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Virginia Military Institute and an Ex Rebel officer) I am informed that upon all occasions in alluding to the colored people and their actions of thirty years ago, He mentioned them as the Freedmens Bureau and did it in such a manner as to draw from his auditors shouts of laughter and bursts of applause__ Which you may be assured were not prompted by any good feeling for the Bureau or its officers__ And I may go further and say or from any feeling of love for the National Government__

I enclose you a copy of a document received from Branch and Tackett this A.M. which I am unable to classify and do not know what important fact or information they wished to convey to me__ The fact of their having struck me is patent to the town and I have reason to beleive they boast of having done so__

In conclusion let me say that I am hearing cases that come in from one mile to twenty - and many of these cases make it evident that great injustice is practiced upon the Freedmen.  I therefore am bound to beleive if such wrongs exist so near my office still greater wrongs exist in sections of the county where I have never been and where the distance is to great for the Freed people to come to my

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