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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
States of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Assistant Commissioner's Office,
Nashville Tenn Feb 23d 1866

General
I have the honor to still plead for the freedmen of Kentucky against whose protection and defense politicians and oppressors are so earnestly protesting. There is no argument in favor of the continuance of the Bureau in Tennessee or Mississippi, that does not apply with equal force in behalf of its presence in Kentucky. Ten hundred thousand emancipated men women and children in Kentucky are denied protection for person and property by the State laws. They turn to the Government which has given them freedom, and ask that they be not left to the mercy of the enemies of liberty and justice.

The Kentucky Legislature as well as a large public meeting held recently in Louisville adopted resolutions requesting the removal of the Freedmen's Bureau from the State. These resolutions will doubtless be soon presented to the President. I have the