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but in concealing acts of bad treatment. The avidity with which persons are engaging in the culture of cotton and the high prices of this article, seem to be running them mad, is increasing the tendencies to wrong in this matter.
As this question is one upon which our people are extremely sensitive and as all cannot see truth without having its rays broken by the prism of prejudice, I take the liberty of forwarding this communication direct and for which be pleased to accept this apology.
I beg to ask, if it is the pleasure of the General, that our law of 1852 upon the subject of vagrancy, and which is applicable to whites, as well as blacks, shall be enforced against freedmen. I ask, because as I consider it the duty of public officers to abstain from the execution of any laws, which are likely to interrupt the relations, now being inaugurated between the Southern states and the United States Government.