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mulated in heavy damages or are Jesse and Solomon Vaughan to be left with scarred backs and told to go to civil courts for redress, which unaided they have no chance of obtaining.

I earnestly crave your attention and action in the premises and await your reply with impatience.

On behalf of all colored and loyal white men I appeal for justice and if it shall be invoked by this outrage and the accussed whipping post sent after the broken fetters of the slave then Jesse & Solomon Vaughan (innocent men as they are), have not suffered in vain.

I am General
Your obt. servt
Tho. P. Jackson