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Civil officers pander to pubic prejudice against negro testimony, and all that is possible is done by them to protect the whites against justice. That all compliance with orders is "to get the damned Yankee bayonets out of the state," "and in order to quash the Freedmen's Bureau." That all plans proposed for labor &c by citizens are detrimental to the interests of the Freedmen, yet the members of the present Legislature have their hats full of these. That more crime is committed by the whites than the blacks. The citizens construe the liberal terms of Genl. Order No. 8 as evidence of the expiring throes of the Freedmen's Bureau. They say that they will now legislate for the Freedmen, and it is hoped they will do so giving them at lease justice. Thinks the Legislature loyal only through "policy" and does not expect the laws they will frame to be much to the interest of the Freedmen. That the insurrection rumors are mere stories, and denounces the deprival of the arms in possession of negroes. Has advised obedience to the laws as the best protection to the Freedmen & best guarantee of their rights