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blind them to their wrongs. Of course this is done in such a way as to admit of no official complaint, but that it is done is sufficiently evident in the universal impression among the blacks that they have no chance against a white man in the courts. Deprived of the counsel and official assistance of the Bureau agent, the freedmen would, in effect, be left at the mercy of the employer, for the "justice" of the courts would assume the form of his will. What the result would be it is not difficult to conjecture: - there would be continual strife and a ruinous disorganization of labor.
Many of the more thoughtful and intelligent planters here about say that they want the Bureau to continue until the freedmen are trained to systematic labor, and become more fully instructed in their rights and responsibilities. They think that this cannot be effected in any other way than by the supervision of Government officers for a year or two longer for while