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of all the late trouble and excitement in our County; all of which is now happily adjusted and settled.  He has given our County and our people a reputation abroad, and especially with the U.S. officers below, for assassination, murder, sedition, rebellion, disloyalty and for having desperadoes who regard neither law civil or military. Man or devil, which is a calumny as black as it is false. He has attempted to magnify, for base personal considerations, and to bring the good people of this County into trouble, a trifling personal difficulty with himself into treason, rebellion, attempted assassination and opposition to the Freedmans Bureau and the U.S. authorities generally.  We assert (and who challenge the test by impartial investigation) that there is not a more loyal, law-abiding, peaceable people in Texas or the South, than the people of Leon County. Amongst us law and the course of Justice has not been interrupted.  Gov Hamilton made a happy selection of provisional officers, and they have been obeyed and respected; and no event has happened to mar the harmony of the community, except such as are directly traceable to the improper conduct of Mr Inge. There is no antipathy to the Freedman's Bureau. If properly administered, all sensible men acknowledge its utility. All the people desire is an officer who