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Greenville, Butler County, Ala. 
Sept. 10th 1868. 
Col. Edwin Beecher
Assistant Commissioner, &.c.
Sir - I herewith tender my resignation as Clerk of the Bureau under your command. 
I am induced to adopt this course, because my feeling of self respect, and my regard for my oppressed race at the South, will not permit me any longer to act as the agent of a Department, whose persistent efforts it has been to excite ill will and animosity between the whites and blacks. Though opposed to secession, yet I deeply sympathize with my race at the South, who have suffered so much by the late war; and I cannot consent to add one pang to their afflictions, by teaching their recent slaves to feel themselves better and superior to their former masters. I would heal up the past differences between the North and South, and hence I cannot approve the series of measures adopted by Congress for the government of the people of the South. Those measures can only have the effect to embitter the two sections against each other; and the teachings of the Bureau can only lead to a war of races at the South. 
As a Union man I fought to preserve the Union, and not to make the negro a ruler in the Land. This Government was established by white men; let us preserve it in its original purity by permitting none but the white men to rule under it. 
I am very respectfully
Your Obedient Servant,
Wm McKibbin

This is a copy of letter sent & ask revocation of my appointment from this day. 
McKibbin