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quell the disturbance, he succeeded except in the case of this woman whose character he no doubt knew, (for she had been owned by Col Burnett who says she was always a turbulent, mischievous and unruly slave.) She fell upon Mr. Montgomery with her abuse and he, in the discharge of a duty the law imposes upon him, knocked her down, and for this you have him brought to this place and fine him one hundred dollars, the highest fine, that by the laws of the state, can be imposed on a citizen for the most agravated cases of assault and battery. You cannot claim that this was an agravated case, but on the contrary all the circumstances were of a mittigating character. The case of Mr. Brown is even a greater outrage but I forbear to enter into a discussion of this case.

The unlimited power of the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau gives to these agents unlimited powers to do wrong, to impose fines for their own benefit. There is no supervising officer to ascertain what citizen has or has not been drawn up and made to pay the money earned by the "sweat of his brow"