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Farmville Va May 5, 1868

Rev R.M. Manley

Dear Sir
Colonel W.W. Forbe will explain to you more fully than I can the condition of affairs hereabouts especially in reference to the disposition of delegates from Cumberland and Buckingham. At Court day Cumberland a large attendance of the Republicans was ready to elect delegates but John Robinson found there was an opposition to his being the absolute representative and he declined going into a nomination but called a meeting for Saturday May 2 at which he and a relative were elected. He is clearly in the interest of revolution and supports Porter for Congress himself for every thing also I can do nothing with the constituents or those of More or Buckingham and I sincerely hope you will be able in convention to put those men in the shade and open the way for an honest republican leadership in those counties. In Charlotte Co, colored men aspire to office, whose names will ruin the ticket and I look to the action of the convention as decisive of the result of coming election. 
If nominations are made for which I can