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Counties of the Western Shore of this State confined chiefly to two classes of Complaints, the one of unprovoked Assaults and batteries to which individuals among them have been subject, and the other concerning the binding out or indenturing of their infant children against their will -  

Col. Eaton refers to these transactions as abuses such as no race can be expected to receive passively, and suggests the propriety of sending into this section of the State a Military force, and that "the slighted possible exercise of its authority would sufficiently stay the abuses until the Legislature of the State can abolish the State laws which cover their perpetration" - It is scarcely necessary for me to refer to the unpleasant and excited condition of public feeling which the introduction at this time [[strikeout]] to [[/strikeout]] of the Military power of the Government in the administration of the affairs of a loyal State would necessarily occasion among her people - 
So long as the war existed, our loyal Citizens with few exceptions welcomed the presence of the Military