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Greensboro, Ala.
Decr 2 /67

Major C. W. Pierce,
Demopolis, Ala

Dear Sir:
Captain Farrand, Agent of Freedmen's Bureau, has shown me a letter written from this place, on the 17th ult, purporting to give an account of a Planters Meeting held here the day previous, and more particularly as to some remarks made on the occasion by Captain Farrand. The facts of the case are briefly these:
A Planters Meeting was called through the columns of the Beacon, to which the freedmen were specially invited. 
After the meeting had been addressed by several white men present, the freedmen were called upon, in general terms, for their views, but no one responding, a special call was made upon Joe Ingle (colored) who responded by saying that the subject was one upon which he could throw no light, or, to that effect. Charles Coleman, was then called upon, and responded. He said the subject