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say myself that the troops is gone, now let us see what the negros will do now. this Rufus Galloway, I write about, he is a bad man and he is doing all he can to keep down the collored people and others is helping him, to do this, by telling them they must not have these meetings. I had told this man to have such meetings that the [[strikethrough]] know [[strikethrough]] collored people might know how to vote. Mr Galloway is going all through the country trying to turn their minds and because this man is doing all he can to elevate the race. He wants to stop stop him. I would not have written this report but I thought it my duty to do so. the man is now in the woods away from his family