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County (Alexandria) closed July 13th 1867. but the work incident to making up the lists &c has occupied considerable of my time during the balance of the month.

The feeling between the whites and the Freedmen is good. and they harmonize together in ordinary business with very little difficulty, some trouble however is caused by ambitious office seekers, using their endeavors to excite the freedmen against their old masters, but this is a trouble time alone can settle; Until the colored people have become educated sufficiently to mix in the political arena, without, as they are at present, being led by designing politicians, they will be liable to suffer from imposition from those who claim to be their best friends, they are in general a too-confiding race, more apt to place confidence in a wordy fellow of no merit, than in truer friends of quieter temperaments. 

There have been no cases of injustice toward the Freedmen by the civil authorities in this Sub. Dist. to my knowledge, the authorities knowing of a truth that the Bureau will enforce the laws for the protection of the freedmen have too much good sense, even if they had the desire, to wish to draw upon themselves the power of the military law. 

Labor is very plenty and any person desiring it can obtain work; I am not aware of a single case in 

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