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the present condition of affairs, who will treat the freed people kindly, and are disposed to deal with them fairly and justly, but I regret to say they are the exception.

The feelings of the Blacks towards the White.
The feelings of the blacks towards the whites are very bitter. Many years have they associated together, their relative positions being far different from that of the present, and now, as the first dawn of intelligence is beginning to break in upon their dark minds, recrimination has taken possession of them: and, as a general thing, they look upon their former masters with bitter feelings: interested counsel has been among them, which has been productive of great evil. They have intense suspicions against the "Secesh."

Necessity for the Bureau.
The white citizens of this county, have frankly admitted to me, that, were it not for the Bureau, they would be unable to do any thing with the negro. Their Civil Government, exists only in name. No jail or place of confinement, a justice here and there, a meeting of the Court (it is called) at an old