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to one of freedom, are so conducting themselves as to give the fullest assurance of their determination and their ability to become an industrious, intelligent, thrifty and law-abiding people - With education and the protection of the laws, they seem capable of becoming intelligent and useful members of the communities in which they reside - Unfortunately, thus far, justice in many cases has been witheld, or grudgingly meted out to them by the civil authorities. As a consequence there is a wide spread disinclination amongst them to bringing their claims before the civil authorities. Many claims also, small in themselves, and yet important to the poor freedmen, are not brought forward at all before tribunals in which they have so little confidence, and the method of whose proceedings, they so imperfectly understand - 
It is particularly in reference to these minor cases, that the discontinuing of the Freedmen's Courts has been a misfortune to them - The presence of the Bureau, however, and the possibility that the Freedmens Courts may be reestablished, has forced the authorities to give justice to the freedmen, in many cases, from the sheer desire of preventing the re-establishment