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of the Blacks - I say until quite recently.  The disloyal acts at Mrs. Staffords - the mobbing of Barry - the bricking of Negroes in Church &c - each frighten the participants upon sober thought, but this fright wears away speedily - when the acts are passed over without consequences of law.

In my action thus far in the jurisdiction of the "Bureau" I have given the preference to white testimony and labored to smooth over the sharp corners between the races, - and also I have striven to impress upon employers and magistrates that they must give the Blacks justice in order to insure success - that when the Blacks are compelled to call on the "Bureau" officers for their rights - the breach between the White and Black-South widens. 

I believe this course has favored unfortunate - entirely unsuccessful.  I am satisfied that in the majority of cases in Court or between man & man when the Black is a party - he does not get uustice - and that nothing but Bayonets will secure such justice.  It has been my earnest endeavor to make my official course reasonable - as little obnoxious as possible - to effect even justice to the Blacks in the plainest of cases - notwithstanding I have to acknowledge a fear