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does it as a matter of charity to a great extent otherwise the freedman in depending upon one not familiar with the forms and requirements of the law, suffer measurably in not being well represented. Under the present condition of affairs if a liberal fee could be secured to counsel for the purpose of properly prosecuting such causes in nearly all the cases justice could be obtained for the freedmen.

J.H. Gregory, Agent for the counties of Maury, Marshall and Williamson Tenn. reports May 1st 1867. There are a number of cases in which the freedmen cannot get the Justices to issue warrants or the constables to serve them after they are issued. The officers make some excuse send the freedmen to some other parties. 
Planters are also discharging their hands for belonging to the Loyal League. Others are threatening to turn them off, so that labor is in a more unsettled state than it has been since the free labor system was established. Some of the freedmen are leaving places where they have been at work for four months and had their crops mostly in and seeking new homes. Many of