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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