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Mobile
16th May 1867
Major Gen'l Wager Swayne
Com. Dist of Alabama
Montgomery, Ala

Dear Sir
In accordance with the instructions of the League, we forward to you a copy of the Times of the 2d inst, and Call your attention to article headed "another diabolical outrage" and particularly to the marked passages. We believe Major Tracy has already officially reported to you to what extent the facts therein related have been distorted and exaggerated. We only desire you to notice the open effort to excite a resort to lynching, not against the perpetrators of the outrage, but against those who, it is insidiously argued, have taught colored people to do these things, by so called preaching of equality. The feelings on the street in consequence of this article were very bitter, especially amongst young men, and it would have taken but little to have raised a whirl wind of destruction, not alone to sweep off negroes as such, but all prominently obnoxious white persons.
We would express to you our deliberate judgment, that the peace of their Community rests upon ever uncertain basis if similar reckless articles were to be continued. Some day we shall have a sudden storm raging about us
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