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for wages, or respond to an appeal, while starving for want of wages?
   It may be claimed that Officers of the Bureau could watch such cases, and see that justice is done the Freedmen. I say it cannot be done.  Political power is against him and will destroy any officer who fearlessly does his duty in this way. He will be charged with interference with the civil law, with violating some constitution or some code, his acts will be so twisted and contorted before they reach Washington, that he will get nothing for his pains but censure and dismissal. 
   I can say without fear of contradiction that there has not occurred in this State one instance of interference with civil authorities on the part of the Military Officers, unless the civil authorities had first violated every law of justice, and carried out their peculiar ideas to such an extent as to arouse the indignation of every man bred in a country where