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Show General GEOuae, chairman of the democratic state executive committee, commit-tee, with other prominent democrats, having assured Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, Missis-sippi, that they will do all in their power to preserve the peace and good order of the state, and to insure a Mr election and free voting to the negroes, the -governor consented to disband the militia, depositing the arms in depots to be guarded by federal fed-eral soldiers, not to be rc-delivercd to the militia except in case of a riot which could not be suppressed by the civil authorities. |