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& impressively upon the tyranny & oppression of the present Gov't. I & the orderly was pointed at as the "damned Yankee Bureau man" & after their speakers were done some of them who had heard me addressing the Freedmen came to me & asked me if I wouldn't speak to the whites. I told them I was no speaker but would instruct them in the law & their duty to the colored man, if they wished me. They assented and I mounted the stage & had not said a dozen words before "Lets leave" "lets dont listen to the damned Yankee" saluted my ears. those who did not join in the cry laughed at it as a good joke. I told them that it was hardly the treatment I expected still I had come among them to perform a certain duty & that duty I should do without fear & without favor that if they were honest law abiding men I would protect & uphold them; if the contrary I should punish them; that I had come to see that law was established & to protect the representatives of the law as long as they done their duty & remained true to their oaths of office &c  Some of the Negros found the orderly off by himself & told him they were afraid to be seen talking with me as the whites would kill them, & it is a fact that a colored man who tried to start a school