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Uniontown Perry County Ala
10th of August 1867

General.
Please permit me to make known to you, the condition of the Freedmen in this Vicinity. The recent Registration at this place, and several precincts around us, Show the proportion of Ten colored men to one White man, and these Freedmen have interests in the fine growing crops of Corn and Cotton, with which Providence has blessed us [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] this year, but as the Freedmen have no business education, they have every reason to expect that they will be badly swindled in the Settlements. There is no doubt that many were cheated of their hard earnings last year, when there was a Justice of the peace whose duty it was to see them get justice, and now since Robt Christian has resigned that place, they have no one even to look to for justice. The Freedmen looking on me as their friend (and I am a friend to oppressed, as they are now) they frequently come to my Office, and meet me when attending their Sick as a physician, and insist on my looking over their "papers" to advise them what to do. In many such cases, they have been badly swindled.

We have but one justice of the peace in this beat, which generally had three and he gives himself no trouble about the colored peoples interest, but on the contrary is so much opposed to their enfranchisement, that