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spirit, which were answered with the conscious feeling that the right and the power were and are on my side.

Upon the whole our interview was cordial, and I never felt more satisfied with my success in defending the right and justice of our cause.

The Planters.

Planters from all sections have rushed to this office to ask countless questions about contracts.  Our method is so different from anything they have been accustomed to that they cannot comprehend it at first.

Many of them are men of limited business experience, and accustomed to raising cotton and corn by slave labor.  They have shown much candor in many cases, and have asked their thousands of questions from a sincere desire to know what we wished them to do, and that they might be right.
In all cases I have answered their questions with great patience and fulness till my tired lungs pained me.  By few have shown any disposition to treat the Freedmen unjustly.

In one instance I refused to let a man hire Freedmen, but he soon came to terms.

Order in the County Districts.

In a number of cases I have furnished guards for plantations where the Freedmen were disorderly.  Their presence restored