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VII. Numerous complaints have been made during [[footnote 1]] the month by the freedmen the that they have been driven off by there employers; 
this will unless some sternus efferts are made to prevent it, be a source of much complants. I am in posession of reliable information, that 
that some hundred and twenty freedmen have been discharged in Clark County for voting against the wishes of there employers and others have been threatened with voilence and indeed every effert is made to keep them in constant fear; "they are often arrested and imprisoned on frivlous charges: 
the only motive apparently is to intimidate and keep them from voting at the late elections: being easly imposed upon by those with whome they were raised; unfortunately become the dupes of designing politicions and in many instances depart from a firm conviction of there duty and intrests; 
only to reap misplaced confidence: every means which inventive genious could conceive, and every means which political prejudice could

[[footnote 1]] Complaints & Outrages

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