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the M. E. Church North, which is considered here as an invasion. He was so informed in so many words.
I came here with a kindly feeling for all classes of citizens, resolved to be cool and impartial in all my official acts, and I assure you, General, that the many outrages- unblushingly committed-that have come to my knowledge, daily, of late, are severely trying that goodly resolution. The Superintendent should have troops placed at his disposal to aid him in correcting wrongs that the civil laws, or those who execute them will not take cognizance of.
The Statute book of the State is a dead letter to the black skin, and the more 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 Ob'd't Serv't
Jno B Callis
Bvt Col. U.S.V. & Supt RF & AL 
Nor. Dist. Ala.

Maj. Gen. Wager Swayne
Ass't Comr BRF & AL
Dept of Alabama

R.O.P. 101.