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and is considered by the colored people of this city (except for a few ignorant ones) as their enemy in his teachings and influence. He endeavors to inculcate the idea, that they ought to have nothing to do with the Citizens, work for, trade with, or any thing of the kind, but to set up for themselves in all things.

Two unofficial complaints have been made to my office of him by the colored people, that his teachings were almost insurrectionary. His general character and standing here among the blacks and white is bad.

Stuart Barnes 
Capt and A.Q.M.
Supt 2d Dist

E.B. 172 

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