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Republican party he would be turned off from his employer's every opportunity has been improved to instruct the Freedmen that they would be protected in the full enjoyment of all their rights. The Freedmen will not politically affiliate with or confide in their old masters, unless forced to, This feeling on the part of the whites is so general that there are some persons fear the industries of the Sub. District may be affected, and the Freedmen be the greatest suffers. There is another element in the county which is fast developing its self and [[?]] as fair to have a very important bearing upon the interests of the Freedmen. During the year, there were a few union men who were firmly loyal. They organized themselves into a secret society and bound themselves by solemn oaths, to support the laws of the United States, to aid and assist each other, and to bring to justice by all lawful means, those who were guilty of treason.