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he seems to have unkind feelings for their whole Race at this time, and they cannot get any satisfaction from him, in regard to their portions of the crops. 

No lawyer here will attend to it for them, without receiving the cash for their trouble, and none of them have it at present. Even if our single magistrate was inclined to show them any favors, he could only benefit a portion of the people around us, for the Counties of Marengo and Hale corner near us, and he would have no authority in them.

We are nearly halfway between Selma and Demopolis, which are fifty miles apart, and we are in the Centre of the largest Colored population in the  State.

General, we will not presume to suggest to our Commanding General, but we will truthfully say, that unless a Commissioner, or Freedmans Agent, be appointed for this place, that many, yea a majority of the poor ignorant freedmen, will be cheated [[strikethrough]] out [[/strikethrough]] this year, of their years earnings. The general policy seems here to be, to keep them in poverty and degradation, that they may be [[?]] for desingning men. Their cotton and corn will be shipped off and sold, and they brought in debt by false charges, which they cannot un-ravel, and no one will be willing to do it for them, When they know that the Freedman will get nothing to pay them with.

We have but one man in our section, who is