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to  have come to this gushing pass at a distance from this Post, mainly since the removal of Lieut. Roth  from the C.H. the impression prevailing that the Bureau was in a measure withdrawn from the County I subjoin three sworn statements of freedmen. In the case of attempted rape (no. 3.) a warrant was issued for assault and battery and the matter arranged without trial by  the accused agreeing to pay fifteen dollars to the woman There are many other cases of less importance that I do not deem it necessary to report, which [[strikeout]] tend to [[/strikeout]] show an apathy in the feeling of white people with regard to wrongs committed against freedmen.  Affairs are in a much heated state in Orange County where there  has been an Asst. Supt. constantly.   It is not strange that there should be such a difference of feeling in two adjoining counties when it is remembered how little the masses of whites and blacks read, and are governed by a knowledge of the

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