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acted the part of the Christian toward the colored people and given them aid & Encampment & Employment at fair wages & with kind treatment

In those cases of Physical outrages before mentioned I have reason to believe, they were done by men who are regarded as lawless & irresponsible & who under the influence of Spiritous Liquor, have never yet learned to behave themselves & their acts are condemned by all good men, of our County.

The freemen and women & all settling down to Employment [[?]] in some cases Employment on a home is hard to get for those women & helpless children before named, the husband of these women are in the army, now, and are not here to relieve them. The colored people will shortly organise [[organize]] the school & I hope it will go on unmolested, & I think will be unmolested, unless it should be by these abandoned lawless men whose chief employment is in the grog shop & gambling saloon

General, I wrote to you some time since giving you some information & the reason why. I had not as yet accepted the agency here & wished an answer on your views on the matter
I find in the papers last night that our Superintendent has now before it a resolution, the purport of which is to disfranchise any man who now holds a State office that shall accept an agency for the freedmans Bureau in Ky This resolution of Course will pass. I suppose as