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Lumpkin Ga. July the 2d 1866

[[?]] H. M. Turner

Dear Sir
I feel it my duty to address you in regard to the state of things among the colored people here. This is a small change, and we serve both White and Colored. At the commencement of our Conference year, I found the colored charge in great confusion and uncertainty, and very much scattered, but after the outgoing things have begun [[strike-out]] began [[/strike-out]] to settle down, and the congregations to collect, until they became full. I got the church registered, preached to them three Sunday in the month, and when Robison came we had a fine prospect of intensive revival, and I was catechizing near a hundred children, when Robison came I told him they were doing better than they could do in any other relation, but I would lay the matter before them fairly, and if they were disposed to go to him, they had a perfect right to do so. I did so, and they decided to remain where they were. Robison left, and two weeks afterwards he came back in