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No. II. 

the whole business to the freedmans bureau at Houston. He got an order for the Justice to stop every proceeding, & for Glameyer to appear at a certain day, Both, C. & G. went P. Christen though a native of Alsace, has yet perfectly mastered the english language. Therefore I believe he has not been silent at the bureau during the hour before Jack appeared. Unhappily Jack was somewhat in liquor & his antagonists when asked if he was often or commonly so, answered, yes. It seems that the officer was hereby predisposed against Jack, who also was not lawyer enough to come to the very point of his objection; in short, P. Christen got the order to proceed. (I cannot believe the note has ever been presented at the bureau, may be it has been spoken of only as an 

Transcription Notes:
*Alsace, a cultural region in France/Germany