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Boston, May 13th., 1887.

Gen. J. C. Armstrong,

Dear Sir:-
I have been shown the letters you have written to Mr. Davis. To say the least, I think this is the strangest thing that I have ever heard. You were present and heard my address at Salem, Mass., and very frequently joined in the applause of the audience. If there was anything wrong in that address, or untrue, then and there was the place to call attention to it. Of course my remarks had to be somewhat abbreviated to  give the time to you, otherwise it is the same address that I have delivered to immense audiences in 40 or 50 different cities during the last few months, and this is the first instance in which I have heard such conclusions drawn from it. There was no statements in my address which could be honestly construed in the manner you do. You say yourself in this letter that I endorse the schools at Hampton and Carlisle. I said that the Indian children showed as great capacity as white children, and I appealed to you personally if it was not true, and you said it was. I then said that you and Captain Pratt had demonstrated beyong the possibility of contradiction that Indian children showed as great capacity both in letters and in the industrial art [arts?] as white children. Then I said when these children were returned to the Reserve under the present system whereby our intercourse, laws,   

Transcription Notes:
"BEYONG" should be "BEYOND" Last line: Might be a handwritten comma after system