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extricate himself, Therefore the white citizens find it to their advantage to keep the freedmen in the County, for should one or two hundred leave, there would be a demand for labor, and the freedmen would soon hire themselves, only to such farmers as would give them their price, Last week two agents (Mr Allen and Liddy) who are employed by a Mr Abott to hire freedmen as laborers on his plantation in Tennessee, came to Butler Taylor Co. Ga and with the assistance of Mr J. L. Harman, Agent F.B. tried to hire freedmen on Saturday the 17th inst one hundred to one hundred and fifty of them came to the Court House in Butler, where Mr Allen and Liddy tried to hire them, and sign contracts in which Mr Abott promised to pay them $15. per month, and furnish them with food fuel, houses, bedding and clothes. The white citizens interfered, telling them (the freedmen) those Agents did not intend taking them to Tennessee, but would carry them to Cuba, and sell them back into slavery. This produced great excitement, and under the influence of liquor, one of the citizens Mr W. L. Hall, Sheriff of the County, advised Mr. Allen and Liddy to leave Butler, the first opportunity, insinuating as much, that, if they refused,

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