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to be but little regard to justice where the Freedmen are interested.  There are many honorable exceptions to this, but numerous crimes including murders are committed throughout the State of Arkansas against Freedmen and the Civil Authorities almost universally neglect to take action or inflict punishment. It is only necessary in many localities to charge that the negro was insolvent or used threatening language, to make the taking of his life, "justifiable", and in the same localities, it is only necessary to charge a white Union man with being a horse thief to make any outrage committed against him, "justifiable".
Since about the first of March last, crime against Union men and against Freemen has been and is rapidly increasing. This in my opinion has arisen from two causes:~ the withdrawal of troops, but mainly from the fact, that the less intelligent part of the people have arrived at the conclusion that Treason and opposition to the authority of the United States Government was very chivalrous and very respectable after all, and that any effort made to secure justice for the Freedmen is simply