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the helplessness of children, for aid and advice. As a general rule they refuse to enter into contracts with native Planters for the ensuing year, but express entire willingness to do so with Northerners.

For this I think the former owners are in a great measure to blame, they having begotten by treachery and otherwise, a wide distrust among employed.

The Freedmens Beaureu is the object of illy disguised hostility, and is only consulted when the force of its arm is feared.

Day before yesterdy, during my absence, a negro was pursued past my office by a citizen with a pistol, who searched long for the fugitive after he had disappeared, with the avowed object of shooting him because he would not, although not in his employ, do some compulsory labor.

Transcription Notes:
yesterdy - yesterday