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[[preprinted]] ASSISTANT ASSESSOR'S OFFICE, United States Internal Revenue, ^[[8th]] Division, [[strikethrough]] 2nd [[/strikethrough]] ^[[5th]] District, North Carolina. [[/preprinted]] Abbots Creek March 29th 1868 Gen. Miles Sir; In travailing through Stokes County, in my official capacity, I see no cause for destitution; there is enough land idle, so no man should be in want, if he would half work. There is a certain J. J. Martin of that County, who wishes to be a canidate for the Senate, and his son, a canidate for the clerk; he is trying through the Bureau, to gain popularity, by representing to the Freedman's Bureau in Raleigh, that there is a certain class of people, in great want, and getting means to distribute among them, at the expense of the Government, no doubt to gain their votes. This Martin was a red mouth Secesh during the war, I am told, that the first rebel flag, was raised at his store, and there was a Union man, rode on a rail at the time, by his consent, for speaking in over
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Secesh, per Merriam Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/secesh
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