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This policy has its natural fruits. The city of Mobile is in a state of quasi riot. A church and school-house and an entire square of private residences of colored people have been destroyed by incendiaries. Colored men are arrested who are out after ten P.M. Steamboat hands are daily, at the end of a trip, driven off without pay, and in no instance has the Mayor afforded relief, but left them to steal that they may live.

The denial of the right to peaceably assemble is illustrated by nightly descents upon convivial and religious assemblies. The colored people of Mobile petition me that their condition is intolerable. I append such exhibit of proof as I can hastily prepare, but I hold myself responsible for these statements. I can stop this and I will. But the alternative of at once replacing the present Mayor by an honest man, appears to me so much more conducive to complete order, and that harmony that is indispensable to the restoration of the State, than I confidently and respectfully present it to your Excellency, feeling that in your own loyal sense of justice is, after all, the true refuge of this people.

I am, Governor,
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient Servant
Wager Swayne
Brig General and Asst. Commissioner

His Excellency,
Louis E. Parsons
Governor of Alabama.