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Tuskegee Ala 9th Sept/66

General.

The letters of introduction forwarded by you did not reach me.  They were sent after, but did not overtake me.  I am much obliged to you for them.  I made the acquaintance in Washington of Judge Kelly, Mr Maynard and other members of the Congressional party, I am satisfied that if it were possible to have the Congressional programme work as these gentlemen think it will work, no harm would result from it - -  But I must confess, general, that I came home greatly depressed for my people.

I found more bitterness among informed men of the North, than I had expected.  I have believed from childhood in the right of secession & I am sorry to find there as little tolerance for such a belief as there is, in this region, for the belief that slavery is wrong, or rather was wrong.

This belief linked many a man with the fortunes of slavery, in the late contest, though he had no sympathy with any effort to extend or perpetuate that institution.

I have read with great pleasure the noble letter of Henry Ward Beecher.  It seems to me that all men ought to see that his plan is the speediest possible to peace and good will throughout the 

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