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[[strikethrough]] manifest improvements of affairs in my District.
Still this Court is created by the Military authorities and not by the Bureau and were the Bureau to be discontinued at the time provided for by the Act to continue in force and amend "An Act to establish a Bureau for the relief of Freedmen &c" might still remain in existence.
It is certain that without the cooperation of the military authorities an office of this Bureau could do little more than protest and remonstrate against the injustice of those who chose to take advantage of the freedmen.
There is, of course, much advantage in having an officer to advise and as far as possible look after the interests of the freedmen of the different Districts but now that the colored men have been endowed with the same civil and political rights as the whites it is a question whether they ought longer to be subjects for special legislation.
With the ballot in their hands, having a voice in choosing their officers of the State & of their District and in making the laws, it seems to me that they should not look longer to the General Government for assistance [[/strikethrough]]

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