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In coming months, relying upon material aid from civil Officers, I trust the changes will be still most satisfactory. Personal violence and barbarous treatment towards Freedmen has been greatly checked. Whipping is far less common and on this front the Freedmen are becoming exceedingly sensitive and protest against it with all the  manly consciousness of free men. This is a step towards order and law, and, if needs be, the Freedmen will wait for months, with all the sublime patience which has characterized their action heretofore, for complete and impartial justice at the hands of the civil courts. 

The citizens are less bitter towards their late slaves and many of these begin to realize that they are dependent upon Freedmen for the culture of their broad fields another year, and are dispensed to treat them more kindly.

The Freedmen, on the other hand, are coming to understand their true  situation and are quietly going to work whenever labor is needed. It is seldom that he objects to wages offered, but what he demands is protection and frequently he objects to go into the country at a distance from our forces for fear of brutal treatment. 

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