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Genl. Gregory since assuming his functions as Com'r of Texas has labored zealously and unremittingly in the discharge of his delicate duties, and seems to be fully impressed with their importance to the welfare of the freedmen and to the interests of the country:  but it is not to be disguised that he is exceedingly unpopular with the whites to the injury of that influence for good which it is so important he should exert -- this unpopularity is to some extent inseparable, perhaps, from the full and fearless discharge of his peculiar duties, but I am forced to believe it is not entirely due to this -- that those duties might be efficiently performed without incurring so great a measure of dislike on the part of the white population.

The main causes of complaint against