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unfeeling and brutal in their treatment to us. Our color is by them despised, in many instances they have driven their former servants from under roffs and murdered them for very slite provocations their is at this time many family quartered in old out-sheds others in the woods shelterles, at the mercy of the elements and have to base the scoffs and scorns and insults of all that'se proper to offer such indignitys to them they are friendless and unprotected. "Such is their miserable condition at this time".- And yet the Indians will not suffer them to leave the limits of their country. Or suffer us to go to their relief

The Indians are more cruel to the relatives of those who fled to the Federal lines and wore arms against them in and during the late war than they are to others.

The Indians of those nations passed a law at the commencement of the late war, sentencing every colored person to immediate death who attempted or escaped from their country when ever caught on their soil, this law is being at the time vigorously enforced where they can secure a violator. Many of our comrades have gone into the Indian country in pursuit of their respective friends. but none has as yet returned all have been murdered by the Indians