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Brig Gen and 
Asst Commissioner


Office Assistant Commissioner
Bureau of Refugees Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands
Montgomery Ala Nov   1865

Maj Gen O.O. Howard
Commissioner C
Washington D.C.

General


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The morning after my arrival here Gov Parsons issued his Message, copies of which have been forwarded to you. I trust you will see from its tone that there is at last one friend to equal rights in Alabama. and from his triumphant Election that his views are met without prevalence or force here. 
I found on my arrival a Planters Convention in the act of  assembling. It was a poor affair - a few bad men got hold of it, commenced with an attack on the Bureau, which extented to the Government, got into bad order with the Legislature and finally disintegrated.
I was very sorry to learn that you met with Dr Nott at Mobile and that he exhibited his real character, in reference to the Medical College. Dr Nott has since shown a disposition to come to terms, but our reply is that as he has conferred with you about it, he may hereafter do his business in reference to it with you directly. I do not think Gov Parsons ever spoke to the President about it. I have seen but little of him since I came home, but I will see that he is fully informed.
I may say to you in passing that the new Governor Robert M Patton, will be I am assured in no particular behind Gov Parsons in supporting the policy of the Government or the interests of the Bureau. I first met him as far back as 1852, and I think I know him to have been as as loyal as a man could well be in this section.
The Legislature is getting to work. The Senate Committee on Finance invited me to meet there and confirm about a bill for the appointment of a Commssioner to co-

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