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Therefore General I call upon you to take action in this case, in the name of God and humanity, and in behalf of the heart broken colored people there, please vindicate our rights, if we have any. There is a wholesale intention through that portion of the Country to keep the Colored people in utter ignorance, and to allow them no privileges at all.
If the people of Auburn are not checked in their brutal procedure there will be several colored preachers killed this year. The least evidence that such an outrage would be passed by in silence, would embolden them for three hundred miles around.
I sent brother Alexander to Columbus Ga. to the house of Rev Harry Stubbs for care and treatment, and hastened to Atlanta to lay the facts before you. If Auburn is out