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Columbus Ga
Dec. 4th/67

Genl. Wager Swayne.
Montgomery
Ala.

Genl
Permit me to say that the prosperity and success of our section of the country at this time depends upon an equitable adjustment of affairs, without reference to existing laws. The laws being made without proper comprehension of the circumstances which existed. I mean in over unreconstructed  country.-

Labor & he who subsists that labor is or should be entitled to the proceeds of that labor in preference to all other claimants under any and all circumstances.