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These have been told to go and let the Government take care of them. As soon as emancipation took place, the planters generally went before the Orphans Court and had the colored children - their former slaves - bound to them - thus perpetuating the separation of families. They have been apprenticed under a section of the old code which provides that children born in apprenticeship shall also be bound. This law has been pronounced unconstitutional by one judicial tribunal of Md. but the decision is little regarded in certain parts of the state, and every obstacle is thrown in the way of parents recovering their children, by those who have them in possession, and by the local authorities.

Opposition to any interference by the Government to secure justice to the freedmen is general, with the exception of the loyal men I have named and finds expressions in the remark many times repeated by those with whom I conversed. "We have civil law - we can take care of the "niggers." 

The sentiment of disloyalty to the Government is widespread. I can not better show the truth of this than by the