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In the order named in the Letter of Instructions referred to, I remark.

1st: In reference to the general condition of the freedmen. I am of the opinion that the general condition of the freedmen has not improved on the average. during the past year. The course of the whites - that is, a certain portion of them, in annoying them in every conceivable way. robbing them in the division of crops. subjecting them to litigation or a settlement on the terms of the whites. tends to drive the colored man to seek what he considers a less annoying mode of obtaining a living. a settlement on a small patch of land. where he can eke out an existence without a conflict with bad men. This is tending to make the condition of thousands of them worse and worse. There is a malignant spirit manifested by many whites since the negro was placed on an equality with them at the polls. and they manage to make the condition of some of them intolerable. 

2nd:- In reference to full and complete Justice being awarded the negro.

'Tis as easy to change the color of the African as to effect this. I as firmly believe as I believe any apparent truth, that when Military protection to the freedmen is