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My experience here has also strengthened the connection in my mind, that the suspension of the "Freedmens Courts." resulted in serious injury to the interests of the freedpeople - and has made some of them suspicious of the sincerity of the governmental authorities.- They cannot comprehend why their assumed friends should place their most vital interests in the hands of their avowed enemies.- and I doubt very much whether the most intelligent colored people in this State believe it possible for a freedman to get justice in the highest Courts.- Wherever I have been in Va. I have observed this feeling of distrust and when I meet with a colored conservative I am not surprised that his identification with that party is traceable to the fact that he considers himself safer with an old acquaintance, than with a new friend especially when he is referred

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