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avail, and all to be gone over again.

It is a remarkable fact that these people all of an instant understand orders such as are to their own thinking, but those orders which bear upon them for the direct protection of the negro, they are as adamant 

The whole fact of the matter is they wish to get rid of the Bureau, and then they will exclaim "not so many now of the dam Yankees; "Now none of them and now Mr. Nigger we will pay you off."

Very Respectfully 
Your Obd't Serv't
Henry K.W. Ayres,
2nd Lieut V.R.C & Ass't Sup't [[10"?]] Dist Va

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