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collisions such as will help on a war of races. More complaints of abuses practiced upon freed people have been made during the month of Oct. than were made during the three months preceding.

All manner of petty outrages in the name of justice are perpetrated upon the freedman by the civil authorities, and with the limited power at my disposal, I am unable to procure redress for the victims. It is folly to turn a case of wrong doing over to the civil authorities for investigation, the freedman is put to the expense of employing a lawyer, and the case is almost invariably dismissed with costs put upon the pl'ff.

There is a fixed determination on the part of the majority of the late rebels that the freed people have an equal chance before the law, and so far as my knowledge