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The large majority of the colored people, here refuse to let him either teach or preach in our school-house, be- lieving him to be no true friend to them & knowing him to be on the side of the Rebels (who pay him) by his whole conduct here. I make this statement asking you to present it to the Bureau, if you are not in author- ity yourself, adding your own protest to any interference of the 'Bureau' with - my rights and those of the majority, a very large one (almost unamimous) of the Freedmen, in the