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been due? Even giving them credit for an African's ordinary sense and attention to business? - Certainly not. The means of redress were at hand. An Agent of the F.B. has been here continuously for two and a half years. We need not further pursue the subject. The conviction will force itself upon every honorable and intelligent mind that the interfere of the Bureau Agent in this matter was an arbitrary act of military despotism which cannot meet the approval of higher officers and he has made use of his power to shield and shelter sectional friends from the debts due Southern Creditors. This is the universal sense of the people of this County. If it be a fact that the negroes had laid in claims why forbid the sale? Why not allow the sale to proceed and stop the proceeds in the Trustee's hands until an investigation could be had? Because the property was of a mixed character and perishable nature (being entirely movable and personal property) and will depreciate every day in value. Then why wait until the day and hour of sale to prohibit it? No our hearts

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