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<p corresp='TTP35080559P1' xml:id='OTP35080559P1'>Dr sir I send ^against <unclear/> Parker^ you a copy of Endictment for preventing Jno Kiser from <unclear/> the <unclear/> is he challenged his vote as a citizen and Kiser did not wait for, investigation and declined to vote, for while he is indicted the proof showes in all of the contested Election cases that no man was prevented from voting by the Military at Indian Springs the place where Kiser offered to vote, We ask for a pardon for the reasons above I could send 100 names, but I am authorized to speak for them I am much pleased to see your response to Judge Goodlow in the Lexington Freedmans Bureau case, it is the time <unclear/> and I hope to find every union man Standing apart I am in the midst of the most Exciting canvas ever in my county and to see and hear then you would think, Jef Davis had taken Washington
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