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Office Sub Ass't Com'r Bureau R.F. & A.L.
Savannah, Ga. Decr. 7th 1865.
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Sickles, H.F.
Col. & A.S.A. Comr.

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

States that the man Bradley is under arrest - he is a colored man & said to be a lawyer - is from Boston.

Thinks him a dangerous person. The tone & spirit of his addresses to the freedmen are to encourage theft & insubordination - he asked, to whom did the property of this country belong if not to the negroes - that they had earned it & why should they not have it - said that the Rebel states were in the condition of territories, & that the negroes had an undoubted right to squat upon it, & could only be disturbed in their possession by act of Congress - the substance of which charges he does not deny.

Recd OAAC Dec 8. 1865