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of the colored man's interest, and while the Bureau Officers are deprived of Judicial powers.

Rumors of contemplated insurrections have also been circulated to an amazing extent in some localities, but upon personal investigation, I have, in every instance, found no substantial foundation for the rumor even - and that the evils of which complaint was made, existed only in the imaginations of maliciously disposed whites. No people under the circumstances could be more peaceable, law obeying and order loving, than are the Freedmen in this Sub-District, and whenever or wherever any turbulent or other spirit is manifested looking toward violence or to disturbances of the public peace, I have found that they are traceable to something for which the white man is responsible. Every thing susceptible in the slightest degree, of being construed into an evidence of a cherished disposition on the part of the Freedmen, to precipitate a conflict of the races, is siezed upon and exaggerated for mischievous purposes by those who, in some cases, profess to be the colored man's friend.

In every single instance to which my attention 

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