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My reasons for wishing the contrat kept private ware 1st and mainly, if the freedmen knew that I was paid for attending them, they would make a great many demands for me to visit their families when not necessary, and when they would not if they considered themselves bound to pay or receive my services as charity from me; thus greatly increasing my labors if I should make it a rule to attend to all calls for visits, as I had constantly done since my settlement among them and which was necessary; else cases might be neglected that required prompt attention. Another reason I had for wishing my connection with the bureau kept private was; the pecuniary loss I was almost sure to sustain by it; in the loss of patronage from the rebel element of society which among paying patronage to physicians were in a majority. 

I was not ashamed of the beauro, but knew that I would make more money from my practice to attend the freedmen for nothing, that to sit for fifty dollars per month and have it known that I was paid for doing it 
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