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of suffrage for the latter for such is not the fact. Capital and labor are so evenly balanced in the section that the former could not dispense with the latter without serious injury. Furthermore, the fear of future legislation has a good effect in counteracting any oppressive action of this nature, and these facts alone probably prevent the discharge of the freedmen to some extent, and not any political change in the views of the whites in the county. One colored person has been arrested by the civil authorities, for larceny and is now held in jail to await a hearing at the next term of the county court. 

I am able to report favorably as to the cause of temperance among the colored people of the county. 

I am General
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Servt
Newton Whitten
1st Lieut V.R.C.
A.S.A Com'r

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-21 12:09:58 V.R.C. = Veteran Reserve Corps