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of the State Government. I find public sentiment but little changed. I witness a wholesale emigration of freedmen as a consequence, which to a country like this is the opening of an artery from which its life blood must flow. And I earnestly desire such an improvement in their treatment and condition, as will retain the labor here. And any power which can accomplish this will do a real service to white as well as black. It is a friendly hand which forces the knife from the would-be suicide. Will the Bureau do this.

Very Respectfully
Your Obedient servant
(Sgd) Julius J Fleming