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The well being of all the inhabitants of the city require that something be immediately done. 
I have done all that I know how. I have gone even among them, and talked with them, but this class can not there be reached. Their indolence overcomes everything else.
The plan suggested will not interfere with the well dispersed and industrious, only with the idle and lazy
I hope you will forward this to Genl Fisk if he be absent unless you can take action without him. 
I dislike as much as anyone to do anything that will in the least interfere with or abridge the freedom of the Black man & I hope that this does not. 

I have the honor to be 
your Obt Svt
Jno A Staley Capt &
Supt RF & AL