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the dark days of the 'Rebellion,' and although he was always a pro-Slavery Man and a Southerner by birth he is now a nice friend of the down trodden Blacks.

He is not a very wealthy man but he has a number of Families on his place to whom he has given Cabins and aportioned off land. He has built a blacksmith shop for one and the ballance are cheerfully at work making yokes wagons E.C. and preparing their teams for the coming year. He has a quite a number who are unfitted to labor, but he says he has provisions enough and will feed them all through the winter. In addition to supplying all their wants he is to pay them five dollars per acre for all the land they clear and give them half the proceeds of the crop if they remain with him until it is made. This I consider a liberal and praiseworthy example, and no doubt it will have some weight with the neighbors, but not as much as if Mr Cloyd had been a Rich and influential Rebel.

If you could make it convenient to send me a number of Primmers [[Primers]] Primmers I think that they would be of immense benefit to the poor ignorant creatures who have all their lives been driven under the lash from the Gin-house to the field and from the fields to the Gin-house. almost all of them expressed determination to learn to read if tis possible for them to do so. I did not deem it possible that I could become so deeply interested in these people, as I had never taken any particular interest in them as slaves. But now Freed-men as they are, they seem to me more utterly friendless, and defenceless than any people on the face of God's Earth. But the tide is turning and I hope that the time is not far distant when these black men shall gain the 

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