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(I am happy to report) still continues to give satisfactory proof of their industry, sobriety, and thrift with the exception of the riot in Franklin, Tenn, on the 6th of July 1867 upon which special report was made and several other small ementas peace has prevailed, and the relations between white and col'd good. The excited and partisan feelings aroused by the recent elections has caused some trouble and injustice in the discharging and threatening of laborers to the number of 170. In Davidson Co. 163. Robertson Co. 2, Williamson Co. 5, Total 170.

In nearly every instance the freedmen after being out of employment for a day or two, have been taken back, or have got work in other places, so that the proscription practiced has not much injured the freedmen nor benefited the proscriptionists, from the way it has been frowned down by the sensible portion of the community these parties have in a measure regretted their