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He wanted to see the bill, & he also wanted to
see Judge Williams. Being greatly excited, he
talked imprudently, but made no threat against
Mr. Campbell, as was falsely asserted at the time.
He avowed his determination however either to challenge
Mr. C. or provoke a challenge from him.
W. left the next morning (Sunday) for McMinnville,
& arrived there Monday morning. Mr C.
having been informed that Thos T had made threats
against her husband, who was then in Warren
dispatched a servant on Saturday night, with
a letter to him. He was not in town when we
arrived, but came in soon afterwards.
We examined the bill, filed in the Chancery
Court, partly in the hand writing of Mr. C.
and partly in the handwriting of Judge Isacks
who was a great personal & political enemy
of Judge W. and no friend of ours.
The bill charged, that the deed had been obtained
by fraud; that the acknowledgment by Caroline,
being made out of the Court house, was illegal
fraudulent & void.
We remained until Tuesday & left for home
without any difficulty occurring, or even an interview
between Thos T. & Mr. C. & altho they dined
at the same table. Yet in fact, without our
knowing at the time, we even in great personal
danger, Mr. C. & his friends having concocted
a plan to attack us both, perhaps to
assassinate both, which was not carried on
to execution, as I was afterwards told by two respectable
gentlemen engaged in it, because
they saw nothing, no movement on our part to
justify the suspicion, that we had come there
to attack Mr. C. Neither Thos T. or myself