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The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], Correspondence Concerning Contrabands. (search)
My duty here is simply to enforce the Constitution and laws, as construed by the early fathers, and in obedience to my superior officers. Very respectfully, Geo H. Biddle, Col. 95th Reg't N. Y. State Vol. Inf., com. Post. Thomas A. Miller, Esq., Charles co., Md. Charles County, Md., July 8, 1862. Lieutenant Ross.Dear Sir --Colonel Biddle refers me to you in the matter of runaway negroes I will esteem it a favor to be furnished with a certificate, endorsed by the Colonel, of the fact of my negro man, who calls himself Charles Waters, being at Aquia creek, in Government employ. Col. B. says he has no knowledge of this fact. The negro's naquia creek some short time since to see after negroes of their own, inform me of this fact. They also talked with this negro, who was employed in unloading bo Col. Biddle closes his letter to me by saying, "I am simply here to enforce the Constitution and laws." In this State the receiving or employing runaway negroes is called h