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[[stamp]] BUREAU R.F. & A.L. WASHINGTON RECD SEP 25 1869 [[/stamp]] 

[[right margin]] W#220 Vol 15 -RF&AL 69 [[/right margin]]

their eyes on the land marks of the great transition which we have live to witness, their ful also ready for every solid stepping stone in the progress. As I have not yet made a single purchase of real estate for Association nor advised one which has not yielded a rich return of helping to the Freedmen, Witness Greensboro (Warrensville) Hillsboro and Chapel Hill & Salisbury & others; therefore I do not intend to be readily foiled in this. 

As soon as there is ripeness or propriety I want to see Genl Howard and have a full [[strikethrough]] canvassing [[/strikethrough]] canvassing of the main subject and of all its relations and bearings. I am willing to be sounded by any man's plummet, over this subject, throw in where he pleases, and as often.  And further I ask let us not foreclose it on suspicion or faithless surmises.  Shall we go on or stop?!

Truly as ever, for friendship, and for The Freedmen - his manhood and his rights before the low.

Y. Warner

Transcription Notes:
a plummet is a weight to hold to find straight up and down. The author is Yardley Warner