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propose to keep the colored people quiet. An article in the St. Mary's Gazette - the organ of the Hon Benj. G. Harris, dated Aug. 7, after speaking regretfully of the withdrawal of the military protection says - "Let it (the Commissioners Court) appoint as many active young men in each district of the county as may be necessary, in its judgment, to enable the regular officers of the law to arrest violence therein, or to execute the civil process of our magistrates. The peace and safety of society demand the earliest possible re-enactment of many of the Statutes pertaining to negroes, which were repealed by the late legislature, and most especially that section of the law which debars the negro from the privilege of carrying murderous weapons."

It might be shown, were it within the province of this report, that the "active young men" who are proposed as conservators of the public peace would be zealous enough in the work of disarming the "niggers" and "taking care" of them, - perhaps as much so as if they had never learned warfare under the tuition of rebel leaders, and