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Hazlehurst Miss July 5th 1868

Gen A.C. Gillem 
Vicksburg Miss

General
I hope you will excuse me for taking the liberty of addressing you this letter, but as I may be in possession of facts unknown to your official reporters induce me to adress you this letter, on Wednesday last it being the day for the election at this place, some 200 freedmen who wanted me, (I being the republicun Candidate for The Legislature) to form in procession with them and march to the Polls. We formed in procession neare the residence of Mr Healy and was quiately marching, with Banners Pictures and U.S. Flags, without musick or any nois of any kind whatever, we did not get 1,50 yards before being met by a mob our Banners Pictures  and flags torn and Broken up and taken from us, and the men in the procession  brickbatted and forced to run for safety. They were chaised to the residence of Mr Harvey, and some even out of town and  to other private resisences, many of whom did not get back to voat, a republicsn could not pass the streets withiut meeting with insults on all hands and at every corner and was forced to remain in the [[presence?]] of a shope for personal safety and [[protection?]], I regret to say that some of the men compossing the mob their names I can give if desired, are [[Debley?]]