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department for the appointment of Register in chancery. (Green is his name) This, every office has been filled by men who have no love for the Union, and never will have. Gov Patton is seeking for Greens appointment. Here are men who have stood firm to the Gov. of the U.S. that have in this very county been deprived the privilege of earning their bread by honest toil, and that under the influence of those very men, who have been appointed to Officer under Military authority. 
The freedmen here are without protection. Complaints come to me daily (being a Northern man) in relation to their labours that their old masters are cheating them of their rights, and driving them from their homes because they joined the Union League, and voted for a Union man. Unless Government does more for them