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can bring against him if I choose. Now I ask your protection & that of Col Brown against the abuses of these men. I have done no man a cents worth of damage to my knowledge. I am having no difficulty with any of them Why should they undertake to prejudice Col Brown against me I cannot understand only that I am laboring hard to educate & bring up the colored people this they as a mass are opposed to. but this I concieve is my business I am here for that purpose & at the same time to do justice to the whites in doing this I need & must have the protection of the Bureau. I am confident there is as little cause of complaint in this county as any in the State I know before God I have tried to do my duty to both white and black & that I have been honest in all my dealings & I am very confident no man in the State in the Bureau works more hours or is more industrious than I am. I never take an hour for my own pleasure I am laboring day & night — & all day Sundays for the colored people I can possibly do no more and now why is it that these enemies to humanity

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