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to be shaped by that Providence which has led my way thus far in the work. You have the expressed wish of the representative colored men of this city, endorsed, as I understand by Judge Underwood; and I think I sent you the certificate of Gen Slough, under whom I acted. I might furnish you additional testimonials; but if your observation agrees with mine- that frequently, the least worthy manage to obtain the largest pile of these- it would have but little additional weight. I feel a desire to remain in the field until I can see a different state of feeling and practice towards the colored race; and I pray that God will hasten the day when it will not be necessary to perform any peculiar offices on their behalf. But I have never before been so deeply impressed with the fact that to bring about this state of things needs that patience of investigation, and that discrimination of action in their case which can only be found where there is a genuine sympathy with the