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This prompt and cheerful cooperation of the Magistrates with me in preserving peace and quietness between the classes and in securing the freedmen against the imposition and injustice of the lawless whites has been productive of a vast deal of good to all concerned It has done much toward discouraging the unkind feeling between the races and I daily observe evidence of the fact that the freedmen are more cheerful and more industrious and the planters more just and forbearing toward the freedmen. But it must be confessed that there is not that state of feeling existing between the classes notwithstanding the favorable changes which have taken place in the last few months which would justify the withdrawal of Bureau