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against the Freedmen.  Report says all or nearly all, are working now. Col Brown's Address has been worth to this County more than a Regiment of Soldiers.  The feeling towards the Blacks on the part of the best citizens has much improved, also, since the last report.  A large majority of the citizens are trying to do and are doing the fair thing with the Freedmen.
   Nearly all the opposition I have is fromthe public officers, Wyatt S. Beazley, County Clerk, and Benjamin Robinson, County Sheriff.  These men do not openly oppose the Authorities, but they go around secretly and growl about the U.S. Government, get up false rumors and reports about the Officers of the Government, misrepresent the action of the Government and will not contract with Freedmen and dissuade others from so doing.  Had it not been for the good citizens of the County and such men as John G. Dulaney and T.J.D. Eddins, (members of Freedmens Court) George W. Shearman, Thomas JOhnson, J.G. Saunders, J.G.E.D. Davis and  others, who stood by the Government and its Officers, through the influence of Wyatt S. Beazley, County Clerk and Benjamin Robinson, County Sheriff, I should have been forced either to abandon my position here or call on troops for defence.  But the good citizens aforesaid have come to my support and the Sheriff and Clerk above mentioned are left again to their mutterings and plottings against the Government and the Government Authorities.
   The Constables George L. Teel [[Tell]] and James D. Henning have, in very instance, cooperated with me and offered their assistance in