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Dr J G Moore the Rep. is of this class and I am sure that you could have been deceived and misled by him. He was a hard master My experience is that all who were hard or cruel to the blacks while Slaves are yet very bitter to them. Jack Larkins the most intelligent & reliable Freedman here told me today that Dr M told him yesterday that the true course for them was to hold off. Stand in the back ground and watch - that elections &c could do them no good. He has tried to get some of them to say that there was no opposition here to a School &c &c 

The Dr is a politician & here has been on both sides all things to all people and was the same way during the war. Yet outside of slavery I am certain his sympathies were for the Union He expects to run again for the convention & the Legislature and I notice that certain parties who may have been offenders & expecting to be overhauled are now on close terms with him (A new alliance) Col Connelly was with him while he was here & the colored people were afraid to visity him on that account A local agent is to come here Col C told us if so he ought to be an independent Northern man. You know what I mean by this

No one can come here & stay a day & learn any thing unless he was out of sight of all the white people