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"of the Government arising in the minds of the thinking class of the Community.  We may hope that its influence will soon reach, and favorably affect that lower order of persons by whom ill feeling is nursed and trouble created."

I quote from the report of Lieut C.W. Corliss, sent to the upper part of the State in the neighborhood of Gen'l N.R. Forrest's plantation.

"The Freedmen are getting along very well and are usually at work, and well satisfied with their contracts, which are liberal, if the provisions are carried out at the end of the year.

The citizens do not call to their aid the civil law, but depend too much on the Bureau to settle plantation disturbances.

While there is a large number willing to assist the Freedmen and deal fairly by them, many would not scruple to oppress and defraud the colored people, if it was not for the existence of the Bureau."