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store in the dead of night-  The Negroes are in jail & fairly confess. and the white man will be presented by the Grand Jury.  His own friends admit that its not his first offence charged of the kind.

Of course a man may be at once a Union man & a thief- but its very unfortunate for us- who on the one hand have to recognize anybodys claims as a political friend- and on the other are obliged to frown upon such practices as this man seems to be guilty of-  My hair fairly stands on end, when I think that some of the men whose names I have sent to Gen'l Brown may turn out to be rascals socially.

3d.  refers generally to Gloucester Co & tax report for Matthews.

4th  About School matters-

The freedmen here are really not able to do much to help at present.  I am going to put one section of the country against another to see wh. will bid the highest for that hundred dolls- that is which will help itself most- the money will not do more than finish a school house after the log walls are put up-  I have promised the freedpeople of this neighborhood to furnish the school with the necessary books myself- but

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