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Bureau R. F. + A. L. 
Office A S. A Commissioner
5th Div 4th Sub. Dist Va.
Culpeper, C. H. Va. 
August 31st 1868

Brig Genl O. Brown
Asst. Commissioner Dist of Va. 
Richmond Va. 
General
I have the honor to report in compliance with Circular No. 6 Hd. Qrs. Asst Commissioner State of Va. dated Richmond Va. January 29th 1866, the condition of Bureau affairs in Division for the month of August 1868. I have nothing new or important to report this month. The Freedmen are all doing very well, and very few complaints of any character from either white or black have been made to me during the month. Since the prospect for an election this fall in this State has been given up by all, political excitement among all classes has almost entirely subsided and consequently their are no threats from the whites of discharging the blacks from their employment on account of their political sentiments. I think the sentiment of the people and the press especially in this section has toned down from what it was at my last monthly report. 
But I am of the opinion they are governed in this action entirely from motives of policy and not a genuine desire to yeild in good faith the rights of franchise to the blacks unless they will cast votes for the choice of the Conservative party. This the freedmen do not feel inclined to do, because the National platform of that party has expressed in words too distinct for them not to understand that that party is decidedly opposed to the Reconstruction measures of Congress which gave them the right to exercise the elective franchise. Indeed it in plain words denounces the said acts of Congress as unconstitutional and void, this added to the defiant attitude of their