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Gonzales Texas Aug. 4th 1866 Col. Sinclair Your communications of the 30th and 31st ults are recd. During this week I have been making quite an extensive trip threw this County. I find, as a rule, the white-people are disposed to deal fairly with the freed-people and the freed-people are disposed to work and comply with their contracts. But this like a great many other rules has a great many acceptions on both sides - I clip a few paragraphs from the "Gonzales Inquirer" just to show you that I still live, not that I appreciate its praise for it is a vile, treasonable sheet - With regard to sending freed-people out of town; I did arrest four or five freed-women who were apparently doing nothing and were acknowledged by whites and blacks to be