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off he would take down his Rifle and see that his Freedmen were not molested.

The Overseer does carry a Revolver not for the purpose of intimidating the Freedmen. but as a protection against highwaymen and horse-thieves by whom he has been two or three times attacked.

I could not ascertain that "Col." Gilmore had in any manner interferred with the registration of the Freedman on his place. And, on the contrary I found he had afforded them every facility for that purpose, even taking some of them in his own wagon to the place of registration.

"Col." Gilmore, as well as every other Planter in this section, objects strongly to the Freedman attending political meetings and barbacues so frequently, not on account of politics. but for the reason that every hours labor lost now seriously affects the Crops. And as Gilmores' Plantation is twenty-one miles from Yazoo City where these meetings are held, his hands generally lose two days work when they go to a

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