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Office Sub-Asst. Com'r.
B.R.,F.& A.L.
Houston, Texas. Nov. 20th 1866.

Bv't. Lt. Col. H.A. Ellis,
A.A.A.G. 

Colonel:

Enclosed please find an article which appeared in this morning's telegraph. I know it is bad taste to pay attention to a irresponsible paper but I desire to call your attention to this article for the purpose of showing that the people here are aware that there are a great number of freedpeople about here, they admit that these negroes left here, but give no reason why they return, these people are here waiting to receive their pay for a year's labor they are here because they are driven away from the plantations where they worked because their lives were threatened when they applied to their employers for their pay. My office is crowded with them every day asking that I should secure them their wages, but they know not what has become of the products they helped produce it has been sent
over.