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I have got one school in operation taught by Mr. J.N. Leetch and two others are preparing to open in a few days = I requested a lawyer by name of Edward Currie to bring to my office a horse which belonged to a freed boy, who complained to me that said Currie, had promised to keep said boy out of jail or if put in jail to bail him out, Said boy was put in jail on charge of having a pair of spurs in his possession, said to have been stolen - and said Currie failed to bond him out, took the horse and sold him for one hundred dollars in gold; Said Currie refused and still refuses to return the horse; and has and is trying to prejudice the public mind against me for not concuring to let him have a fee of one hundred dollars for service which are worth ten dollars at most. This same Currie got up a public meeting in Crockett and denounced the bureau as unjust to him and to the freedmen &c & &c. I addressed the freedmen on orders pertaining to them and my duty to them as agent. The Crockett Sentinel a rabid cesession paper printed weekly in Crockett, has again and again denounced me, the most outrageous lies are circulated to my prejudice through its columns, picking up all loose talk without foundation gotten up by certain strong cecessionists who are my political enemies and doing me great injustice, this paper says of me, "Suspend him to some elevated object as a