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not to be questioned, but while it was no protection the sight of it irritated men carrying concealed weapons.
By my order Mr Stilzig went down to settle up the accounts on a plantation where there had been some complaints and shouting growing out of it. This he accomplishes in a satisfactory manner.
The Eutaw and Greensboro agencies have never amounted to anything. The last Agents at those villages being both members of the State Legislature and their time taken up in attending extra sessions of the Legislature rendered their services inefficient.
There never has been agent at Butler the County seat of Choctaw Co. though it is one of the most insubordinate parties of my district; and what I say of Choctaw I may say of my whole district, that everywhere beyond the personal influence of an agent who attend closely to business and has the entire confidence of the blacks, the colored people are but little better off than in times of slavery.
In some respects they are worse off