“A crisis was feared in October as the result of an anonymous call for a meeting of citizens of the group of central counties, at Jackson, which was said to be to demand the disbanding of the militia, or war on the governor. The governor’s proposition to arm a company in De Soto and send Morgan back to Yazoo with negro troops, were yet pending. His enemies recognized in the governor “a man of high courage and intelligence. His status was that of a gentleman.” It was suggested to General George that the governor would welcome an opportunity of relief, without loss of prestige, from the extraordinary position of pressing a conflict of the races. Before the day set for the convention Chancellor Harvey R. Ware carried a message from George to Ames, proposing an adjustment for keeping the peace and disbanding the negro militia….”

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Encyclopedia of Mississippi History, Vol. 1, by Dunbar Rowland, 1907, page 102