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account. Now there began the squibs to fly, let loose by Glameyer & co. "Jack, you have no right to sell a grain before your case is decided; we can take it back from every one you sell to, & make you go to penitentiary to boot." That was too much for a poor credulous negro, to avoid such a fate he could not devise any other means than when in his former state as a slave he had the prospect of a severe whipping, viz: to run away! And so he did. He sold his corn for 50, 40 even 25 cents per bushel, left about 6--8 bushel for the negro who moved his wife off (but which Glameyer prevented said negro to take) left also his sweet potatoes undug (no time to dig yet) his share apparently over 100 bushels & went to parts unknown. As soon as he had left, Glameyer