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Evergreen (Ala) May 20th 1867.

To Major General W. Swayne
Com'dg District of Alabama

Sir, 
I have the honor to beg excuse to disturb you in your important business, but it being impossible to obtain justice here, I have resolved to submit my case to the high authority always deciding with Equity & Justice. I explain myself:

Enclosed you will please, find an affidavit made before the Probate judge of the County and a Submission for arbitration and the Decision thereof. The original of it being deposited at the Court. 

I came on Dr S.C. McIntyre property in Evergreen, (Ala) on the 14th day of January 1866, as his partner, then as his agent, Superintendt. or overseer of his property, always at the full satisfaction of the owner and his wife; both having in many circumstances complimented me, Verbally and in writting on the wise & economical Management of their property and had also promised me "Mounts of rewards".

There was, and is yet a small Distillery on the place, by which the Owner expected to make a heap of money out of it. On the 14th of March last, S.C. McIntyre came up from Mobile and dismissed me, without paying my wages, on the ground that I refused to distill according his

Transcription Notes:
saying "Mounts of Rewards"? Unsure