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and if they unite both will be greatly benefited. This party seems to be increasing in strength and numbers but have not yet taken that open manly stand which their principals as incidentally developed would justify. If these Unionist and the Freedmen cooperate they can hardly fail of having their interests represented in future legislative assemblies so as to secure for them a better enjoyment of their rights and privileges than they can expect, if they do not cooperate. But few complaints of violation of contract are made to these Head Quarters by either the whites or blacks and they have been amicably adjusted as soon as reported. Some complaints have been made that minor orphan children of Freedmen have not been properly treated, and taught in compliance with the statute which requires them to be taught reading writing &c. The parties being called upon to answer these complaints have at first denied that they were under