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0368

LB 140 vol 2, 1867

Bureau RF and AL Office A.S.
A.C. 2nd Div, 3d Sub District
Ashland Va. Dec 28 /67

Lieut P.R. Hambrick
S.A.C. 3d Sub Dist
Richmond Va
 
Lieutenant
In compliance with the provisions of Circular No 6, Bureau RF and AL Hd Qrs A.C. Richmond, Va. July 27th 1866, I have the honor to submit the following report with reference to the condition of Bureau Affairs in this Sub Dist. during the present month.
   
While the feeling of enmity which existed on the part of the whites toward the colored, awakened doubtless by the results of the election, seemed partially to have subsided at the time of my last report, I am still compelled to believe that with many it is too deeply seated to be readily removed.  The reasons are too apparent to require naming. While the negro was the property of the white man, he regarded it very tenderly. As long as there was a probability that he could be made his pliant tool in the exercise of his suffrage, he did not feel specially concerned, and even entertained a lingering attachment; but when it became evident that he would claim his manhood and act up to the true instincts of human

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