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for the colored people for several months, and whose intentions may be good.

The colored people employ and pay him because he promises them almost everything, in spite of your orders, and for several months he has been assuring them they could all have lands, and their rights should be secured to them, and, both publicly and privately, he has been undermining the rules and regulations of the Bureau.

Yesterday I heard him harangue a very large meeting in Hampton. appealing to the passions of the people in the very style of exciting a mob, boasting of what he had done, threatening everything that offered resistance to his plans: charging all to resist, and refuse the payment of rents; or move an inch from their present places of abode. before the first of January, assuring them he would make the Bureau do what he had promised to them, or he would go to the President, and therefore "I had better look out." It would have taken but little more to have brought on a mob, and open resistance. He boasts that in all this he has your, and Gen. Howard's entire approval.

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