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waylay and kill them at some unexpected moment and the white people in the vicinity refrain for fear of private damage be done them by him or some of his emissaries. In the past twelve months there have been several unaffending freedmen beat severely in their own houses by men in disguise and this man Grissom has been the leader in every case. The result of all this is the innocent and those who are willing to treat the freedmen right and do them justice have to suffer and the report goes but to the surrounding county (probably to Montgomery) that Sandy Ridge is a dangerous place for a freedman to be found and the result is that those who are law abiding men and are disposed to do the Freedmen justice have to suffer.