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Houston, Texas,
Nov. 22. 1869.

Rev. Jos. Welch.

Dear Bro.
Yours of the 16th inst. is at hand and I am both surprised and grieved at the course you have taken. It tells more than a day's conversation could have done.

It says that your sympathies are not with the poor freedman, nor with us - their teachers, but with their and our enemies.

You say that the Bureau cannot pay rent on more than one house in this place and therefore you go and pay rent, not on the house, but on an empty house. That's  queer logic. Whately never knew anything of the kind. If your heart was right you would find no 1 difficulty in paying our house rent as you are in duty bound to do.

Capt. Stevenson wouldn't hesitate a moment about paying rent on this house.

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