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Department of State Washington Oct 3. 1866 Major General O. O. Howard Superintendent of the Freedmens Bureau Washington D.C. General: This Department has information that plans are on foot to lead freedmen to move abroad, and in particular to Peru, upon a promise of higher wages than they receive at home, and probably by other inducements As there is reason to believe that these promises will not be fulfilled, it is deemed to be the moral duty of the over,
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