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Personally appeared before me Rev. Robert. Alexander, a freedman from Auburn, Macon Co. Ala. who being duly sworn, gave the following statement viz:
I have been living as Auburn Ala. for the last 5 months, teaching a school of colored children. I received an appointment as a regular Minister for the Auburn Mission Ala. from the R. Rev. Daneiel A. Payne, Presiding Bishop at the Annual Conference A.M.E. Church, dated May 21st 1866. During the night of the 14th inst. at about 10 O'clock four white men came at my home, they knocked at my door, and when I opened they asked who lived there. I told them and they then dragged me out of doors, clubbed me and carried me to the woods. Here they threatened to kill me, one of them with the name of Bob Willis' remarked, that they would not allow me to preach to the colored people, that they want them to support their white minister. They stripped me off my clothes and beat me with leather straps until the blood was running down. After this they held a secret conversation together; when they