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killed at de battleof Sh.tloh.1	~ ~

/	“Wàó we good? Cap‘n, from den on dar wasn~t a nigger dare ‚/~sti ok his héad out de do1 fo ~ a week . ~ But nex ‚ day we fi n‘ out

:‘•‘ dey was ~u fluxes ~ dey fount de body of a white man hanging to a pOSt oai~ tree ober by Grari‘ Prairie. His naine was Billings an‘

he come from de Norf. He been ober ~roun~ Livingston messin‘ up

~	: de nigger‘s tellin‘ ~em dey had been pro~nised forty acres and a

~	\~ ~ mule, an‘ dey ought to go ‘i~ea~ an‘ taire ‚ em from de white folks.

~	; “But dat carpetbagger~ouidn‘ do • nothin‘ wid oie Slick ‚ dough.

~	... Slick? Tassah, dat what t ybody call hiiii. He hang ‚ rotin ‚ de

1eo‘te house at Livingston an‘ listen to de lawyers argufy. He try

~	! to ‘membér all de big words dem lawyers use. ehen 4t carpetbagger ~ come to town dat nigger Slick was ‚oarryin). his bag to de hotel an‘

I when~ deys pass de minera~. well in de street ‚ de man axed Sliôk,

/	~Vhat dat water good for? Hab it been tested?‘ Slick say, ‘Oh

~	yassah, dat water been soanalyBed by de bee‘ f‘enologists in de

~	country, an‘ dey say hit‘s three quarters carbolic acid gas, an‘ ~\ de yuther seben eights is hydrop1~obia.
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‘\___ UYassah, dat oie cannon in de co‘te house yaM at Livingston

Was drug outten de Tombigbee ribber whar de Yankees done sunk it tIme of de wah. De Ments useter load ‘er up an‘ shoot ‘er off on

big days at Livingston. Dey ha to spike de olegun, ‘dough, to keep de debtish boys ‘rount town from shootin‘ it off jes‘ to1 fun.

~	‚I Git rid of de carpetbaggers? Oh, Yas sah, dey vo te ‚ em out..

~*~~i‘e11 sah, tell you how dey done dat, De ‘publicans done paid all de

fli-ggers‘ poli tax, ant gib ‘em a receipt so dey could vote same as

~	: de whites. Dey made up to ‘lect de officers at : de co te ho~uae all