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found which examination was made in presence of Revd Mr Springer Agent of the Freedmen's Bureau, shows the origin and nature of the paper

I also enclose the statement of Col. Livering who examined into the subject in the territory who examined into the subject in the territory.

I had no doubt from the beginning that the whole paper was a tissue of falsehoods concocted by one or more white men with the double object - firstly - to make money, secondly - to make mischief and without any reference whatever to serving the negroes. I am now convinced of it - The negroes I have seen tell me that they were promised that their families should be here by Christmas - that they had applied to Mr Pratt about it who told them that I had signed the paper & that it was all right &c.

I take this opportunity to warn the Freedmen's Bureau. That there is here as doubtless elsewhere a set of men like the getter up of this petition bent upon keeping up bad blood between northern and southern