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[footnote 1] not having kept pace with the better class of people but still retaining the prejudice with which they rode into office, and knowing that with the end of this present term, all hope of re-election and appointment is over; and that the freedmen have this controlling power they seek in no way to relieve them or make complaints gainst their actions of the occurence.
Very respectfully submitted
Jas W. Sunderlands
Capt V.R.C. Sub Asst. Commr.

[footnote 1]antipathy of the Civil Offices towards the Freedmen