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Office Superintendent,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
District of Demopolis, Alabama.

Demopolis, Ala., February 4th 1867

Maj Gen Wager Swayne
Asst Com'r Bureau of R & F
Montgomery Ala

General,
Perhaps the circumstances referred to in the following statement have already been investigated by the proper authorities, but it being a matter of such importance I desire to call your attention to such evidence as I have on the subject.

It has been currently rumored here for some time that many Negroes are being taken from this to foreign countries and sold as Slaves, and but a few days since, I was told by a reliable gentleman formerly from the North, that he positively knows of the existence of an Organization composed of both Federals