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Freeman should be debared from taking up the cause of the defenceless and the oppressed let them be black or white but that time has come, and lawlessness and mobocracy goes through our County with impunity and unpunished.  no one can be safe here unless this bad spirit is crushed out of our land, those negros that were robed and beat had done no crime or accused of any crime, yet they were assaulted and robed and because they employed me as their attorney To redress their rongs I was attack and shot as a beast.  the laws here will not redress their rongs, nor mine than what must be done, must I be forced to leave my home and they theirs for safety or will you guarantee to me and them at least protection for our lives.  As references as to my character for truth I refer you to Mr Hatchell of the firm of Hatchell & Metcalf, Mr Stringfellow at Central Hotel.  Montgomery and Charles Cabbot, Jack Townsend, J.B. Taylor at wetun pike 
Very respectfully & c

N.G. Delong