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for the rest of the Freedmen and also refused to make any bargain with Mr. Taylor openly, themselves for the part of the land which they occupied, giving as a reason that their lives have been threatened by the people on the Farm in case they agree to pay Mr. Taylor rent.  The people on the Farm have an idea that the property has not really been restored and that the Bureau is trying to deceive and wrong them and refer to the fact that they were ordered off once and the order revoked as evidence that they have friends in Washington who disapprove of the action of the Bureau here and at Richmond.  Of their ideas it seems impossible to disabuse their minds.  They think that the Bureau