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Danielsville Ga April 8th 1867

Maj Jno J Knox
Athens Ga

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]] 

Dear Sir

I wrote you some time since respecting a freedmans case that I had in Elbert Co I + the Freedman rode some 28 miles to attend trial. But both of the J.P.s took special care not to be there so as to have the responsibility of "deciding for or against a d-d niger" I have witnessed some of the most high-hand outrages that were ever perpetrated on any class of people inflicted on the Freedmen of this country + they don't even stop there but say that as I am the leader of the Loyas few of this section that they will dispose of me by running me out of the County. Your bureau committed an act of great Indiscression in their appointment of bureau agents, Capt Gant your former agent at Elbert remarked the other day that he was in favor of mobbing every "Niger teacher in the state out of it" Mr Daniel your agent for this county declared in public that he would be "God d-d if any Niger should ever go to the Poles with him and vote" Truly an excellent law abiding