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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lds
Sub. Dist. of Memphis
Sub. Asst. Commissioners Office
Memphis Tenn. June 22d 1867

Bt. Maj. Genl M.P. Carlin
Asst. Commissioner &c
Nashville Tenn.

General:

I have the honor to call your attention to a slip attached hereto, clipped from the Memphis Avalanche of the 21st inst. advising those who are opposed to the Radical party, not to employ the colored people to work for them unless they, the colored people, vote the conservative ticket. The result of this advice will be that the colored people who are at work for an interest in the crop, on a great many plantations, will be driven off unless they vote as their employers dictate.

Already I have had several colored persons who have called at my office and informed me that they had reasons to believe that if