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classes a prejudice often amounting to hatred exists, which only time can eradicate. The conduct of this class may be restrained by the wholesome enforcement of law, but cannot be rectified by officers of this Bureau. This has been clearly demonstrated in the States which have been reconstructed. My officers and Agents have had very little power, when not supported by military, or local civil authority, to protect the exercise of the right of suffrage, or other rights given by the new Constitutions and recently enacted laws of the state. In the unreconstructed states this protection can still be extended in a more summary way by the military commander through his officers, under the authority of the Reconstruction Acts. All that is needed is a good set of officers with the right man in command. 
In your State, the admirable system of military commissioners inaugurated by General