[Below] "Some what
settlers feared an influx of black homesteaders might upset the political
balance of the community."
[Above] "At one period in
the progress of the [Timbucto] settlement, it seemed probable that the colored
freeholders would obtain the political preponderance of the town, where the
anomolous spectacle might have been exhibited, of an African supervisor
occupying a seat in the county legislature."
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