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of Seymour & Blair - not because of any particular admiration they have for their candidates, or any Special love they cherish for the democratic party but simply & only by reason of the fact that the Republican party is the friend of the colored race and the supporter and defender of the Federal Govt - So strong is this conviction fixed in my mind, that I believe the mass of the Southern whites would identify themselves with any party or any people if by doing so they could destroy the Republic and thus accomplish by chicanery or political villainy what they failed to consummate by the Sword.

I am General
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Svt
Jno W. Jordan,
U.S.A. Comr 
4 D 9 Sub Dct.

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