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Matthew Simpson, President.
Jacob R. Shipherd, Secretary.

American Freedmen's Aid Commission,
Secretary's Office
444, Fourteenth Street, above G,
Washington, D.C., Oct 14th 1865

My dear General — 
I have to thank you for your very kind favor in regard to the College at Mobile. I consider the case clearly a test, and have therefore written the President fully and frankly in regard to it. I will endeavor to have the matter brought fairly to his notice, that he may act intelligently.

Enclosed please find a copy of my note to him. The rapid restoration of buildings and estates to the rebellions penitents (?) will very largely affect our school enterprises; and if the troops are withdrawn and the functions of the Bureau materially diminished; our plans must be re-organized from the bottom upward.

The Right will come uppermost by and by, whatever may be the features of the immediate future.

I remember often, and always with pleasure, one

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