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the friend and champion of the freedman should be willing to weaken the hands and lessen the power and influence of officers of the Bureau who are charged with protecting these [[crossed out]] freed [[/crossed out]]people, for the mere pleasure of presenting its readers with sharp, pungent, bitter and sarcastic paragraphs, made with perfect indifference to the truth with no effort to ascertain it, and about officers who may after all be earnest honest and faithful, and who may be ever anxiously seeking to do their whole duty, and who if at all fitted for their positions must have a higher regard for [strikethrough] and much more charity than dictated the article of the Tribune to which you refer. I am very respectfully your Obedient Servant Davis Tillson Brig Genl Vols Major Genl O. O. Howard Commr Bureau R.F. A.L. Washington D.C.