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Buyckville Elmore Co Ala.
January 15th, 1867

Gen Swayne
Montgomery, Ala. 

Dear Sir
I wrote to you some six weeks ago, I now write to you again in relation to a matter that resently occured in this neighborhood, on Monday night the 7th inst.  Some three or four negro women were assaulted in their cabbins by some six or eight white men partly blacked with guns in their hands and demanded of the negroes their money which they give up to the men. They then beat the negroes over their heads and left the premises. The negroes although the men were partly blacked recognised them and went before a magistrate a obtained a warrent for their arrest and employed me as their attorney to prosecute the suit for them. I attended the Court and did prosecute, and in the face of the clearest and most emphatic evidence the offenders we acquitted. I was informed by a friend that if I prosecuted for the negroes that I would be mobed or perhaps killed but knowing my duty as a Lawyer and believing that I would be sustained by all good Citizens in putting down crime, I dared to do what I considered by duty and the obligations that I was under as a lawyer, as soon

Transcription Notes:
Buyck is a town in Alabama... assume Buyckville was just outside (no longer exists)... in Elmore County Alabama