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much pleasure in saying, they are gentlemen of education and a high sense of moral duties and right, and that any statement made by them, or either, is entitled to as much credit and weight as that made by any man or men of my acquaintance

Jno. M. Gregory
Sept. 15th 1865

We coincide in the above statement

Wm Lowry
J S Moody
B.S. Tennis

I certify that I was well acquainted with Francis Smelt before the War but I never knew him as an active polititian and never even knew his political proclivities  I never knew him as a soldier or as bearing arms in the late War, or furnishing Magruder's Army with bread or any other commodity during the war -

Cary S Jones

I concur with Mr. Jones in the above

Wm. P. Brittingham
Martin McDevitt
c.W. Hickman
Geo. B. West
Wm. P. Marion
Jno. L. Peek