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Fredericksburg  Dec 4th 1865

Genl.

I have read, with more pain and mortification than I can express, your endorsement on my application to you for the removal of certain chargeable negroes from my farm in Westmoreland Co.  You there direct that the matter shall be arranged in accordance with "the interests of the Bureau" (which Capt. here, says is to be taken as synonymous with the Freedman) - totally ignoring the fact that I too have "interests", nay "rights", justly worthy of consideration.  Tell me frankly will the class legislation (?) by the military tend to induce harmony between the two races or yet will it hold out any incentive to the employment by the whites of the freedmen?  Will such flagrant injustice tend to induce and to foster in the minds of the whites that respect and attachment to the Gov. so absolutely necessary to a real union. On the contrary how absolutely essential to this end is it that the Govt, especially in the interim, to impress

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