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speak to the Freedmen of that County on Sunday the 26th of August and spoke to about 15,000 Freedpeople they had never heard any one except General Gregory. I am presumptuous enough to say that they were highly pleased with what I said to them and that the planters themselves were also pleased this I do not attribute to myself but to the wise orders of the Bvt. Maj. Gen. Comm'dg as you will see by the following which was the subject of my discourse viz: 

1: How, why and for what reasons the Bureau was established
2: The reading of Cir. Order no 9. with explanation of the