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these Gentlemen supposed that I might be of good service to you in your arduous labours, for the freedmen of the state.

but I am well aware sir, that from your intimate acquaintance with the Freedmen and your continual contact with inteligent experienced colored men, that there is very little, that I can say, to increase your knowledge on that point,

Nevertheless I believe with those Gentlemen and with many others that there are some things to be done for this people, such as counselling them, settling them upon Lands and inciting them to industry, and Good Conduct, that the aid of such colored men are indispensable 

this for a long time, has been my convictions, and when southwest the post summer Professor Day with myself Publicly [[?]] the measure, the measure, that colored men Educated, Experienced, Inteligent, are an 

Indispensable Eliment to the sucess of the Freedmen, throughout the Country, which met with one universal favor;

I would tender to you my services in a position that would enable me to visit [[crossed-out]] them [[/crossed-out]] the Freedmen throughout the State, Preach to them, counsel them to their settlement upon Lands, and, otherwise promote their Civilization and Industry