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Gadsden April 1st 1867
Gen Swayne Dr Sir
You will pardon me for again writing to you. An honest desire for the good of the county impells the action. The Section of county on the Coosa river above and below Gadsden is a wealthy portion of county. The farms were large and worked many negros. The greater portion of these people are yet here. A school of fifty scholars could be got together from among those people at the town of Gadsden. I am not well posted as to the program as to the program of the Freedmens Bureau. But if there could be an agent sent here to imploy a teacher and put in operation a colored school, and at the same time look over the other interests of these people It would result in much good.  The charatable people of Ky and elsewhere are sending in rations to be let out to the destitute here.  The distribution of this corn and meat is in the hands of the most rabid secessionists. And they are using the peck of meat & pound of meat as the medium through which to secure the negro vote in all coming Election. I notice that there is an appropriation made by Congress for the purpose of relieving the starving people of the South.
In whose hands is this appropriation to be put