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and polite and generally very comfortably situated, very, very few if any idlers, and not so much desire as I have seen to hang about the towns and villages, and this county may be set down as remarkably quiet, and in conversation with the white citizens I think I perceive the desire on their part to live up to and support the laws of this state.  Although many of these laws lately passed are much against their prejudices, and for myself can say I desire no more really kind attention or politeness than has been shown me since my arrival among them, and I think they are also beginning to feel the necessity of treating the freedmen with kindness and in paying them up promptly for their labor, as those who done so last year are getting plenty of laborers, while those who did not find considerable trouble in so doing.

I would respectfully bring to the notice of the Assistant Commissioner the trial against Elisha Stanley,