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past week in the county court, and had I been one of the jury I could not have desided differently substantial justice was done in every case.

The white and colored unite in the statement that if the Government should withdraw the Bureau Agent, there would be no peace for the Negro for they say it is the Military that a large minority fear and not their love of justice for the Freedman.

The commonwealth attorney for this county told me last Thursday that he would see justice done when within his power, for he did not like to have a case reported to the Military Authorities and said that in all criminal cases if they were brought near him so that he could attend to it he would be glad so to do. he said the people have got into the habit of employing council to defend them before a single magistrate and the white man was sure to be acquitted if not attorney appeared against them, he wound up by saying "if there were no agent to look after them the negro stood a sorry chance."

The white people are indifferent about the schools for the colored and the colored are to poor to do much themselves, in this county there are only about two hundred and fifty attending school and there aught to be upwards of two thousand or about two to onw.

I know of only two Freedmen that own