June the 19th 1863
Randolph Co N. C.
To the Honorable Gov Z. B. Vance
Dear Sir we larn from you through
the organ of the Standard and from
your first messages that it is your
sworne duty to protect the Sivel
law and that Millitary authority Shall
not override the Sivel law and we
take this method to inform your
honor that ther is a company of over
a hundred men about here pretend
ing to be hunting conscripts a
going a bout mobing Sivel peopel
and women and Children taking up
women and hanging them and threatn
ing to Shoot women and threatening to
whip children and laying about
the fordds of the River and watch
ing women and girls when they
are compld to wade the river
and in fact it has got so that
a woman can Scearcly go out to
them selvs on any occasion but
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what the are wached and if we
the sitizens of Randolph think it
too much for respectable peopel to
bear in an inletened land and
they are doing no good for the country
but doing a gradele of harme to this
part of the country they are giting
no deserters nor conscripts scarcley
and are layin a bout here in the
way of Sivil peapel and in truding
on them and eating up all the
Serpelas provision from they pore
Soldiers wives and Childern which
had a hard time to git along at
best without being run over and
troden down with such lawless mob
company as tha have for the last
two monts pressing the provision
that they aught to have for there
pore little childern we can not
See why it is that Randoph is
intrudeed on so much more
than some other countyes for
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we are satisfied that tha is
fewer desertion and conscripts
in this county then tha is in
a most any other one of the
uper counties and wee thinkat
unnecessary to Spend time after
them at this season of the yeare
for in these mountains hills and
thickets what few tha is can keep
out of the way of a hole
Brigaid and as you are our shief
magestrait we ask you to
remove them out of our way
or give your influence have them
removed or we intend as it is
comin to mob if the cant be
moved by sivel attorities we
will try what virtue the is
in our old rifels but we
hope this matter may be
adj[???]ted without any further
[??] [Wee?] think our athorities have
the controlee of the sivil law
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the a bove State ment can be
sertified by a number of our
good sitizins perhops a majority
of the county area would like to
[??] answer to this in the Standar
pleas comply with the request
of those who was yor
friends at the Balat box
and yet Remain

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