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ffice of "Zion's Standard & Weekly Review,"
No. 474 Broome Street,
New York, Dec 10th 1866.

To Maj General Howard,
Chief Commissioner of the Freedmens Bureau, &c. &c.

Dear Sir: -

As the Business Manager of Zion's Standard and Weekly Review, I take the liberty of addressing you.

This, (a copy of which I send herewith,) has now been published six months, has attained a very respectable circulation for the time during which it has existed, and is I think I may say the leading political journal of the Colored people of the country.  It has devoted much space to the matters of the Freedmen, making correspondence from the South a specialty.  Though a church organ, no portion of the paper is sectarian, but open to all:  while more than half of the Paper is of a secular character, making it a journal which nearly all classes will read.

A corporation (Zion's Church, New York) publishes the Paper at present, in the interest of the General Conference of the connection, and will do so until the General Conference shall assume the obligation.  This we think somewhat covers the objection that Colored people's newspapers are not likely to be permanent.

At the same time we need all the assistance which we can obtain, and I address you, Sir, thinking that in many ways your