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Confidential West Point July 8th 1867
Maj Gen'l Swayne

Dear Sir
Enclosed is a note from Benj Hawkins which discloses the fact that but few of the Col people are Registering and that few are exclusively from the plantations of Union Men
Lisbon Cherry thinks there are nearly Two Hundred Col Voters in the Fredonia Precinct have been kept away from the Polls by missrepresintation and intimidations That it will cost them a dollar to Register that they can Register when they go to vote
Sol Masa who has about twenty five voters on his plantation tells his people that if they go to Register he will drive them off the place 
It would help amazingly to make an example of such a Man as Sol Masa a cruel Master and a most vindictive Traitor & Rebel
The Neighborhood is solidly secesh and without some of your aid will defeat