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New Orleans December 4th 1865

General
By instruction received from the Central Executive Committee, Republican Party of Louisiana, I have the honor respectfully to call your attention to the statement sent by Dennis Burrell & Cephes, to the committee a copy of which is herein inclosed. 

The Committee, is well aware, that these abuses occurred before the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands came under your control, yet they think proper to bring the matter to your Knowledge, in order that you may judge how much freedom is enjoyed by these Freedmen, and the readiness to persecute them displayed by subordinate officers, and doubtful civil authorities, for it seems to have been the aim of these gentlemen to impress upon the mind of the victims that they had done an unlawful act, in holding a voluntary election, to petition Congress

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