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make me fair allowances for the stock sold me which did not belong to him & order me to pay the balance pro rata to the hands. Knowing Genl, your determination to see justice done I have but to wish you may secure the person of this man Ward & compel him to do right & pay his colored employees their wages quickly & justly earned. Mr Thurlow resides now within 4 miles of this place - at or near Mooresville. These two men made some fifty odd bales of cotton last year & lost none at all by "Hoods raid" They must have made a "fair thing" of it & besides the negroes "picked up " for them considerable more. Their profits altogether must have been considerable & I have never heard either of them excuse the non-payment of their hands on other grounds than that the two partners (Ward & Thurlow) couldn't agree on a final settlement & so the hands remain unpaid. Mr Thurlow has raised some 50 bales & over of cotton this year.