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iTE~ color went to. No black nigger welcor~e dore, they told me. Thinkin‘ as how I was bright tnough to git in, Ï up and coos dere one sunday. ~h, how they did carry on, bow and scrape and ape de white folks. I see some pretty feathers, pretty fans, and. pretty women dores Ï was uncomfortable all de ti~!ne though, tcause they was too thifalootint in de ways, in de singin‘, and

all sorts of carryin‘ ons.

	tiGlad you fetch me back to Rosa. Us marry andhad ten ohillun. Francis,

Thornpkins, ~1illiarn, Jim, Levi, Ab and Oz is dead. Katie marry a ~oykin cuad is livin‘ in New York, ~r wife, dosa, die ondis plp~oe of J~ir. U~rens.

	ni lives in a house by n~rself. I hoes a little cotton, picks plums and

blackberries but dewberries ‘bout played out.

	u;kyr inarstor, Jainc;s Darber, went through de Civil ~1ar and died. I begs

you, in de naine of do good ‘~•thite folks uf ‚ 76 a~~d Wade Ilampton, not to forget rae in dis old age pension business.

	11What I think of Abe Lincoln? I think he was a poor buekra white man, to de likes of me. Although, I tspects i~1r. Linooln meant well but I can‘t help but wish him had continued spi itt it them f once rail s ‚ whi oh they s ay he Imowed ;~~ll ~ bout ‚ and never took a hand in runnin‘ do government of whi eh ho ]mowed nothin‘ tbout. Marse Jeff Davis was all right, but hirn oughta got out and foughf

some., lak General Lee, General Jackson and t~0j80~ Bonaparte. Us might have won
de
de war if he had turned up at some o~/big battles lak Gettysburg, ‘Chickonmarogert,

and ‘Appleinattox‘ • %Vhat you thix& ‚ bout dat?

	“Yes sah, I has knowed a whole lot of good white men. Marco General Bratton, Marse Ed ~.. ~bley, Marco Will Durham, dat owrted dis house us now settin‘ in, and Dr. Henry Gibson. Does I know any good colored men? I shot doos& Derets Profes-‘