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There is hardly a day passes that reports do not reach me of all sorts of threats made to the Freedmen to prevent them from giving a fair expression of opinion at the ballot box, and I would respectfully ask if there is no remedy for this? 
 
If there is one it seems to me it should be applied at once. For without it the right of Franchiser's is of very little service to them.
 
I am Gen'l 
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt. Servt.
F.S. Tukey 
A.S.A. Com.

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