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perishable property, and absconded, leaving Capt Slaughter, & all other interests connected, completely at fault.

Now Genl - I wish to state a simple case figuring & I trust after I have demands, you will give the authority to Capt. Slaughter to carry out my wishes, which I feel sure will coincide with yours now when you hear them.

I'm a widow and an orphan - my mother is a widow, & her sisters, all made so before the first year of the war.  Our property consisted of negroes principally, & a happier set of mortals you cannot find - still of course when they are free, you cannot expect them to be grateful, or to acknowledge that they were so - consequently most of them have left us. My 
Father, like most southern gentlemen, thinking negroes the safest investment left my mother 35 young negroes - all young, & among the number several mechanics, she is now, an aged woman old decrepit & feeble & her support taken from her by a Yankee Congress, & President, (excuse the expression) she is sick feeble & destitute to have all lost all that we had.