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Your petitioners furthermore deprecate the idea of being considered in any degree capricious, or desirous of acting contrary to the declared wishes of the Constituted Authorities and the views which they respectfully submit, they urge from a full conviction, that if these petition is granted, the result will be attended with the happiest effects upon the hopefulness and prosperous activity of our district.
The great cause of irritation and despondency now in our midst, is the heartlessness and unfeeling manners of the Superintendent of Freedmens affairs in this district.
We do not believe that the Bureau is designedly our enemy. We know that the amiable and christian spirit which prompts the distinguished Commissioner in Washington, cannot contemplate with complacency, the devolving into an investment of oppression, an organization that was designed for the accomplishment of merciful and benevolent purposes-and yet it is deplorably true, that the branch of this Bureau in our district is so administered that it lends to excite hostility to the Bureau itself, and to irritate and annoy those who would otherwise aid the benevolent designs of the Government - and these things it accomplishes to a degree which is almost unsupportable.
It is that such hardships may cease, and lamentable results may be avoided that we most respectfully solicit a favorable consideration

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