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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
HeadQuarters, Asst. Sub. Asst. Comr. 4th Div 6" Sub Dist Va. 
Warsaw Va March 31st 1868

Bvt Brig Genl O. Brown
Asst Comr. Dist of Virginia
Richmond Va.

General

In obedience to the requirements of Circular No 14 dated Hd. Qrs. Asst. Com. Dist. of Virginia, Richmond Va. January 29" 1866. I have the honor to transmit the following Report for the month of March 1868.

During the past month I have traveled over very nearly my entire District. I find the same state of feeling exists between the white and colored people as mentioned in my last report. In Westmoreland County the prejudice of the white against the Colored race is more intense many of the "Old Slave Owners" seem to be of the opinion that the party in power will be overthrown and their slaves restored to them or that they will be compensated for what they lost by and expended in the  "Confederate Cause" I heard many of these men complain that the negro was "too ignorant to vote." when these same persons are themselves, in many cases, unable to read or write, yet they vehemently oppose the education of the negro, and do all in their power to degrade him, are opposed to giving him protection under the law. it is my opinion that neither the courts nor offices of the law if they could possibly avoid it, would give the negro justice

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