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bad white men who are attempting to degrade colored labor; they alone are responsible for this state of things. Give the willing Freedmen the same encouragement now being given European paupers and the result can be easily forseen; some of this class of foreign emigrants who within the past year have been brought here by direction of the emigration society of Virginia have applied to this Office for rations; whether these cases are isolated ones or not I am unable to say; others have been reported as having become dissatisfied some of whom have left their situations. The arbitrary bearing of many whites towards Freedpeople still continues; acts of oppression and intrigue are as rife and numerous as they were during the preceding month; in fact there seems no abatement in the attempt of bad white men not only to make odious the congressional plan of reconstruction but to reduce the status of the colored race