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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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They are both in a flourishing condition, so much so that the white population (nearly all Rebels at heart) are very jealous, and seem determined to break them up!

They have tried several devices & failed; and now the Rebel owners (though professing as a mere matter of policy to be for the Union) of the rocky hill side, upon which the colored people long since erected their cabins, in compliance with orders, have rented the property to other parties, with the understanding that they are to drive the colored folks away the fore part of this month, of number of colored people around here, have brought me statements of shameful cheating & ill usage from the whites folks

C.O. Whitney (Scottsborough), the very efficient Com'r app'd by Genl Fisk for this Jackson County, talks of resigning his position in favor of a civil magistrate in that place, who is said to not be an extra

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2-15-2021: Transcribed and marking for review