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General, 

I most respectfully invite your attention to the circumstances connected with, and following in the wake of the speech recently made by Mr. Bowe nof Charleston S.C. to the freedpeople of this parish; and I would first state that it is my endeavor and desire, not to interfere in any manner with the right of free speech, or to act in those matter which do not officially concern me. 

When matters are misrepresented or misunderstood, because they are put in such a complex form to an ignorant people, who are justly ambitious to make progress in their new sphere as citizens; so as to mislead them for the satisfaction of some personal interest on the part of the speaker, and also, to interfere with the legitimate workings of a Bureau of the Government and to annul the power of its officers, and before their face, and in their midst overthrow the results of their arduous labors, it appears