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compel them to justice. I do not wonder that the negroes can not feel like trusting the whites or acting in "unanimity" with them, politically. Another thing, and this constitutes 'one reason for the unpleasant predicament' attended to in my last letter, I had not been in the place four hours, before a plan was laid to drive me off, or get me into a scrape to compel me to leave, & fifty dollars pledged to carry it out; next a plan was coolly discussed, to poison me in a glass of whiskey, but I did not drink; now the same thing is proposed in relation to my food by those who have access to the hotel where I board, also men have been urged to provoke me to say something offensive in a political argument & then get up a quarrel &c. Also within a week insulting remarks & covert threats have been made in my presence; all these things can be proved; I mention them to show the real political condition and loyalty of a portion of these people. All the more respectable & influential men disapprove of these schemes and nothing can be done against me openly. Now, the leading educated men see the necessity of conciliating the negro vote, & henceforth when 'sick & in prison' he will not lack friends, & I see good reason to hope that from this alliance a party will spring up, ready to sustain republican ideas; So much in regard to political affairs.
Very Respectfully Elliot Whipple.

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changed costly to coolly, Whippee to Whipple