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the ears of rebels to tingle, when they read them in the Huntsville Advocate*, At an adjoin[[?]] meeting Col. Dew Editor of the Independent was present, and after the meeting adjoin[[?]] and all the white men left Co. Dew called the meeting to order and made them a speach. He made two points, first "you have made your old masters and all the Southern men your enemies by those resolutions." The Second was "we dont want to be compelled to drive you from the South."

After the meeting adjourned one of the Col'd men remarked that "Col. Dews speach sounded very much like the old Bull whip and Blood hounds." We are wide awake in Northern Ala, and can command all the col'd votes with out a doubt. Genl Callis is working manfully, and has the confidence of the people in this region

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*written Advotate (the line for the second T crossed the C)