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for you to when they do not want you and when the colored people are well served, and contented, and break up, and disturb all our plans for their improvement without our consent. But you say the colored church here sent for a colored preacher. If there is trust in them, they never did it, and did not even know that there was such a church as the A.M.E. Church, and indeed many intelegent white people did not know it. Fortune came down here and presumed to have the right to walk in and take charge of the church as a matter of course, whether either colored or white were willing.

Again, you say you (Fortune) were told by the Agents of the Freedmen Bureau, that if you remained you possibly be killed. The agent denied telling him any such thing, and Fortune denied to the agent that he had told you any such thing, well now I presume you have told Gen Tillson that he was in danger here and he has ordered the agent here to hold six of our most responsible citizens responsible for Fortunes safety. If there was danger, this only increases it, and for Fortunes sake you had better have that order recalled. There is a secret clan in this country