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when the Bureau was in full force and power. It cannot be otherwise, the Magistrates act under the old Slave laws; they do not recognize the colored people as free men, unless a strong hand clothed with the necessary power, is close on hand to watch and to make them do it. There is no Civil Law yet requiring these Civil Officers to obey any other Civil Laws than the old Slave Law. 

It appears to me that every serious point was omitted in the Freemens Bureau Bill, namely, the judicial power of a Bureau Affair. I have in my District about 20 magistrates. Every one of them can defy and upset my decisions, because he is a judicial officer, and I, a Bureau officer, am not. 

I would here respectfully recommend that every Bureau Officer be clothed with the powers of a Magistrate and that no Magistrate or Judge shall have power to adjudicate between black and white, unless he has taken the oath of office required by Act of Congress. 

The white population (the leading class) in the Country is more or less related to each other. The leading planters in the parishes of St. John's, Berkeley, and St. Stephens are about one family, having become so by intermarriage. Nearly all are disfranchised, and of course hate and oppose most obstinately the recent changes, some of them are Magistrates. How can now a poor colored man, a former