I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available in any emergency, from fire, insurrection, or any thing else. — Thomas L. Smith Copy Share Image
In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by… — Thomas L. Smith Copy Share Image
I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available… — Thomas L. Smith Copy Share
In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and… — Thomas L. Smith Copy Share
It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more… — Thomas L. Smith Copy Share
