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please do me the Honor let your determination as to relief be what it may to drop me a line  my post office is Hay Market Prince William County Virginia, it is my native county and I have been a public man in it upwards of thirty years though I expatriated in [[?]] in the District of Columbia Sixteen years after I was Twenty Nine years old_ To close I say without fear of contradiction no man revered the Constitution of the United Staes more than I did as I understood 

[[right margin ]] W. 359. R.F.&A.L. Va. 2d Vol. 1866 [[/right margin ]]

Genl Auger
Freedmens Bureau
Washington City
District of Columbia

refer to Genl Howard Freedmen Bureau [[HM?]]

it, but unfortunately I did not understand it as a majority of my fellow Countrymen men did.
With the assurance of my fidelity the remainder of my life, your fellow Citizen

B. E. Harrison