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in actual fact, that may be the case after a while when the Freedmen can take care of themselves, but that it is not so now, can be proved by a thousand instances

I do not wish you to understand that I make these accusations against all the men in this county by any means. Some of the men in this county and  I am happy to state that they are the very best men in the county have taken a proper stand in this matter, by these men I am supported in all my acts. These men have made just and good contracts with their Freedmen, are honestly doing their part and their Freedmen are, industrious, contented and happy.  If all men were such as these there would be no necessity of a Freedman's Bureau or anything else of the kind.  But Sir we do not make laws for the prevention & punishment of crime in the fear that good and just men will disobey them but with the certain knowledge that the bad men will.  And so with this Freedman's Bureau, it is needed not for those who are doing right, against such the Freedmen do not need protection, but it is against a rascally and worthless set who are taking advantage of every disability under which the Freedmen labors and who wish to keep him in his present condition, that they may abuse oppress and defraud him to the end of their lives