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acquaintances among the citizens or freedmen, that it is quite impossible for me to report reliably from the sources.
I believe some apprehensions have been entertained by the freedmen of this place, that upon the withdrawal of the garrison, outrage would be committed by lawless persons, who were only deterred heretofore by the presence of armed men. I am not sufficiently acquainted with the community to know if these fears be well founded, but I incline to think from all I can see and hear, that they are probably the result of threats, uttered to frighten merely, and not as notice of intended violence.
One of the teachers of the schools for the instruction of colored children, has informed me that he and his associates are apprehensive that the students of the university, the night before their dispersion and departure, may attack their schools and do them injury. I can not ascertain that there is any just cause for such

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