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them in one way or another.

3d.  There is still another Class who are not willing to allow the Freedmen any rights or privileges and treat them in a cruel and inhumane manner whenever there is an opportunity.  If they hire them they refuse to pay for their labor and cheat them in weight and measures and try to overreach them in every possible way.  The general feeling between the Whites and Blacks is not good.  The Whites call them "Niggers" before their faces, call them indolent, lazy and worthless and are opposed to their having Schools, say 'nigger can't learn'.  The Freedmen are working well and doing the best they can under the circumstances, consequently feel indignant at such remarks.  This is one cause of the bad state of feeling between the Blacks and Whites.

4th  Very few of the Freedmen are breaking their written Contracts.  In a few instances they have left and when ordered back by the Superintendent invariably go.

5th  Since the Veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill many have become dissatisfied and alarmed as the Whites tell them the Yankee Officers will soon be gone and President Johnson is going to make Slaves of them again.  On being assured that such is not the fact, they go quietly back to work again.

6th.  There is little or no open opposition by the Citizens to the regularly constituted authorities of the U.S. Government or R.F. & A.L.

I am Sir, Very Respectfully,
Your Most Obedient Servt.,
A B Sweeney Lt 8th V R C -
Supt. of Greene Co. Va.
R.F. & A.L.  

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