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The testimony of several respectable white persons establishes fully her claim as an industrious, peaceable, woman, striving by honest labor to gain a livelihood. The parties who committed the assault, on the contrary, are known as quarrelsome, disturbers of the peace &c. Mr. Suit, especially is to desperate a character, that one gentleman who gave me most information concerning him, exacted a promise that it should not be used to his prejudice - fearing if Suit should find it out, neither his life nor property would be safe.

I am, Colonel,
Very Respectfully,
Your obt Servant
S.N. Clark
Lieut. & A.A.A. Genl.