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apprehend an immediate rising of the negroes, armed and equipped and crying for vengeance. I told them that in my opinion their alarm was unwarranted and would only have a tendency to excite and trouble the community. This would not do: would not calm their delusion and heated imagination, and they therefore concluded to inform Governor Parsons of the whole affair, stating their manifold fears, &c. The letter was submitted for my opinion, and I told the bearer that I considered it a very unnecessary document, & uncalled for, and I do think so. I have not the lease idea that anything tending to insurrection is contemplated or intended. If the Freedmen could obtain the action and approval of the military, they would probably endeavor to retaliate for the abuse they receive at the hands of the whites, but until they get this sanction, I am convinced they will not do anything wrong or commit, or take arms, action, inclining to insurrection The negroes have certainly been treated very badly in Pike County, and no wonder of