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He is an old grey-headed man, and has been a slave of the commonwealth attorney of this co. a long time. He has the reputation I have given him among the citizens here, and has rented a farm near here for the coming season. As an evidence of his pacific disposition, he had a revolver which was sold him by the Government, on his discharge from the army, which he did not draw, or threaten to use during the assault; choosing, in this instance at least, to suffer wrong rather than to do wrong.

To show you the state of feeling here among many people (notably in regard to such a transaction, Dr. C.H. Lambert, the practicing physician of this place, followed the freedman to me, and said that "Subdued and miserable as we are, we will not allow niggers to come among us and brag about having been in the Yankee army. It is as much as we can do to tolerate it in white men." He thought "It would be a good lesson to the niggers" &c &c. I have heard many similar, and some more violent remarks, on this, and other subjects connected with the freedmen. I would not convey the impression however, that there is the slightest danger to any white man, from these vile and cowardly devils. But where there are enough of them together, they glory in the conquest of a "Nigger". They hold an insane malice against the freedman, from which he must be protected, as he is worse off than when he was a slave.

I invite your attention to some other matters.  The barrel of sanitary stores you sent me, was stolen in transportation from the R.R. station to this place, by a gentleman of confiderate proclivities named Marsatilla, who lives some miles from here. I started out on foot, and

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