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NARA 264

too good to take revenge on my children if they cannot on me — These negroes have no one to appeal for mercy for them, and there fore, at the instance of my own heart, and the tears of the old blind wife of the one, and my sympathy for the sufferings of the wife of the other (whose letter to my son-in-law I send you) I write you a plain statement of the affair, and hope it will not be in vain — From Mr. Washington Salmon one of the grand-jury, and Mr. Jack Willis*, I have heard, through a friend who talked with them, enough to satisfy me, that had these negroes known what to do and had they had the money to hire a lawyer when they were arrested they might have got bail right them, or been [[strikethrough]] released [[/strikethrough]] acquitted, but Fairchild turned them off without a cent———— I could fill a sheet with the meanness of that family since I have lived near them, 19 yrs, not a neighbor visits them, though where they are not known, they are so extremely pleasant & plainlike that people cant help liking them untill they find them out — They have never personally injured me, so it is not through malice, but God knows, only for the sake of mercy & justice that I write to you —
Very respectfully
Mrs. Julia M. Haynie

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