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producing alarm in the minds of all persons who are cognizant of the facts. I ask that you will exercise the authority vested in you to put a stop to it. I preserve an order from your Hd.Qrs., and instructions to your assistants will be sufficient.

It is my determination to see that our laws are properly enforced, and all the rights of this class of the people secured to them. It is my wish to cultivate and encourage the best feelings between them and the whites. I have no doubt with proper conduct on the part of the blacks that they will receive from the great mass of our people encouragement and assistance.

I feel, Genl, that I shall have your heartiest assistance in trying to impress upon all classes the necessity of cultivating enlarged and liberal views in regard to the relative interests of each class, and their mutual dependence one upon the other, for the promotion of their respective