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To the Gentlemen managing the Freedmen's Bureau
Richmond

Gentl'n
Last Friday's Dispatch contains an Appeal to your goodselves, Major General Terry & the Provost Marshall, in behalf of the Coloured people and as it contains nothing but the Truth beg leave to call your attention to this Appeal.

Many idlers are about Town and we of the adjoining Counties lack Labourers — will you not than send us help? Now is the time to prepare for crops, will you not direct the unemployed to go in the country and make an honest living? They want food & clothing and the soil will furnish both. All of us must labour to support those who depend upon us.

We have no money now to pay monthly, but when crops are made & sold we can & will pay fair wages or portions of crops and feed the coloured people liberally.

We will honestly help the coloured people to learn how to support themselves & families, if you only will send them to us with strict injunctions to stay untill Christmas and to behave themselves, a very different state of things will become evident within 12 months.

Hanover

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