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Pinckneyville
Jan 26th AD 1863
Governor Yates
Dear sir
I have written to you several times since this unholy Rebellion has been [raging?]. times so far as the safety of our State are concerned are growing more gloomy daily here in Egypt. The Political leaders are becoming more bold and daring daily in opposing the administration and the Excitement is now so high that I think the firing one gun by Either party would at once open the ball and bloodshed. there was a rope hung over a union mans door a few nights since near pinckneyville the man has one contraband staying at his house and the opposition to the administration is threatning to run the contrabands out of the country and it is said that there is now a company secretly organizing to run them off together with the persons that have them in their employment Andrew Robinson a very Respectable farmer and by the bye a southern sympathiser of this county told a neighbor of mine Thomas Johnson who is entirely reliable that the Negroes must be run off and that there would
be a revolution here in a short time and that the [cesess?] has a large majority and that the plan was to kill the Governor of this State so as to prevent the Union men from being organized and then to all go to work and rid the State of abolitionists there is one thing certain the feeling higher now than it has been at any previous time.
Our State can be organized by secret organization and the Loyal men armed secretively in five or six weeks ready for any emergency at home if we can get the arms we can organize the Loyal men in this county in two weeks time by organizing secretively if it is approved of by you
Respectively yours &c
Lewis Hammach
Lewis Hammich
Pinckneyville.
Wishes the Gov to allow Loyal men to organize themselves into a secret society for the purpose of putting down a rebellion which he is sure will take place in this state Says a secessionist told his neighbor they had a plan to kill the Gov and run the Negroes and those employing them out of the state.
Rebellion