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swell with indignation at the wrong and injustice that we think has been done us and we confidently appeal to the General commanding this District and this Department believing that we will be righted and our grievances redressed. For we are yet American citizens and all our civil rights are not yet destroyed. And we believe Military Law though stern is yet in the end not unjust.

We remark upon the persistent effort made to drag the son A. S. Crisp into the controversy where the debt was solely due to John H. Crisp the Father and where A. S. Crisp had received $1000 in gold in satisfaction of all his claims and given a full receipt to that effect. This fact being well known to the Bureau Agent and to Hanford & Willard. Since writing the above we learned that the negroes' claims or pretended claims arise from services rendered Dr. John H. Crisp in 1865 - on his farms or plantation as laborers. Now here are the facts briefly: During the administration of Gen'l Gordon Granger who was the first of our Military Commanders after the 

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