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industry and thoroughly attends to all business committed to him, and I do not think he ever lets his prejudices swerve his judgment.
Still I think and have in substance so informed him that if had  made it his first business to attach the colored people to him so that no indiscreet persons could have got the leadership of the blacks in defiance of him, I think all the disorder and murders in Sumter Co might have been prevented; judging from the state of things now existing in a circuit of twenty miles around my office which is about the extent of my personal influence.
By order from Asst Commissioner J. [[?]] Livingston and had a very satisfactory interaction with the colored people and one of class white ladies. I urged them never to think of asserting irritating legal rights without adequate protection so long as it could be avoided, as it only exposed them to violence and assassination at the hand of diplomatic men skilled in the use of the revolver; that their rights to carry an old rusty army musket could