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Bureau of R.F. & A.L.
Office Asst. Supt Sub Dist Amherst Co.
7th. District, Va.
Lynchburg, Va., June 30th. 1866.

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown

General:
Pursuant to Circular No. 6, C.S. from your Hd. Qts., I have the honor to submit the following Report, on Bureau Affairs, &c. 

The state of feeling existing between the Whites and Freedmen. I am sorry to say betrays itself in an increasing acrimony on the part of the former, towards the latter, who, as a general thing, are well meaning and submissive. 

There is a growing desperation on the part of a large class of unprincipled Farmers, despite of contracts voluntarily made and entered into by themselves, to turn off their hands, on the slightest, and often without any pretexts whatever, so soon as the crops, in which they are usually more or less interested, begin to mature; and a word of protest is almost sure to invoke the most violent castigations; while the vilest vituperative abuse, accompanied freely by threats of death, is the rule, and not the exception: and to the latter there must, at no time, be any rejoinder for an impression seems to prevail in the minds of the Whites, that they are privileged in this particular, and that a Freedman once having bound himself by a contract, he becomes, for the time being, subservient to their machination or convenience

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