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I am every day chagrined and distressed at the mockery of justice that prevails towards the colored people, and our inability to remedy it. There is actually no disposition to show the most ordinary justice when [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] the magistrates are urged to it, and the foulest outrages and crimes against them would never receive any voluntary notice. This has been proven habitually, and every provost marshal at this post will give the same testimony. In the case of a Freedman who shot at a dog that attacked him as he passed by the owner's house, and was stripped and beaten severely for it by the owner, the man who did the flogging was acquitted, and the negro made to pay costs. In any affray begun and urged on by a white man with a negro, the negro is certain to be fined heavily and the white man let go free. These are the simple facts in this neighborhood, and I challenge any calumniator of the Freedmens Bureau to disprove them.
 
Very Respectfully
Saml S. Gardner
Asst. Supt. Freedmen