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I afterwards saw Mr R.L. White, Registering Officer of the 4th Magisterial District. He is an industrious farmer, and an active business man, who travels much in the neighborhood. His statement marked "F" accompanies this, and in connection therewith I would remark that he is the uncle of W.T. Atkins, but heard nothing of the meeting or the charges thereat preferred against Mr Graham.

I next visited the 5th Magisterial District, and called upon Mr Samuel Emory Registering Officer of that District, and respectfully invite attention to his statement marked "G"_. Mr Emory cultivates a large farm, and also runs a Grist Mill and Saw Mill, employing sometimes as many as (60) Sixty hands, all colored. As Registering Officer he is much consulted by Freedmen on political and business matters, and as he personally superintends his mills, he is thrown into daily contact with farmers living in a large circuit of county, from whom he hears fully as to all concerning crops, laborers and general condition of the county. He was entirely uninformed about any such meeting of citizens as described by Messrs Baptist, Atkins and Finch.

I then called on Mr Thomas W. Greer, near Christiansville_. Mr Greer is a large farmer, and being a minister in charge of three churches, travels over a wide circuit in Mecklenburg County. He states most decidedly that freedmen are working better and are more orderly and easily controlled than any year since 1864, and that crops this year are both more largely planted and better cultivated. He had heard nothing of the meeting referred to or charges against Mr Graham, but stated that in his neighborhood there is intense - and for the present successful - opposition to establishing a school for Freedmen at Christiansville, in attempting to 

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