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them anything. He refused them their share of tools & cotton seed- and would not let them have wagons or teams to remove their families under five Dollars a day, knowing they had no money. This is what they all tell me. He paid them nothing until the month of February (if I remember the date) this year. He failed to supply food as he contracted to do, and furnished no clothing, a few shoes excepted, to any of the workers, or their families. He pretends that he has no money to pay the Freedmen because ten bales of the cotton (there were 69. in all) were attached in Mobile, but in the mean time, during the last two weeks, he has made two horse-races here, for $500. each - one of which he won, and one he lost. In the mean time, the Freedmen are suffering for the money he justly owes them, and which he witholds to bet on horse-races. For confirmation of these statements, if you deem any necessary, I very respectfully refer you to Mr. Pierce Burton, who is now in Montgomery, a member of the Republican Convention; who is assistant in the bureau here, and cognizant of all the facts of this case. I will not tax your time and patience further than to say that I have known of no case in which the aid of the military authorities to give to the freedmen the justice they cannot otherwise obtain could be more properly extended than this to which I have called your attention. That, born and bred in the South, I have never seen, in my judgment, a greater injustice than the one under which these Freedmen are now suffering, and will continue