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of things may be attributed to the presence of a Bureau official it is difficult to determine; still there has been much to convince me that much is due to that fact: the planter conscious of the freedman's facility of complaint restrained his temper - the freedman aware that he was under official supervision checked his impulses, and the result was harmony, or a near approach to it.
In my opinion, if the Bureau were discontinued in this District until the civil laws are administered impartially, a different state of things would soon be manifested. The freedmen have no confidence in the Civil courts as now constituted. All the avenues to justice are filled with obstructions to them. They can scarcely get a magistrate to listen to a complaint against a white man (especially if the white is a friend of the functionary and if a hearing is granted they are probably advised to drop the case in a manner as plausable as to