ALS. On the letterhead of the Olive Street Hotel, St. Louis, Mo. Rogers, a Unionist from Browneville, Tennessee, recommends W. P. Bond and David A. Meiman (?) to be Circuit Court judges. Also recommends John Trimble and urges only Union men be appointed to office. Gives advice on the conduct of local offices. Says Browneville, not Jackson, should be the location for Federal and Supreme Courts. In Jackson only old Judge John Read is a Unionist. Urges that there be a law requiring that blacks work. A negro's idea of freedom is that he must not work anymore and white folks must support them. Urges that they either be compelled to work or be sent away and be colonized.