been. duly consider
/ ed. ] thank you for the same, and fully
appreciate your motives, The pripoipsl
difficulty Ne have to encounter has per
haps not occurred to your mind. The
/ Sheri(fs in the Tebellious counties, for the
| most part, are strangely silent, and as
strangely reluctant to comply with. the pro-
visions Of the law. This reluctance arises
i from one or two considerations either the
fear of violence in attempting to oFganize a
Il
been dis5anded IN some instances the
4 SheTifs- are ia sympathy with the rebelIious
slemeat Of their.resPe etivss counties. aasa
Upon the whole, 1 think il likely shall
have 10 convene the Legislature ia extra
ordinary session. / have the honor to be,
etc. ,5g shza W. GaBRowR1ow, zt
-- afi &C. asli. Governor ofapeBnessee.
This dangerous organfzati0h Of ex-Rebels
now, Families almost every part oftbe eleven
stateeatbat ouce- constituted The Southern
Oobfederacy. and has already growu into
a political engine Of oppression SO power
fuI and aggresive as TO call forth in oppo-
sition several notable. military orders. Or
ganizsd on the same basis. and having the
same dark designs il view, that found q fit
culn1ination : in Booths ASSASSINATION of
Abrabam Lincoln. It works IN secret, mid
sigcs, sym bols ana pass words. Matching
plots to scatter anarchy and permanent dis
order wherever il. may haves an existence.
The influential portion Of the Rebel press
in the South hail its advent IS a propiti ous
circumstance. OF its purposes I need on
II extract from the Constitution of ono Of
the clubs Of it's order, captured by the -pO-
lice at Memphis, the following declaration
"The object Of this Organization is for
the purpose Of protecting the people Of The
South from the band Of mutderers and
robbers now preying upon. Lhem, even to
the last -assassination-and We
pledge ourselves one to the other that moth
ing shall be allowed to deyiate as from
this noble object"
Here we have assassination. declared az ,
legitimate object of this lswless clan. That
it is equal to its purposes Is exemPlded il
the assassinations already committed in our
own State aud other Southern States.
recommend, most emphatically, that these
organiz-d bands Of asesssins and robbers be