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Office Sub-Assistant Commissioner,
Bureau R., F. and A. L., State of Texas
Austin Tex. Sept. 15, 1866

General, 
There is a colored man, Dr. H. Parker, who is passing through the country speaking to whites and black, in the interest of rebels. His course is very suspicious, from the fact that that he shuns union men, and confers only with rebels. He says his object is the collection of facts relative to the condition of the freedmen, their treatment &c. &c. but he fails to confer with any one who can give him accurate information. I think one object of his mission is to poison the minds of the colored people with reference to the Bureau and other institutions calculated to elevate and benefit the Freedmen as all his conversation and speeches tend to