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a gentleman of eminent talents and experience, but for high toned character and standing has no superior any where - He is moreover a Union man who never faltered, and whose devotion to his Union principles during the war was tried by the sternest ordeal - 
Lt Higgs urged his nomination upon the freedman as one eminently entitled to represent their highest and best interests, and after his nomination exerted himself to induce the freedmen along with the whites to support Judge R at the polls - His effort was an honest one in behalf of the real interests of the colored race - The secret League however decreed otherwise, and with a rigidness of drill hard to realize, carried through the election of two delegates, to represent a great county that has given two Presidents to the Nation, one of whom is an ignorant illiterate negro, and the other a white man who is perhaps deemed even more objectionable by the community than the negro, and who certainly is but little if any better qualified for so important a position - 
This was the length & breadth of Lt Higgs' offence, his action throughout being open and aboveboard, but it has we learn insenced the Secret League against him, and it is rumored on the streets, that the League in the name of the colored race would attempt to remove him from