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Organization framed and taken an oath to stand by and support each other in all time.  Manage to control and secure all the offices of the county.  And the county Judge B.R. Harper, being one of them, and having under the law, the appointment and selection of the Grand Jury, fills it as did his predecessor with members of the jury, and so eludes and prevent their indictment whomsoever they will not, can not be punished.  No matter what the crime, nor when committed, Quite a number of men were persuaded over awed and driven into this company  who now would gladly expose their crimes and furnish proof of their guilt, if they could do so with any prospect of their punishment.
X My next report will be much fuller and more definite as to crimes.  Criminals and Sufferers, 
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a number of assaults and batteries and other murders of Freedmen have been committed and I have yet to hear of the first and least action, on the part of the civil authorities.
The feeling and disposition of the whites toward the blacks may be, I believe, fully illustrated by saying that, aside from old family ties of which there is really at heart, especially as to family negros, something of the kind with all old owners, there is no other feeling than that of deadly hostility, and their want of disposition to do them justice is shown by the number and character of cosy brot to the notice of Sub Assistant Commr and would be thus much more fully shown