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have been made by a certain class to establish white labor to the exclusion of the black, quite a number of the planters have secured a supply of emigrants through Col John S Mosby, who is the agent in this section for the supply of that class of labor, they were employed at from Four to Eight dollars per month and found dissatisfaction soon prevailed among them in consequence of the small amount of wages given, and their way of feeding them, and now after keeping them all winter without any exception that I am aware of they have all left the county

During the past month a disguised organization known as the Ku Klux Klan, have sprung up and have been a considerable annoyance to the colored people, and in one instance have injured a colored man pretty seriously by calling him up out of his bed and beating him with Pistol butts and swords &c I called the attention of the