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Louisville Barbour Co. Ala Jan 18th /67

Gen Swane
Dear Sir  I regret to have to complain to you but necessity demands it &c. I will relate to you a case which came off the the 16th Inst. Dublin Casey a freedman & wife had agreed to work in or with a squad of hands under the control or headed by Ebenezer Williams a freedman on my plantation & had moved and commenced work for 2 weeks recd rations and clothing, on the morning of the 16th inst he was shot at three times by a band of men and carried off to Giles C Efurd a justice of the peace at Louisville, who tried and convicted him for violating his promise to live with one James Faulk a man with whom he lived with last year and fell in Faulks debt $70.00 or more came off in a manner naked & his family also, it was proven that he said he was going to stay but as price fixed &c the said Justice Efurd gave him 10 minutes to make up in his mind to go back to Faulk or go directly to the chain gang which scared the negro and he is now at Faulks contrary to all his desire or wishes for he knows from the past that he will get nothing for his labour &c now this is to request you to have said freed