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Wetumpka Ala Feb 5th 1867

Rev'd C. W. Buckley
Montgomery Ala

Sir:
I am requested by a colored woman, of our city, to write you asking information about rations. The Agent here - Mr McCutcheon - says that the provisions he has on hand is not for negroes, but for the poor white women. And have actually refused to issue any to any of the colored applicants for assistance. Notwithstanding some of them, is in as much need, as the poor white women, referred to. The lady who requested me to write this, has a large family of little ones, and she is their sole support. I know her to be an industrious hard striving woman yet she cannot get any aid, from the subsistence Agent here, because she is not white and happened to get a husband killed, fighting to destroy the government. It certainly must be a great crime to be a Negro. I cannot view it in any other light. We the Colored people have done all we could to aid the government, in her hour of need, and now our services are no longer needed, our women may suffer hunger - when it is in the hands of the Agents relieve their wants - simply because they are black. Please write and inform me Wm. V. Turner what course to pursue. Yours Respectfully

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