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To Gen Kiddo. Superintendent of Freedmans Bureau for the State of Texas, at Galveston -

Sir
We, some of the Citizens of Leon County, would most respectfully ask of you, to remove Mr F.D. Inge, from the position of Agent for the Bureau, for this County; and to appoint in his stead, some good, honest man, be he soldier or citizen, which we do not care. Our reasons for making this request of you, are, among others, as follows:- 1st Mr Inge is personally obnoxious and distateful to almost every man in the County. 2d. The people of the County have no confidence in his honor, his integrity or his justice. These objections are not new. They date back far prior to the late war. Long before the late unhappy war, nine of his neighbors, men of respectability and birth, among them Gen William B Meddleton and Judge Simpson Robinson, went into open Court and swore that they would not believe Mr Inge on oath. Since he has been in the discharge of the duties of his office, as Agent, that he has acted corruptly and partially. We most solemnly believe, and are morally certain that proper investigation would establish the fact to an alarming extent. Further, we charge, and have every reason to believe, that he has been the sole and single Cause

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