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who having no disposition to advance [[strikethrough]] themselves [[/strikethrough]] seek to prevent others from advancing by throwing obstacles in their way. They interfere with contracts in such a way as to cause dissatisfaction among the laborers and by such means injure the planter. With no desire to prove themselves law-loving & order obeying citizens, they imagine that by persecuting the freedmen, they are retaliating upon the Yankee. These people occasionally in a fit of pernicious drunkenness give expression of their hatred of the freedmen in various outrages but the prompt action of the civil authorities in arresting them and bringing them to punishment has to some extent dampened their ardor. They seem to think that by venting their spleen against the colored people, they relieve their pent up animosity towards the Northerner.

In the matter of the result of restoring to the Civil Courts jurisdiction in all cases in which colored persons are parties, I would say that from close observation I am convinced that much more good would have resulted from 

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