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until after night, Then they give him to some quack doctors to experiment on, and when I was [[strikethrough]] ther [[/strikethrough]] there on Saturday night the 23 inst. (as he was that Friday 22,) they were cuting and boiling him up, The report of him trying to kill Mrs Vincent is all a lie, Bone Griffin (white) shot him because he wanted better wages, But that is only one [[strikethrough]] place [[/strikethrough]] case out of several, There is Simon Clayton, who was kill a few months ago at the same place, and thrown into a well, and there is Trey Martors was [[strikethrough]] t [[/strikethrough]]that in his own house a few months ago at the same place, covered up with logs and brush, And the colored peoples report 44 other murders, within 15 miles of Opelika, And not one arrest has ever been made, Bishop Payne sent a minister to Auburn seven miles from Opelika and he was beat nearly to death and run off, on the 14th of last June, and unless troops are sent there, God knows what we will do, We had a church there, but it is now taken from them and made a wood house, I reported some of these things to General Swane [[Swayne]] at Montgomery Ala, but he done nothing about it, these things are terrible, 

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edited: per SI ignore archive stamp, removed, other corrections edited: small quirks with plurality, any hope on the generals name? *Swayne - see Ala Roster List