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I think this is a plain statement of facts as they have transpired and I make it as my duty without positivity, or prejudice.
The Freemen have little to expect at the hands of courts or State laws and appeal to me with helplessness of Children, for aid and advice, as a general rule they refuse to enter  into contracts with native Planters for the ensuing years, but express a 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 Freedmen's Bureau is the subject of illy disguised hostility and is only consulted when the force of its own is forced, Day before yesterday during my absence a negro was pursued past my office by a Citizen with a pistol who searched long for the fugitive after had had disappeared, with the avowed object of shooting him because he would not although not in his employ do some compulsory labor.
Another matter to which I would relate especially call attention is the wholesale disarming of negroes who have just purchased shotguns and these who owned them before have their weapons rudely taken from them their trunks and houses are freely, from reports to me broken open for the purpose. Among the lenders whose names so far have been given to me as active in this movement of disarming are a