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favored pale-face is rapidly becoming, if he is not already, his constitutional enemy. The blacks flock to me with complaints, some of them well, and others not well founded, and say they cannot get even a hearing from the civil authorities; and that no attorney will prosecute their cases; and I know it to be true, but cannot help them.  I am of opinion that the late Act of Congress, relative to the Bureau, has greatly increased the hostility to it, and to the black race.

Some subjects have been touched in this letter which do not come under my agency as an Officer.  But I have written in a friendly way, to advise you more fully as to the feeling in this section of the "Sunny South."

Your Obd't Serv't
(Signed) Jno. B. Callis
Bvt. Col. U.S.V. & Supt. B.R.F. & AL
For. Dist. of Ala
To
Maj. Gen Wager Swayne 
Asst. Comm'r. B.R.F. & A.L.
Dept. of Alabama