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and defended [[?]] their contracts, being constantly resisted by the inertia of the peculiar opinions of Southern property-holders. The evils in the contracts will disappear just as soon as free labor shall have a permanent foothold under its necessary protection of equal laws properly executed.

Washington D.C.
Dec 17th. 66.

Maj Gen O. O. Howard
Commr. &c &c &c

Dear Sir:
I feel compelled to clip from the A.M's, "Chronicle," a notice of an advertisement taken from a Maryland news paper, proposing to sell Richd. Harris as a slave for 6 mos., who was convicted of Larceny at the Oct'r. term of Anne Arundel Co Md. Court.
In the name of God & humanity, can you do nothing to defeat these infernal acts? Are you powerless in matters of this description?
If so, cannot you appeal to some power of Law beyond you?
I am, Sir
Yours for Hamanity
Geo. Helmick

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