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of the most respectable citizens of the place who have seen Mr. Smith almost daily since he first went there and who testified unequivocally not only to his uniform sobriety but that they had never seen him intoxicated, and that on one of the occasions specified by Mr. Lawson they knew him not to have been.  I consider this charge to have been wholly refuted.  

In regard to the dissatisfaction of the colored people spoken of in the petition I found that it did very generally exist, traceable I believe to two causes, the first of which is Mr. Smith's manner, of which the freedpeople, the more prominent of whom I met, complained a good deal.  Mr. Smith's manner is naturally curt, and an experience of nearly four years in the army, where he was pre-eminent in his command as a strict disciplinarian has perhaps added somewhat to it, and the colored people are not accustomed to his short, prompt way of doing business.  I think all misunderstanding on the ground will be avoided in the future.  

In no case where he had been called on to act in behalf of the freedmen