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There are not fifty subscribers at this time and this movement is not expected  The present management is bitterly opposed to colored people and very hostile to the new order of things.  Since the closure of the Bureau Hospital two poor creatures have died like animals on our commons to say nothing of the sufferings of others who have been abandoned to chance charity. 

I propose - that you place $500 or $1000 at once in the hands of the Lt Col. Williams Commandant at this Post to be subscribed by him on the 27th inst in the names of a series of colored men (citizens) who on Monday will go up and vote their own ticket.  If this fail nevertheless the effort will startle the present management into decency and the subscription be a claim for future charity will invested.  

Resptly Your thanks
James J. Waring M.B.