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I have ministered to in sickness, and encouraged when despairing and cheered when sad, on [[?]] long to be cherished. 
Since August I have been here laboring for the good of the Freedmen, in which I have tried to do what I could, and whether punishing crime, settling disputes, or demanding for the down trodden Freedmen justice, or urging on the prejudiced whites the claim of the former slave, I trust I have been influenced by pure motives. And I am not afraid to have my acts and motives investigated & brought to light, for no one can show intentional error, and the curses of secessionists and lazy negroes with whom I have not sympathized,