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freedmen to be ever at work.

I believe that the present unsettled order of things very greatly affects the interests of the laboring people, and that a rapid improvement in their whole condition will follow a settled political status and a clear definition of all their rights and relations.

I am General
With great respect
Your Obdt Sevt.
S.C. Armstrong
Agt in Charge &c &c

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