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if hard words can effect it, a bad state of feeling, not easily overcome, will soon be engendered. A Republican triumph would change the aspect of affairs most decidedly.

The freedman, desiring to do right, is placed in a, to him, desperate situation: between inclination and threatened starvation he knows not what to do.

During the  month three outrages upon the freedmen have been reported, viz: The riot at Drummondtown (of which a report was forwarded). The burning of the freedmen's Church at Modestown, (D.B. White's report on condition of affairs in 4th Division), and a case of shooting in Warwick Co. This latter case was referred to the Mil. Commissioner, who informs me he has ordered the arrest of the man who shot the freedman, and will have him brought to trial, and as the case can be clearly proved, see that he is punished as he deserves.

The presence of Bureau Officers is a restraint upon the turbulent whites, and a few cases severely dealt with, would effectually check them.