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Arrangements were going well under impressions made by Col Brown & Gen'l. Howard, until one Calvin Pepper, pretending to be the friend of the Freedmen, assured them that they could all have lands, & at a large meeting in Hampton, threatened everything that offered resistance to his plans, that he would make the Bureau do what he had promised to them, or he would go to the President, neither to remove, (nor pay rents) before the 1st of Jan'y.

Would have taken but little more to have caused a mob, and boast that he has Col Brown's and Gen'l. Howards approval.  These measures impede the influence & working of the Bureau