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into the river because he asked for his pay - They are continually threatening to do such things. A man came in from Beaumont yesterday and says the people here arrested a colored man and made him pay a large amount and also made the gentleman we boarded with Mr Tevis pay four hundred dollars. It is too bad if it is really so for there is not a better man in the north than he is. These miserable people killed two of his brothers a few years ago and I think he ought to be protected. Very Respectfully M.C. Fitch M.C. Fitch Liberty May 1866