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Office Asst Supt
Bureau RF&AL
Suffolk Mch 31st 1866
Capt JA Bates
AAAG
Sir
In compliance with instructions in Circular No 6 Jany 29th 1866, from your office I have the honor to report. The state of feeling in my sub district between the whites and blacks is so far as applies to a majority of the citizens encouraging, but a few bad men can keep a large district in an uproar having educated themselves to believe the negro but little above the brute, they vent their spite on him for enjoying the same freedom as themselves and endeavor to injure all those who endeavor to elevate him, and fit him for the pursuits of life 
The burning of a Church & School house in the region of Sommerton is an example: the church was that of the Friends who teach the negro peace and endeavor to make him a blessing instead of a curse
I yesterday arrested and sent to the military prison