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Post Office,
Selma, Ala., Mar 29 1867.

Dear General

Our call is out and our position taken.  When I returned I found Judge Gaffold firm which is more than I can say of most of those who felt that the colored vote would secure there Office without any commitment which might injure their social standing.  More than [[strikethrough]] these [[/strikethrough]] this they almost stood with men who have been outspoken concerning the "Recent Congress" [[strikethrough]] stand [[/strikethrough]] ready to endorse any declaration from which they could step where the state should be reconstructed.  At all of their secret caucuses rebels were on hand and that the "Sherman Bill" must be taken none questioned.  But how to take it and leave no Union Republican Party enthroned in Alabama was the question.  Not one believed that we dare out general them by proposing at the start a Republican Party Convention. But we did dare conformed what transpired at each session of caucus we saw the danger and determined to flank the cheat And when the Union men came to