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New York Nov. 1. 1865

Chaplain Manly

Yours of 28th ult. is just at hand. I agree with you that the quietest way at the least expense to the gov't is the best way; especially if that way is the best way for the black man. If white privileges are best for white they are probably as good as worse ones for black men.

I will send you the substance of what I wrote to several of the societies.

"As Superintendent of colored schools in Va. it becomes my painful duty to lay before you some facts connected with interests of far more vital importance to the freedmen than the mere work of education. A large portion of those who during the war were taken as a military measure from the use & possession of their masters & placed upon the gov't farms have already been ejected from their homes or informed that they must leave by the 1st of Jan, next,