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and Freedmen in this County, if they would prefer to retention of the Bureau, or its abolition, and in no case have I found a single person interrogated willing as they say under present circumstances have it abolished.

The Whites say that by its abolition they could not enforce Civil Law among the Freedmen, and the Freedmen think by its abolition they fear they could not get justice, and that they would be oppressed.

In some cases I see a growing feeling of arogance, and I may almost say of insubordination among some of the returned Rebels, who have even gone so far I hear as to threaten that things would not last this way long with them, and that they would soon bring about an entire change, but I am enclined to think this feeling is confined to the few, who take very good care not to let it come to any open demonstration, I am however of the opinion, that were it not for the

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