had not paid it. They demanded $4.50 poll-tax,
and I paid it and put in my vote. They were determined that I
should not vote, and I was determined that I would vote for Grant
any way, as I was the president of the club. They told me if I
would vote for Seymour and Blair I need not pay my taxes. After I
got my vote in I took all my Grant tickets and scattered them among
the crowd, and told my club they need not try to vote, it would do
no good. Grant would be elected without Schley County, and we all
went home.

"Last spring we built a school-house, and hired a white lady to
teach our school for several months. We held meetings and schools
every Sunday. Friday night, February 5, 1869, our school-house was
burned up.

"Last night we had a meeting to see what we could do about building
another house. We have a deed of one-and-a-half acres of land, but
there is no timber on it, and the owners of the land around have
put up a paper forbidding us to cut a stick on their's, and see how
tight they have got us. We want the Government or somebody to help
us build. We want some law to protect us. We know that we could
burn their churches and schools, but it is against the law to burn
houses, and we don't want to break the law or harm anybody. We want
the law to protect us, and all we want is to live under the law."

ANDERSONVILLE, _Feb. 7, 1869_.

STATEMENT OF REV. CHARLES ENNIS.

Charles Ennis informs me that he was sixty-two years old last June; that
he was the slave of Mr. G. C. McBee, who kept the ferry on the Holston
river, fifteen miles from Knoxville Tennessee; that he has often ferried
the Hon. Messrs. Brownlow and Maynard over the river; that he learned to
read when a small boy, and that he is now a preacher and teacher. He is
the most intelligent colored man I have seen at Andersonville. He says:

"My wife has been a midwife for many years, and has attended upon a
good many white and colored women in child-birth. Last year we
lived in Mitchell County, and Mr. Henry Adams, of Baker County,
sent for her to attend his wife, who was about to be confined. The
child was born and did well. After the riot at Camilla we were
afraid to remain in Mitchell County. I lived within three miles of
Camilla, and a good many of the dead were very near me, but I did
not see any of them