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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and A.L.
Office Asst. Supt. Albemarle Co. Va
Charlottesville Va. 28th February 1866.

Colonel Brown.
Ass't Commiss'r R.F. and AL.
Richmond Va.

Colonel,
Pursuant to Instructions contained in Circular Letter, dated 29th Ultimo, from your Head Quarters, I have the honor to submit the following remarks, but at the same time to acquaint you that, in as much as I did not take charge of this Sub-District, until very late in the last month, I am unable to submit a Comparative statement of the feelings existing between the White population and the Freedmen in this County.

For the most part I find that the Whites, although professing, theoretically, their submission to the Laws of the United States, as regards their relationship to Freedmen, are very unwilling to reduce this submission into practice, and invariably prove that their acts belie their Professions. The plain fact that Freedmen are free and not subject to them cannot be realised by the Whites, and they are constantly using, and carrying into effect, their illogical maxim and argument, "If the Freedman, the man whom I employ, support and pay, will not do as I tell him, if he, on my scolding him, "sauces" me, am I not justified in having recourse to physical power and striking him." They have seen

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