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0985

Vicksburg July 18th 1867
Gen O O Howard

Dear Sir the bearer of this note the Hon G.G. Adams who is favorably knowing with us as the Solicitor for the Freeman Bureau and in that copasity he has giving Satisfaction to the colored people as fore as it was posable to be aon [[?]] sercumstances. by which the people have been surounded. growing out of the indiference manifested By some of the agents of the F.B. in this State Dear Sir this indiference has become so general that the people are fast coming to the conclution that the Bureau as now conancted in this place and some others is nothing but a Scene of agravation. for thy may bring any Kind of a comeplaint agance any of the Rebs and they will be put off from time to time and you Know how such a corce as that will end. but if a Reb brings a complaint agance any of the colored people he is hered and attended to without any delay — this is doing harm to the Republican