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was it alleged that he had not done so promptly and boldly, and in the only case which they brought forward of supposed ill-treatment of one of them on his part, they admitted on his explanation of the matter, that he took the only course open to him.  I found in Mr. Smith's office ample evidence of his interest in the freedmen, and of his attention to their wants, such as a letter of April 7, calling for medical attendance in their behalf, of April 14 in regard to schools, of June 4 about confined freedmen &c, and a box of clothing and books from his father, an officer in the church of Dr. Buddington of Brooklyn, with the promise that some money would soon be sent. 

The second of the causes mentioned was the fact that the Negroes had been led to believe advantage being taken of their suspicious disposition and already existing prejudices, that the letter so extensively used, said that they were none of them any better than the negroes mentioned under the head of "Union Men here' as being in jail.  How such an interpretation of it is possible it is difficult to see, but so shrewdly had it been instilled into them, that it was only by the most persistent