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Office Agent Bureau R.F. and A.L. Girard Ala. Feby. 17th 1868. Genl. J. Hayden Asst. Commr. Montgomery Ala General I am in receipt of a communication from your office of the 5th inst. desiring that I explain that part of my communication of the 3rd inst. when I say "It has been reported to you that I am a candidate for office and that I am engaged in the political canvas of this County. In reply I have to say that the report is fallse in both particulars." And asking "How can this be reconsiled with the fact that you were a delegate to the convention that nominated Maj Norris for office." In explanation I have to say that in the discharge of the duties of my position I have been able to obtain large sums of money for the laboring men of this county from their employers for their labor which they otherwise would not have received and I have been active in advancing