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in their relations, and the shortness of the time since it was first realized. I find among the most intelligent citizens a readiness to acquiesce in the new order of things. They recognize the freedom of their former slaves. They re patient [[crossed-out]] and [[/crossed-out]], kind, and disposed to deal fairly with them as free laborers. There is a class however that is greatly chagrined at the change which has been wrought. They are reluctant to recognize emancipation as a fact. They find it difficult to control their own tempers, and not infrequently, for very slight provocation. They maltreat the poor freedmen. 

I may here mention one instance of barbarity. The person upon whom it was inflicted having come under my own observation The case was that of a young woman. She had been working upon a plantation Water Valley. some property had been stolen from her employers They thought that she knew where it was secreted. She was asked to divulge but she said that she knew nothing about it