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Could I bring this matter before the courts, I would not trouble you, but as I cannot, and as you are the fountain of Justice in the Freedmens Department, and as my father is depending on this amount for a support, it seems hard, if he should be defrauded out of a salary that he worked so long and so arduously for. You might ask if the labor merits such a sum. Who would you ask but those cognizant of the facts. Ask Judge Blackford, ask Cypress Congressman C. W. Pierce, ask any one who saw him while in office and you will then say, he deserves no more than his services were worth.

Pardon me General for such a long letter, but when a poor son who has just taken unto himself a wife and is to take care of that father who has been imposed upon, defends his father, it takes a long letter to say all.
Hoping that you will send a mandamus to Col. Beecher for full payment

I remain your obt servant
A. O. Wright