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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
HEAD QUARTERS 2nd SUB-DISTRICT, VIRGINIA,
Petersburg, July 16th 1868.
Circular.
It being apparent that the colored population, alarmed by the threatening letter of the Democratic nominee for the Vice Presidency, are becoming excited and dangerous.  Officers and Agents of the Bureau in this Sub-District are enjoined to use great discretion and calmness in their intercourse with these people.  They will in no case discuss political issues in their presence, other than to teach them that there is no cause for alarm.  They will instruct them that tis their duty as citizens to bear patiently and without resorting to strife, the denunciations of the Democratic speakers, and that demonstrations like those in Brunswick and Lunenburg Counties, can only result in lasting injury to the welfare of the colored men of the South.
J R Stone
Sub Asst Comm.
Bureau R. F. & A. L.
Brevet Brig. Gen'l O. Brown
Asst. Comm