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be speedily obtained. Another feature which has recently developed itself is the "threats", made by those who oppose a pacification of the political status, that all Freedmen who vote for a Convention, or in other words, support the Republican Party in their just efforts to give force and effect to the Reconstruction Laws, will be discharged from employment, and shall not be permitted to rent lands, or cultivate the soil. 
Nor is this confined to Freedmen, but extends to all white Union men.
I state these facts without suggesting a remedy, satisfied that you will give them due consideration. I take the liberty of calling your attention to my letter of the [[date missing]] in relation to the indebtedness of this county made during and in the support of the war: this is a question of vast importance to this impoverished and overtaxed people.
Order "No 49" has been received and acted upon, resulting in the establishment of a weekly paper devoted to Reconstruction,
Respectfully Submitted,
R. Blair
Sub. Ass't. Com'n'r
B.R.F and A.L.