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I am daily looking for a brute from Indianapolis or other Northern City that may lift up It voice against the continuance of the black [[Milit?]].
The emancipation and deportation by Genl Ader and the agitation caused by the political canvas has aroused every colored individual in Kentucky to the importance of striking for freedom, and now. The consequence is that the negro population men women and children are generally on the move for some place beyond the reach of master. In many localities the most cruel & fiendish atrocities are being visited upon the slaves by their maddened and despairing masters. Especially in [[?]] time as relates to the wives and children of the Colored men who have united in an army from Kentucky and the latter class push for Military Posts - Genl Palmer has directed his Post Commandants to forward all such to Camp Nelson. "Receive all that come" is the General Order. Five hundred (500) of this class were sent to Camp Nelson during last week alone. I give you these facts that you that you may fully understand the difficulties in the way of our early breaking up of the Refugee