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Tuskegee
Oct. 3, 1865
To His Excellency, Louis E. Parsons, Provisions at Governor of Alabama.
The Intendant and Council of Tuskegee respectfully submit to your Excellency the following fact, for your consideration and such action as you may deem proper. 
Information was communicated to the Council, that a movement was about to be inaugurated by certain negroes in this community, which looked to an insurrection. Therefore the council had one of the negroes implicated arrested, and Captain Geddes of the Freedmen's Bureau had another arrested. Upon our investigation of the facts, it was proven by the testimony of one of the clerks in the bureau, that a few days ago, two of the negroes came to the office to see Capt. Geddes. He being absent, they communicated their object to the witness; which was that they were organizing a company, several negroes had put their names down, and they had elected a captain, to wit, one Henry Pinckard, a freedman, (and who is the one arrested by Capt. Geddes). That the whites in Barbour County were using the negroes badly