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their enfranchisement - and of their duties - explained to them what congress had done for them under the civil rights and military reconstruction law - exhorted them to industry & fidelity in the performance of their contracts and to cultivate the most friendly intercourse with their old masters- Two days after, I was invited to an interview with a cousin by marriage to my wife, who in the most friendly manner informed me, that he and the community were afraid I would stir up strife and discontent among the "niggers" if I continued to address them- that the radical doctrines of "Sumner, [[?]] &c" would ruin the people of the south and after some three hours of fretting and cojoling, made the distinct proposition, that the [[?]] party would give me any position in the new government I could ask, if I did not separate from my old political friends - Finding I could not be bought, they have changed their tactics and are endeavoring to affect by threats, (not against me individually) what they failed to accomplish by purchase - Some few day after, I addressed on invitation a mixed meeting of about one hundred fifty in a neighbourhood noted for its [[?]] during the rebellion in which I told them what they have to do to organize civil government and get back into the [[?]] - There was no disturbance till after the speaking closed when another [[?]] ensued which ended in a shooting [[?]], with out doing [[?]] any harm - no notice has been