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in substance that "this property, being needed by Government, should not be given up." Since that time no answer has been made to the petition.

I can prove by citizens of this town that within the last three months the property was vacant (after the Refugees left it) for more than one month, and so remained vacant until a week or so ago when it was converted into, and is now used as, an "Industrial School" for negro women.

I am now living with my family consisting of my wife and six children (five of them girls, two born by chance, on a plantation twenty-two miles in the country), that I will soon be compelled to vacate, as the place is to be rented or sold to wind up a decedent's estate, and I can get no other place to live, having diligently tried, trying also the meanwhile to get possession of my own property.

I mention these, under the circumstances, as a case of peculiar hardship. I have taken and subscribed the oath of allegiance, as required by the President—there are none more loyal and entitled to more clemency than I, have the property restored to them, and I request you, on the score of friendship, to lay the above facts before Gen. Sprague, who is the the Commissioner for the District of Ark, and who I learn is at Little Rock, all which facts

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