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from violence, and that the deluded freedmen may leave us peaceably -

Upon consultation, we have concluded to appeal to you, and believe that our object may be accomplished in this wise -  If you will send us two privates of yr command - men of intelligence - and with authority from you & Capt Healey - we think their presence - moving about from place to place - will satisfy the freedmen that yr eye is upon them and that violence will be nipt in the bud and the seizure of property stopped. If you will send them down on the Mobile & GRR on Tuesday Decr 31st to Fort Mitchell Station, ten miles from us - we will meet them and take them to our houses - we presume that their presence here for four days will answer. 

We are twenty miles from Columbus, and there are no civil officers near us. We trust, Sir - that you