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friend of Jeff Davis and Co., being his chief guide, and a "Col." Pool, Editor of the "Goldsboro Daily News"  a specimen of which is herewith enclosed, a most villianous, calumniating sheet, his chief admirer.
Before such Ex-parte examinations made of men who were not even on their oaths, and even if on oath can hardly be believed (my experience at least point that way), no man can escape conviction. What if he be a Union man dreaded and hated alike? To behold a tribunal of unrepenting traitors, whose hands are reeking yet with the blood of our slain, starved and maltreated soldiers, sitting in judgement over a loyal officer sent here to check them in their malicious assigns, is so novel a sight that we look in vain through the records of the world's history for a parrallel. A fair trial by his peers is, I should think, what a United States Officer stationed in rebeldom might expect.
Another mis-statement appears under the head, "Arbitrary power of the Bureau" General Steedman is pleased to say "At Goldsboro Captain Glavis imposed a fine on $25.00 on one freedman for stabbing another so severely as