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By the next mail I will endeavor to send forward a report of polling precincts, and of undoubted union men, to act as registers, and Judges of Elections,-—
I have some doubts about the working of the proposed plan of registration, the number of traitors that will be disenfranchised by it, I fear will not be sufficient to secure a loyal convention, there may be so many rebels, that will work into the convention that it will difficult, if not impossible to frame a constitution, that will be republican its character, and therefore unacceptable to Congress, and another $100,000 of State funds expended for a worthless rebel constitution, 
And a like amount for a legislature to make vagrant laws, for the special benefit of the freedmen, and to legalize the shooting them, and to deprive them of any benefit of our ample school fund, and bestow it upon the wealthy, for whom it was never intended——
I will here report to Head Qr. Bureau that the conduct of the Freedmen, is worthy of much praise, for civil deportment, industry, and attendance at the sabbath school, and