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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & A. Lands
Office Asst Sup’t Sub. Dist. Westmorland [[Westmoreland]] & Richmond Co Va   
Warsaw Richmond Co Va
August 31st 1866

Brvt Brig Gen’l O Brown 
Richmond City Va.

General:

I have the honor in compliance with instructions contained in circular No 6th, of date January 31st 1866 to make the following report: 

In my last report of this character I gave strong statements in regard to the “existing feeling between the Whites & the coloreds” That report in part, was published in the public journals of the country, and made quite a sensation here. I was denounced as stating that which was untrue and uncalled for and, I have received annonamous [[anonymous]] notes stating unless I altered my course I should be silenced. People think, Officers upon this duty which I am upon, are politicians and sent this way upon purpose to stir up public sentiment that will be injurious to the South. Since upon this duty I have repeatedly told people here that I have nothing to do with politics as the regulations of the U.S. Army deny such matters to officers

The colored people are in the opinion of a great majority of the people of my district a race inferior to the whites and are to stand and be 
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